社会科学研究中的文献综述:原则、结构和问题

Literature Review in Social Sciences Research: Principle, Structure and Issue

文献综述是对文献进行查找、阅读、分析,并对它们进行总结、归纳和评论的完整过程。本文对文献综述的性质与作用予以说明,并对查找、选择和阅读文献等撰写的前期准备工作进行了介绍。明确文献综述的内容与要求、撰写原则和基本结构是决定撰写成功与否的关键所在。

Literature review is a full process of searching, reading, analyzing, then summarizing and generalizing, and reviewing literatures. This article makes a description of quality and values of literature review. Then it introduces some earlier ready stages, including searching, choosing and reading literature. It shows that the key of success is that we should definite the contents, requests, writing principles and basic system of literature review. The author must lay emphasis on that criticalness is the internal request of literature review, at the same time that we also need theories guiding.