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Sociology & Anthropology: Sociology Resources

Department Research Guides identify and define standard information retrieval tools for a specific department. Each guide was created and is maintained by the library liaison for that department. We encourage you to recommend resources for the guides.

Journals

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Journal Titles List for WIU

Tests & Surveys

Are you looking for a survey instrument that measures a certain behavior or trait?

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Finding Tests and Survey Instruments @ WIU

Reference Materials

Print reference books located in the Reference Collection, Malpass Library, 2nd Floor:

  • Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2007. G. Ritzer, ed. Malden,MA: Blackwell. REF HM425.B53 2007
  • Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2000. E.F. Borgatta, ed. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference. REF HM425.E5 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Social Theory. 2005. G. Ritzer, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. REF HM425.E47 2005
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2008. W.A. Darity, ed. 2nd ed. Detroit : Macmillan. REF H40.A2 I5 2008
  • Style Guide (ASA). 2007. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: ASA. REF HM73.A54 2007
  • Survey of social science. Sociology series. 1994. F.N. Magill, ed. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. REF HM17.S86 1994

Online reference books from Sage Reference include: Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior, Encyclopedia of Social Theory, and 21st Century Sociology.

Or search for more print and online books using the WestCat library catalog.

Sociology-Related Databases

Sociological Abstracts
Indexes over 1,800 periodicals (plus books, chapters, dissertations and papers) from 1952 to the present in the areas of sociology, social work, social sciences, and behavioral sciences.

ATLA Religion Database
More than 1,500 journal titles indexed since 1949 in the areas of: Bible; religion and social issues; church history; world religions & religious studies; theology; philosophy; and ethics.

Gerritsen Collection
International database of unique materials about women and their lives. Full text (digitized images) of 4,700 books, pamphlets and periodicals covering the years 1543-1945. Focuses primarily on the US, British Isles, and Western Europe.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works (humanities and social sciences) on Latin America. Covers books, articles, chapters and papers from 1936 to the present.

 

Or view a list of: All Library Databases

 

Websites

introsocsite: Introduction to Sociology

From the American Sociological Association, includes resources for sociology students and teachers, an overview of the field of sociology, plus an Intro to Sociology Course. Available at: http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/introtosociology/home.html

World Statistics

World Statistics gives user-friendly access to a selection of indicators, carefully selected to meet the most important needs of decision-makers, analysts, journalists, researchers, students and other users. All these indicators can be easily searched, visualized as tables, maps or graphs, and downloaded for further processing.

Data collected by these organisations are often accessible only through their websites, or through specialized portals. Therefore, getting access to relevant data can take long and require accessing various websites and dealing with many formats. In addition, these websites are usually designed as a repository for the whole information produced by the organisation, and it is difficult for non-specialist users to find the information they are looking for among thousands of very detailed statistical series.  Available at: worldstatistics.org