LibGuides: Sociology: Books & Articles

Books and Journals

Books

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Selected Scholarly Journals

American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Annual Review of Sociology
Administrative Science Quarterly
Social Forces
Sociological Methodology
Social Psychology Quarterly
Demography
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Databases & Indexes

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. Offers information in nearly every area of academic study, including the social sciences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window More than 2000 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science, and social science disciplines.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Contains full text for core coverage journals dating back to 1895, and priority coverage journals. Includes full text books, monographs, and conference papers.
Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window Brings together leading scholars to provide an overview of classic and current research and future trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 This link opens in a new window Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences dating as far back as 1907
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) This link opens in a new window An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations, and education. Updated monthly.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews, and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Incorporates over 100 languages and countries.

More Databases

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (Parts 1 & 2) This link opens in a new window Presents important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the 20th century and beyond. Illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window Provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders and features unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects include segregation, poverty, education, religion, civil rights, and more.
Chicano Database This link opens in a new window Gives researchers targeted access to the materials that explore the broad dimensions of class, race and gender of the Chicano and Latino U.S. experience.
Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window Offers more than 700 journals in the legal and criminal justice field.
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s This link opens in a new window A full-text database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's previously classified files on prominent radicals and radical organizations from 1956 to 1971. Sheds light on internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements to change American government and society.
Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window The Global Road Warrior database provides access to country information in various categories such as business culture, communications, demographics, money and banking, points of interest, security, society and culture, tips for businesswomen, transportation, and travel essentials. It also includes maps and photographs.
Social Theory This link opens in a new window Offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Features more than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Indexes and abstracts the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Women and Social Movements in the United States Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new window Examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the present. Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. Includes the Women's Commission Reports.