Course Guides
Databases
Scholarly, peer-reviewed journals are available from our subscription databases. Listed below are suggestions for starting your research. A complete list of our Digital Resources are available from the Databases link.
- Academic Search Premier [INFO]
- Contemporary Women’s Issues [INFO]
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV & V Collection (full-text backfiles) [INFO]
- CQ Researcher (all full-text) [INFO]
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context [INFO]
Books and More
The Library catalog is a collection of books and other print materials, such as videos/DVDs, music CDs, and scores. The catalog offers a variety of searches – Keyword, Subject, Author, Title, and Call Number. Examples of searches are below:
- Subject search for Deviant behavior
- Subject search for Environmentalism
- Subject search for Ethnic relations
- Subject search for Social classes
- Subject search for Social conflict
- Subject search for Social groups
- Subject search for Social systems
- Subject search for Sociology
- Subject search for Toleration
Reference Material
Reference sources may provide a good starting point for research and include encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and statistical sources. Some key resources are listed below. Additional titles may be located by seaching the Library catalog
- ASA style guide / American Sociological Association
- International bibliography of sociology
- Sociology : a guide to reference and information sources
- The Blackwell dictionary of sociology : a user’s guide to sociological language
- A dictionary of sociology
- The Max Weber dictionary : key words and central concepts
- Encyclopedia of sociology
- Survey of social science
- Encyclopedia of disability
- Encyclopedia of social theory
- Guide to graduate departments of sociology
- The Sage encyclopedia of social science research methods
- The social science encyclopedia
- International encyclopedia of the social sciences
- ASA style guide / American Sociological Association
Web Sites
- The SocioWeb
- Sprawlcity
“A website about consumption growth and population growth and their roles in the urban sprawl that destroys natural habitat and farmland around U.S. Cities” - The Sociolog
Julian Dierkes’ Comprehensive Guide to Sociology Online - A Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
- Social Statistics Briefing Room
- Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis
- Dead Sociologists’ Society
More…
- Ask a Librarian
- Subject librarian: Alice Staples
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