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Subject Guide: Sociology

Books

Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):
General Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (REF HM251 .B476 1995)
  • A Dictionary of Sociology (REF HM17 .C66 1998)
  • Encyclopedia of Social Theory (REF HM 425 .E47 2005)
  • Encyclopedia of Sociology (REF HM425 .E5 2000)
  • Handbook of Social Psychology (REF HM251 .H224 1998)
  • Handbook of Sociology (REF HM51 .H249 1988)
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (REF H40.A2 I5)
  • Social Science Encyclopedia (REF H41 .S63 1996)
  • Statistical Handbook of the Social Safety Net (REF HV 51 .P33 2004)

Subject Specific

  • Encyclopedia of Aging (REF HQ1061 .E53 1995)
  • Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (REF HV6017 .E52)
  • Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (REF HQ1073 .E543 2001)
  • Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, & Addictive Behavior (REF HV5804 .E53 2001)
  • Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (REF HQ76.25 .E53)
  • The Encyclopedia of Marriage, Divorce, and the Family (REF HQ9 .D38 1989)
  • Encyclopedia of Urban America: the Cities and Suburbs (REF HT123 .E5 1998)
  • Handbook of the Sociology of Education (REF LC191 .H254 2000)
  • Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge (REF HQ1115 .R69 2000)

Writing and Style Guides

  • ASA (American Sociological Association) Style Guide (REF HM73 .A54 1997)
  • The Sociology Student Writer's Manual (REF HM73 .S637 1998)

Search the NOBLE Web Catalog for more print and electronic books owned by McQuade Library. Try these sample subject headings:

Sociology Sociology, Urban
Sociology of disability Crime--Sociological aspects
Equality Ethnic relations
Organizational sociology Power (Social sciences)
Population Race relations
Social conflict War and society
Religion and sociology Mass society
Women--Sociological aspects Socialization

To find additional related subject headings, scroll down to the bottom of the Web catalog record or consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (a set of red reference books located near the Reference Desk in McQuade Library).

Articles

Selected print indexes and periodicals:

  • Boston Globe Index [1987 -] (REF AI21 .B63 B44)
  • Humanities Index [1975 -] (REF AI3 .H85) contains citations to 500 English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion.
  • New York Times Index [1913 -] (REF AI21 .N45)
  • PAIS (Public Affairs information Service) International In Print [1964 - 1998] (REF H96 .P9 )
    includes references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents,
    statistical sources, grey literature, research reports, conference proceedings, and publications
    of international agencies.
  • Reader's Guide To Periodical Literature [1890 -] (REF AI3 .R48) is a subject and author
    index of approximately 200 popular and general interest periodicals.

Print and Electronic Periodicals
The library subscribes to a number of journals in print. These are located in the Periodicals Room on the second floor of the library. There are also many full-text electronic journals available in the library's online databases. For a complete list of the library's periodicals holdings in both formats, go to Journal Finder. Here, you can search by title or subject for all print and full-text electronic periodical holdings.

You can search for a particular periodical by title in the McQuade Library Catalog.

The Annual Review of Sociology (HM1 .A763, 2nd floor, circulating collection) provides examinations of scholarly advances sociology through critical, authoritative reviews. The review summarizes a topic, evaluates the state of research on that topic, and lists relevant published research in bibliographies.

Selected journals, magazines, and newspapers on the Web:

Search these databases to find articles:

  • SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database with full text for 235 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for 6,601 conference papers.

  • Academic Search Premier is world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, providing full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

  • Boston Globe provides full-text coverage of the Boston Globe from 1980 to the present

  • CQ Researcher is updated weekly and explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

  • FirstSearch is collection of databases, covering humanities, education, social sciences and the sciences.

  • Expanded Academic ASAP provides access to information across all academic disciplines indexed in over 2,000 periodicals. Some full-text.

  • JSTOR is a a searchable digital archive containing back-issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It contains complete runs of these scholarly journals, many of which date from the 1800s. Note: the most recent 3 to 5 years of a journal are not included in this archive.

  • Project Muse provides 100% full-text online access to over 300 humanities, arts and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields.

Web Sites

Subject Directories

Topics in Sociology

Local Resources

Professional Organizations

Online Tutorials