Subject Guide: Sociology


Article Databases and Indexes | Reference Books  |Web Sites  |  Periodicals

This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for the study of Sociology.

Primary Sociology Databases

Academic Search Complete (via EbscoHost)
An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines, including sociology.

SocioINDEX with Full Text (via EbscoHost)
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This database also includes full text for books and monographs, and full text for conference papers.

Annual Review of Sociology, 1975-2002 (via JSTOR)
Comprehensive, authoritative, and critical reviews written by the world's leading scientists.  Library subscribes to the JSTOR database that includes this journal. Click directly on the journal year and then the specific issue to retrieve all records indexed for that issue. Current issues are not available in JSTOR but are located at call number 301.05 An78, 2^nd floor of the A. Frank Smith Library.

Other Social Sciences Databases:

JSTOR
PsycINFO
PsycARTICLES
ERIC
ScienceDirect
ICPSR – Social Science Data
Social Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
Social Sciences Abstracts (via FirstSearch)

For a full description of the contents of each database, go to the Databases A-Z page.

Databases with Focus:  by Ethnicity, Class, or Identity Group:

Ageline
Alternative Press Index
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Ethnic Newswatch
JSTOR
Women’s Studies International

For a full description of the contents of each database, go to the Databases A-Z page.

Use subject encyclopedias and dictionaries to locate background information on your topic, to identify key articles or books, and to get a sense of potential words or phrases for searching databases.

The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
REFERENCE, 1^st floor, 301.03 C144

Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods
REFERENCE, 1^st floor, 300.72 SA18

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
REFERENCE, 1^st floor, 300.3 En191  2008

Social Science Encyclopedia
REFERENCE, 1^st floor, 300.3 S013 1996

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
REFERENCE, 1^st floor, 300.3 In8

The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User’s Guide to Sociological Language
(E-book)

Dead Sociologists Index
Extensive cover of the lives, thoughts and writings of sixteen deceased scholars.

Yahoo! Sociology Links

Population Index
The Index covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations.

Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
PSC is one of the oldest population centers in the United States, with a distinguished record in both domestic and international population research. Publications, data archive, research projects, and other population resources are linked to this site.

Research Resources for the Social Sciences
This service is organized into eighteen categories. The categories include general resources, reference materials, data archives, and news resources, and there are also links to sites for the various social science disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography, political sciences, economics and women's studies. Each category provides links to Web sites.

Intute: Social Sciences - Sociology
"The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law."

The SocioWeb: Your Independent Guide to Sociological Resources on the Internet
This is an excellent site which offers keyword searching for sociology topics as well as links to indexes and guides, journals, sociological associations, and other Web sites.

SocioLog
Julian Dierkes' Comprehensive Guide to Sociology On-Line.

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
All types of resources are here, including scholarly and professional organizations, academic departments, research centers, electronic journals and newsletters, etc.

Periodicals

To find holdings and location information for specific periodicals titles (both print and online), see subject heading "Sociology Periodicals" in the Voyager catalog.

To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals on your topic, try the resources listed under Databases by Subject - Sociology

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (in Sociology) - Covers free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects (including psychology) and includes many foreign language titles.

IngentaConnect--The online index covers over 29,000 periodicals. Search by author name, or search by keywords in the titles of the articles and abstracts. No articles available online because we are not current subscribers to the service. Nevertheless, its value is the wide range of periodicals it covers. To determine if the Library has access electronically to a particular journal, browse the list of online journal titles, or search the Voyager Catalog to determine if the Library owns a print copy of the journal. If the journal title is not available in either print or electronic format, you can request a copy of the article through Interlibrary Loan.