Sociology
A
research guide: books, articles, & web sites
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How to Find Books in the ODU Library: Search in the ODU Library Catalog.
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Reference Books—A Selection
Reference books provide a good starting point for
your research. Reference items are located in the Library’s Reference
collection, behind the Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler.
Bibliographies and
Indexes
· The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Select Sources. R 016.3 S1333s
Dictionaries
· Dictionary of the Social Sciences. R 300.3 D5616s
· Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences.
R 300.1 V8689d, 2005
Encyclopedias
· Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia. R 306.43 E832s
· Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology. R158 E56a vols. 1-3
· Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society. R 305.2303 E194c 3 vols.
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Encyclopedia
of Disability: A History in Primary Source Documents. R 362.406 E194d, 2006 5
vols.
· Encyclopedia of Homelessness. R 362.509 E195h 2 vols.
· Encyclopedia of Leadership. R 658.4092 E1951 4 vols.
· Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. R 300.72 E197s vols. 1-3
· Encyclopedia of Sociology. R 301.03 E197s 5 vols.
· Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy.
R 339.4609 P869u vols. 1-2
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World of Sociology. R 301.03 W89371s 2 vols.
Handbooks
· Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development. R 305.231 B5684h, 2006
· About Children: An Authoritative Resource on the State of Childhood Today. R 362.7 A 767c, 2005
· Comprehensive Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology. R 618.9289 C7388h, 2006 vols. 1-3
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Classical & Modern Social Theory. R 301.01
K666c, 2000
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Handbook
of Social Psychology. R 301.1
L754h, 1998 2 vols.
· Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology. R 158.7 H19179w 2 vols.
· International Handbook of Sociology. R 301 I854h
Research Guides
· An Atlas of Poverty in America. R 339.46 G4631a, 2006
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Death and Dying Sourcebook. R 362.175 D3493d,
2006
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Handbook
of Qualitative Research. R 001.42 S184h, 2005
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Handbook
of Psychological Treatment Protocols for Children & Adolescents. R 618.92 H236, 1998
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Handbook
of Research Design & Social Measurement. 301.072 M647
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Sage Encyclopedia of Social Sciences Research
Methods. R 300.72 L5853s vols.1-3
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Sociology: A Guide to Reference and Information
Services. R 016.301 A167s, 2005
Writing Manual
· Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. R 808 P9609m, 2001
Reference Resources Online
Full-text. Provides text from reference books on diverse
topics, including adoption, domestic violence, literacy, rape, and racial
diversity.
Mental
Measurements Yearbook
Abstracts. Select the
database menu for Mental Measurements Yearbook and click on the 'Start
Searching' button. This database contains information about and reviews of all
English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality,
vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed
Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Please remember to click on the 'logout' link
once finished.
Full-text. Brings together 100 dictionaries and other
reference books in various subjects into one searchable database. The pertinent
category for this subject area would be Politics
and Social Sciences. Dictionaries of psychology and the social sciences
would be included in this category, which provide fairly extensive definitions.
To access: From the library
homepage, click on Books, and select Oxford Reference Online.
eBooks
Full-text. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text
versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and
fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. They are available 24/7 to
“check out” that is, have exclusive access or 2 hours of “browsing” privileges.
To access: From the library
homepage, click on Books, and select NetLibrary.
Sociology ebooks from Brookings: available at http://brookings.nap.edu/books/index.html
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Use an online
research database to find articles in scholarly journals, general magazines,
and newspapers. ·
To access the
databases below, from the Library’s Articles in Databases page, select the Sociology
category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of the page. ·
To Help You Search
in the Databases: |
Recommended Databases
Contains
peer-reviewed journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly
publications. Covers many academic areas of study,
including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences,
and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
Computers
& Applied Sciences Complete (CASC)
Covers research and development in the areas of computing and the
applied sciences disciplines, including research concerning the social and
professional implications of new technology. Indexes scholarly journals, trade
publications, and other sources.
Electronic
Journal Center
Presents
over 4300 research journals, covering many subject areas, including psychology.
This database offers access to journal collections for browsing the journal
issues and their articles.
Gender
Studies Database
Covers research from the
perspectives of men’s, women’s, feminist, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
studies in diverse areas, e.g., athletics, psychology, political science,
literary criticism, and law. Sources include popular magazines, professional
journals, and other materials. Note: This database does not distinguish between
scholarly and non-scholarly resources.
Offers news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Covers newspapers, magazines, wire services,
federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal
regulations, and SEC filings Updated daily.
PAIS
International
Summarizes literature of
public affairs, such as important political, economic, and social issues. Contains references to journal articles,
books, government documents, statistical directories, gray literature, research
and conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche,
Internet material, and more. Updated
monthly.
PsycCRITIQUES
Weekly
reviews of books and films published by the American Psychological Association.
In addition to the latest releases, this database contains a ten-year backfile
of Contemporary Psychology book reviews, browsable by author/editor,
book/film title, or publication year.
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Covers such
topics as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology,
mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods from
over 490 peer-reviewed journals.
Social
Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Citations. Indexes articles of scholarly journals from 50 disciplines
of the social sciences, with searchable author abstracts and a unique feature
that enables searching of articles that cite a known author or work. Note: Not
intended as a substitute for a comprehensive subject database such as SocINDEX,
which comprehensively indexes
journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other documents.
Contains information relating to the field of sociology,
including articles dealing with rural &
urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure,
substance abuse, violence and many other areas of research. Journals coverage ranges from
1908 to the current year.
Finding Periodicals in this Library
Listed
below are some of the sociology periodicals available in the ODU Library.