Sociology Subject Guide

Indexes

   General

Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete A multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering indexing, abstracting and some full-text. Also includes image collections of people, places, historical photos, and more.

Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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LexisNexis Statistical Allows users to search summaries, then link to the full-text of selected statistical publications on LexisNexis Statistical and government web sites.

SocINDEX Full-Text SocINDEX™ with Full Text is a comprehensive, high quality sociology research database. Extensive scope and content, this resource provides users with a wealth of useful information encompassing a broad spectrum of sociological study. More than 1,918,000 records are featured with subject headings from a 19,300+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. Informative abstracts for more than 845 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895 are accessible. Data has been mined from more than 670 "priority" coverage journals as well as from 2,800 "selective" coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources is included as well as searchable cited references. All sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study are included, such as abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

E-Sources

   Journals

Annual Reviews  Author and Keyword searching in Annual Review of Sociology to retrieve citations and abstracts.

AnthroSource AnthroSource is the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public.

JSTOR JSTOR Is an archive of scholarly journals, including 37 journals covering sociology, 9 covering population studies and 19 covering statistics.  Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

ScienceDirect ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier Science journals to one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature. Elsevier Science purchased Academic Press, publishers of the IDEAL Project journals.

Full-text access is only to those marked as subscribed. Full text is provided in Adobe Acrobat format for most articles.

SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including sociology (formerly Kluwer Journals).

   Reference Works

Cambridge Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS): Millennial Online Edition This reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

Family Studies Abstracts Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, and Family Relations.

eHRAF - World Cultures The eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life.  The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Encyclopedia of Social Work is a new edition covering pivotal areas of research such as demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. Four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work are arranged in an A-Z format. Each article is cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide readers to primary sources and key scholarly works. A comprehensive index and topical outline is provided.

ICPSR is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. It provides social science data and resources for researchers.

   Books

netLibrarycollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

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About the Catalog

Internet Sites

• American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).

• Census 2000 Gateway Explore data from the U.S. Census Bureau on population, education, housing, business, and geography.

• Electronic Journal of Sociology is a refereed journal designed for rapid feedback on current and proposed projects.

• Gallup Poll Gallup has studied human nature and behavior for more than 70 years. Gallup's reputation for delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel is the cornerstone of the organization.

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Under the section, Global Issues, can be found subsections on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and the World Food Situation.

• PollingReport.com provides trends in American public opinion.

• Population Index indexes information of interest to demographers. The entire database for 1986-1999 is available online and can be searched by author, subject matter, geographical region and year of publication.

• Popline is the world's largest bibliographic reproductive health database.

• Resources for Evaluation and Social Research Methods This site links to on line books, manuals and guides about evaluation and social research methods, such as surveys, focus groups, and so on. There are also links to sites about presenting data, and free software such as statistical, office suites, spreadsheets and more.

• The SocioWeb is a searchable site with interesting links to other sociology internet sites.

• Southern Poverty Law Center The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups.

• Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States, designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts. Now searchable with a Google-powered search box. Excel spreadsheets allow site users to manipulate data.

• Understanding Our World Today This site has the World Social Change reports, which review major world economic, demographic, social, and political changes. Data used to develop the reviews, as well as a review of theories of change, are provided. Links to web sites with theory, research and data on global social, political and economic change are available.

• Yahoo on Sociology has selective sociology resources.

• WWW Virtual Library: Demography and Population Studies

• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology

About the Department

   Citing Sources

Refer to the following book on Reserve:

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition (BF76.7 .P83 2001)

or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct citation format for APA, Chicago, MLA, and others.