SOC279b: Nonviolent Social Change

Welcome to the Library’s resource page for Nonviolent Social Change! Here you can identify and access many resources and tools for your research, including databases, web sites, and reference resources

I. Key Research Databases | II. Relevant Reference Works | III. Top Internet Sites    

I. Databases for Scholarly Research

Databases for Research in Global Issues and Social Change

II. Reference Works

E-Reference Works (full text online)

A. Dictionaries

• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History, 3rd ed. (Oxford UP, 2008) 
• A Dictionary of Ecology, 4th ed. (Oxford UP, 2010) 
• A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (Oxford UP, 2007) 
• A Dictionary of Geography, 4th ed. (Oxford UP, 2009) 

B. Directories

• Hands-on Central Ohio 2-1-1 

C. Encyclopedias and Guides

• Encyclopedia of Global Change (Oxford UP, 2001) 
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Oxford UP, 2009) 
• A Guide to Countries of the World, 3rd ed. (Oxford UP, 2000) 
• The Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute Encyclopedia 
• The Oxford Companion to Global Change (Oxford UP, 2008) 
• The Politics of Child Secual Abuse, Emotion, Social Movements, and the State (Oxford UP, 2009) 
• Reframing Social Citizenship (Oxford UP, 2009) 
• Rich and Poor in America: A Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO, 2008) 
• Sociological Practice: Intervention and Social Change (Springer, 2007) 
• Transforming Societies after Political Violence: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health (Springer, 2009) 
• Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty (ABC-CLIO, 2008) 
• Women and Politics around the World: A Comparative History and Survey (ABC-CLIO, 2009) 

D. Human Rights Ebooks

• Confronting Genocide (Springer, 2011)
• The EU Chapter of Fundamental Rights (Spring, 2011)
• Morality andn War: Can War be Just in the Twentieth-first Century? (Oxford UP, 2011)
• Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values (Oxford UP, 2011)
• Phiilosophical Dimensions of Human Rights (Springer, 2012)
• Violence and Religious Movements (Oxford UP, 2011)
• War by Contract: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, and Private Contractors (Oxford UP, 2011)

Reference Collection (in the Library)

• The Atlas of Global Inequalities (U of California Pres, 2011) 
• The Atlas of World Hunger (U of Chicago Press, 2010) 
• Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties (Greenhaven, 2006), 2 vols. 
• Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy 
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues since 1945 (1999)
• Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, 2nd ed. (Elsevier, 2008), 3 vols.  
• Encyclopedia of World Poverty (Sage, 2006) 3 vols.  
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide (Greenhaven, 2003), 6vols.: Asia and Oceania-- Central and South America--Europe-- The Middle East and North Africa-- North America and the Caribbean-- Sub-Saharan Africa 
• Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor (Greenwood, 2004), 2 vols.  
• Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (ABC-CLIO, 2004) 
• Research Guides to U.S. and International Interest Groups (Praeger, 2004) 
• Student's Guide to Congress (CQ Press, 2009) 

III. Internet Sites for Additional Information

U.S. Federal Sites

• CIA Worldfactbook  
• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights– news, press releases, commission reports, briefing reports, SAC reports, congressional reports and testimony, papers  
• U.S. Dept. of State: Countries  

Demographics and Statistics

• American Factfinder Maps (Census Bureau)  
• Diversity Population Maps (Census Bureau)  
• MapStats: United States  
• Quick Reference: Statistics and Demographics  
• United Nations Statistics Division: Demographics and Social Statistics 
• United Nations Statistics Division: Demographics and Social Statistics – Ethnocultural Characteristics - global population demographics 

Additional Sites

• The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute 
• Smithsonian Institute: Choosing to Participate 
• Teach for Peace: Additional Resources 
• Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 
• Teaching Tolerance: Responding to Hate and Bias at School 
• United Nations: Global Issues 
• United States Institute of Peace 
• World Bank 

Library Course Page Outcomes

According to one of the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education from the Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL), information literate students are able to access needed information effectively and efficiently and retrieve information online or in person using a variety of methods (2.3.). This course page was created to help meet the following desired outcomes of that standard, wherein the information literate student:

• Uses various search systems to retrieve information in a variety of formats
• Uses various classification schemes and other systems to locate information resources within the library or to identify specific sites for physical exploration
• Uses specialized online or in-person services available at the institution to retrieve information needed  

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