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Tools. As a student majoring in sociology, you will want to become familiar with the information research tools used for the academic and scholarly study of sociology. Some of these tools will provide access to the academic, scholarly body of literature that documents the established body of knowledge in sociology. While other tools will provide access to primary source social data.
Framework. In addition, scholarly and professional information research in Sociology follows a framework or process, which takes you to many different information resources, where you can gather information. Within this established framework you will proceed from a broad overview of your topic to a more specific, deeper discussion of individual topics.
Time. Information research takes time. Time to find and evaluate that information for which you are seeking. Time to read and understand the material. Time to think about what you have found and incorporate it into your thoughts and writings. Be sure to allow enought time to throughly complete the information research process.
The following Sociology Resource Guide provides a list of selected tools that are available for you to use through D'Amour Library. These tools represent the scholarly body of literature in the field of sociology.
Reference SourcesReference sources provide researchers witha broad overview of their topic, often setting the topic in the framework of the discipline, in addition to providing references to seminal works and authors in the field. Discipline Encyclopedia, Handbooks, Dictionaries etc. Borgatta, Edgar F. etal. Ed. Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Macmillan, 2000. Ref HM425.E5 2000. Boudon, Raymond and Francois Bourricaud. A Critical Dictionary of Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago: 1989. RefHM17B6813 1989. Kuper, Adam and Jessica Kuper, eds. The Social Science Encyclopedia. London: Routledge, 1996. Ref H41.S63 1996. Sills, David L. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan, 1968, 1972. RefH40.A2I5 Smelser, Neil J. Handbook of Sociology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988. Ref HM51.H249 1988. Specialized Encyclopedia Bankston, Carl L. III, Ed. Encyclopedia of Family Life. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 1999. Ref HQ534.E53 1999. Bryant, Clifton. Ed. Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. Ref HV6017.E53 2001. Bullough, Vern L. and Bonnie Bullough. Human Sexuality: an encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1994. Ref.HQ9.H846 1994. Carroll, Bret E. Ed. American Masuclinities: a historical encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003. Ref HQ1090.3 .A453 2003. Christensen, Harold T. Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Chicago: Rand McNally, Ref HQ728.C478 Edgar, Andrew and Peter Sedgwick. Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers. London: Routledge, 2002. Ref HM621.E34 2002. Francoeur, Robert T. The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality. New York: Continuum Press, 1997. Ref HQ21.I68 1997 Kazdin, Alan E. Ed. Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Ref BF31.E52 2000 Levinson, David. Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia. New York: RoutledgeFlamer, 2002. Ref LC189.95 .E38 2002 Miller, Delbert C. Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurement. 5th Ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991. Ref H62.M44 1991 Outhwaite, William. The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. Ref H41.B53 2003 Ponzetti, James J. Ed. International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family. New York: Macmillan, 2003. Ref.HQ9.E52 2003. Worell, Judith. Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender. New York: Academic Press, 2001. Ref HQ1115.E51 2001 |
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BooksBooks and videos, which are available at WNEC, containing information on sociology, and the issues surrounding sociology, can be found in WILDPAC, the online catalog to the holdings of WNEC. When searching WILDPAC for books on your topic, start with a KEYWORD search. Use SUBJECT search with Library Congress vocabulary only.
Browsing through the stacks in the subject area of interest often provides additional resourses. Choose the LC call number of interest The Library of Congress Classification. A summary of the "H" or Social Science LC classification range can also be useful. |
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Web Sites American Sociological Association. http://www.asanet.org/ Government Documents FedStats. http://www.fedstats.gov. Main portal for U.S. government agency statistical information. International Documents. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs. A well organizaed site of statistics from a variety of national and international agencies created and maintained by the University of Michigan. U.S. Census. http://www.census.gov Sociology Sites Allyn & Bacon Sociology Sites. http://www.abacon.com/sociology/soclinks/collect.html This site of sociology links is maintained by the textbook publisher Allyn & Bacon. Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp. Well organized site that contains national and international governmental and non-governmental links to social science data, maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Internet Scout Project. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu. Search this site by topic. For a broad look at sociology sites use the term "sociology" to search the archive. Each site has been reviewed and selected for inclusion. Well maintained site sponsored by the National Science Foundation and housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Internet
Public Library: Sociology. http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse Sociosite.
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/index.html WWW
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July 25, 2002 mjss last updated: 01/10/04