Reinert-Alumni Library: Sociology Research Guide

Nathan Morgan
Subject Librarian
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Sociology Research Guide

Library Catalog (CLIC): The "Creighton Libraries Information Catalog" of books and other materials. Includes more than 35,000 e-books from the ebrary Academic Collection.
http://clic.creighton.edu/
WorldCat: Search for books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide.

Academic Search Premier: Articles from thousands of magazines and journals in many different subjects, including sociology (1970s-present).
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JSTOR *: Archive of hundreds of scholarly journals in many subject areas, including sociology (all years except most recent).
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PAIS International *: Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) includes articles from thousands of journals worldwide, plus books and other documents (1972-present).
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PsycINFO *: Articles from several thousand journals in psychology and related fields, plus books, book chapters, and dissertations (1887-present).
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Sociological Abstracts *: Articles from hundreds of journals in sociology and related fields, plus books, dissertations, and conference papers (1952-present).
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CountryWatch: Political, economic, social, and environmental overviews, statistics, and news for approximately 200 countries and some non-sovereign nations.
Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory: Modern structuralist, post-structuralist, phenomenological, feminist, hermeneutical, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and formalist modes of theory.
Reference Collection HM 101 .D527 1997
Oxford Reference Online: Politics & Social Sciences: Dictionaries of sociology, ecology, geography, technology and society, and other social science areas. Part of Oxford Reference Online.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Sociology: Includes the Encyclopedia of Sociology and encyclopedias of aging, public health, and popular culture. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
SAGE Reference Online: Encyclopedias for many social science areas of study, including community, criminology, gender, race and ethnicity, research methods, and social theory.
SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Theory: Includes entries on social theories and theorists from Actor Network Theory to Mex Weber.
Survey of Social Science: Sociology Series: Examines a diverse range of topics from fifteen subfields of sociology.
Reference Collection HM 17 .S86 1994 (5 vols.)

American Sociological Association Style Guide: Provides style and formatting standards generally used by sociology journals.
Reference Collection HM 73 .A54 1997
Guide to Writing Sociology Papers: Discusses how to write various type of sociology papers, including textual analysis, ethnographic research, and quantitative research papers.
Reference Collection HM 73 .G78 1986
The Survey Kit: Describes survey instruments and how to organize and conduct a survey.
Reference Collection HN 29 .S724 1995 (9 vols.)

Bureau of the Census: Social, demographic, and economic data about the U.S. population.
http://www.census.gov
Data on the Net: Social science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, and gateways.
http://3stages.org/idata/
EuropaWorld: Includes demographic, economic, and social statistics for 250 countries, plus political profiles and directory information.
FedStats.gov: Provides access to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal government agencies, by subject, geography, or agency.
http://www.fedstat.gov
Historical Statistics of the United States: Population, economic and other quantitative data on American history from colonial times to 1970, published by Cambridge University Press.
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: National data book of demographic, economic, education, and health statistics. Also in print.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Nationmaster.com: A clearing house of U.S. and international statistics organized by topic and country. Sources of statistics include the CIA factbook, UN Statistics Division and others. All statistical tables are well cited.

ICPSR: The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Social Sciences WWW Virtual Library: View an alphabetical list of social science sites; view sites by discipline, including social sciences and social studies, demography, languages and linguistics, and sociology.
http://www.dialogical.net/socialsciences/index.html
SocioSite: Site based at the University of Amsterdam, includes many excellent links to sites worldwide, including sociologists, journals, data archives, associations, and a detailed list of subject areas.
http://www.sociosite.net
SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway): Search an annotated list of resources relevant to social science education and research selected by subject specialists or librarians. Connect directly to the Sociology category.
http://sosig.ac.uk
Understanding Race and Human Variation: A project of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to develop comprehensive and learner-focused interactive educational program to clarify what race is and what race isn't. http://raceproject.aaanet.org/index.html