Topic: Literature Review
1 After reviewing the material on the Literature Review posted above, return to your annotated bibliography, or your last assignment, and begin developing “categories” to help you to organize your sources.
Post one category below and list several sources that might fill that category. Remember that some sources may fall into more than one category.
#2 Gerontology is a highly interdisciplinary social science, as it draws on research, theories, and ideas from many different fields to better address the topic of aging. This week’s material asked you to examine aging from the perspectives of the five other social sciences we have examined in this course.
Choose two of the resources and answer the following questions: https://nobaproject.com/modules/aging https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002274
What two social science fields do the resources you chose represent?
What does each source add to your understanding of the issues in gerontology?
How would it affect your understanding of this topic if you looked at it from one perspective?
What are the consequences if a social scientist has incomplete knowledge of a topic?
