Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide

Written by two highly-respected social scientists, this book provides an overview of systematic literature review methods.

Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed knowledge. The systematic review is a scientific tool that can help with this difficult task. It can help, for example, with appraising, summarizing, and communicating the results and implications of otherwise unmanageable quantities of data.

The books:

• Outlines the rationale and methods of systematic reviews
• Gives worked examples from social science and other fieldss
• Applies the practice to all social science discipliness
• Requires no previous knowledge, but takes the reader through the process stage by stages
• Draws on examples from such diverse fields as psychology, criminology, education, transport, social welfare, public health, and housing and urban policy, among others
• Includes detailed sections on assessing the quality of both quantitative, and qualitative research; searching for evidence in the social sciences; meta-analytic and other methods of evidence synthesis; publication bias; heterogeneity; and approaches to dissemination

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Petticrew, Mark; Roberts, Helen

ISBN:

978-1-40-512110-1

Specialty:

• Psychology

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

352

Publication Year:

2005