Sociology

Databases
Ebooks
Print books
Reference books
Videos
Web resources
Google Search: Sociology
Professional organizations
Your library liaison

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These are social bookmarking services that allow internet users to store, search, and share bookmarks of webpages.

Databases

Academic OneFile
This database provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. It contains full text for more than 4,500 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.

Ageline
Includes information on aging and middle age from an interdisciplinary perspective; includes citations to articles, books, and government documents. Some full text articles available.

CQ Researcher
Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. The CQ Researcher can be read in its entirety or by section, which includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Google Scholar
Use this link to have Google Scholar recognize you as a George Fox user, and link you to our full text subscriptions. Google Scholar indexes a broad array of scholarly literature.

JSTOR
Contains 17 journals in sociology along with other journals in the social sciences.  Go to Advanced Search and select “Sociology” from the list of “Discipline(s) and/or Journal(s)”.

Oxford Journals
Over 200 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.

PsycInfo
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. This is a bibliographic database with abstracts covering 1806 to the present.  Click here for a list of video tutorials.

Psychology and Behavior Science Collection
This is a comprehensive database from EBSCO covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.  Approximately 216 titles fall under the subject description of sociology.

Research Starters-Sociology
Provides comprehensive summaries of sociology topics. (One year trial---available through June 2010)

SocIndex
Indexes 640 journals in the fields of sociology and social work, with full text for more than 250 of them.

Wiley Interscience
Full-text journals and ebooks in sociology and the social sciences.

Ebooks

Best way to find ebooks

Search the GFU library catalog FoxTrax to find ebooks by subject, title, author or keyword.

  1. Go to Advanced Search
  2. Enter your search term (you can select a search field for subject, title, or author in the drop-down menu)
  3. Under the limiter “Material Type” select “EBOOKS”
  4. Submit your search

Foxtrax subject searches for ebooks about:

Sociology

Sociologists

Gender

Ethnicity

Minorities

Individualism

Largest GFU ebook collections

MyiLibrary
MyiLibrary provides access to ebooks from major academic publishers.
***Mac users defer to the Safari browser until further notice.

NetLibrary 
Our largest collection of ebooks with over 4600 titles.  Features:

  • Links from the table of contents
  • An embedded dictionary
  • Full-text searching
  • Page-by-page or chapter-by-chapter access

***Mac users defer to the Safari browser

Print books

Search Foxtrax for books at GFU libraries.

You can search by title, author, or subject and discover:

  1. which of our libraries owns it
  2. shelf position (call number)
  3. status (on shelf or checked out)
  4. complete citation

Search Summit and/or WorldCat for books at other libraries.

Through Summit, you have access to the holdings of most academic libraries in the northwest. You can also choose to search the combined Summit/World Catalog. Search either just like you search Foxtrax, and then request what you find. Summit materials arrive in 2-4 business days. You can check Summit books out for 6 weeks with no renewals. Books requested from outside the Summit system can take 10 days to 3 weeks to arrive.

Types of searches that you can use to find books:

A.  Title and author searches

If you know the title of a book or the name of an author you can perform a "Title" or "Author" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting these field options from a drop-down menu or a tab and entering the title or author name in the search box.

B.  Keyword search

A keyword search is the broadest, most flexible search that you can use.  It looks for the terms that you enter in any order within all of the fields of the bibliographic record.  You can perform a "Keyword" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting this field option from a drop down menu or a tab and entering the keyword(s) in the search box.  This can be a good way to start your book search but sometimes the results are irrelevant or there are so many that it would take too long to go through them all.  If this is the case then a subject search will be more helpful for you.

C.  Subject search

A subject search in the catalog is the most direct way to find a book on a specific topic.  You can perform a "Subject" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting these field options from a drop-down menu or tab and entering the subject heading in the search box.  It can be difficult to know or to find the right subject heading to use for this type of search.  If you are not sure what term to use as a subject heading then read the tip below for a helpful alternative.

Easiest way to perform a subject search:

    • Using a keyword search find one book in the catalog that most closely matches your topic of interest and look at the full record to view the subject headings that are used to describe the content.  Click on one of the subject headings to view all materials that have been labeled with the same subject heading or use a combination of subject headings to formulate your own search.

    Links to subject searches

    Below are links to various subject searches in the catalog that will take you to the records of books that have been tagged with that subject heading. 

    Sociology

    Christian sociology

    Clinical sociology

    Crime sociological aspects

    Durkheimian school of sociology

    Economics sociological aspects

    Educational sociology

    Emotions sociological aspects

    Equality

    Ethnic relations

    Exchange theory (Sociology)

    Globalization social aspects

    Historical sociology

    Human settlements

    Industrial sociology

    Knowledge, sociology of

    Macrosociology

    Microsociology 

    Organizational sociology

    Political sociology 

    Population

    Race relations

    Religion and sociology

    Social Capital (Sociology) 

    Sociological jurisprudence

    Sociology, rural

    Sports sociological aspects

    Suicide sociological aspects

    War and society

    Women health and hygiene sociological aspects

    Women mental health sociological aspects

    Call numbers

    If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

    BL 60 Sociology of Religion
    BP 173.25-173.45 Islamic Sociology
    HA 29-32 Theory & Method of Social Science Statistics
    HB 848-3697 Demography
    HD 60-60.5 Social Responsibility of Business
    HD 4801-8943 Labor, Work, Working Class
    HD 6951-6957 Industrial Sociology, Social Conditions of Labor
    HD 7795-8027 Labor Policy, Labor and the State
    HM 435-477 History of Sociology & Sociological Theory
    HM 461-473 Schools of Social Thought
    HM 481-554 Sociological Theory and Method
    HM 621-656 Culture
    HM 661-696 Social Control
    HM 701 Social Systems
    HM 706 Social Structure
    HM 711-806 Groups and Organizations
    HM 756-781 Community
    HM 786-806 Organizational Sociology and Theory
    HM 811-821 Deviant Behavior, Social Deviance
    HM 826 Social Institutions
    HM 831-901 Social Change
    HM 1001-1281 Social Psychology
    HM 1041-1101 Social Perception, Social Cognition
    HM 1106-1171 Interpersonal relations
    HM 1176-1281 Social Influence/Pressure
    HN 1-995 Social History/Conditions, Problems & Reform
    HQ 19-30.7 Sexual behavior and attitudes, Sexuality
    HQ 31-64 Sex instruction and sexual ethics
    HQ 71-72 Sexual deviations
    HQ 74-74.2 Bisexuality
    HQ 75-77 Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Transexualism, Transvestism
    HQ 79 Sadism, Masochism, Fetishism
    HQ 101-440.7 Prostitution
    HQ 450-472 Erotica
    HQ 503-1064 Family, Marriage, Home
    HQ 755.7-759.92 Parents, Parenthood
    HQ 760-767.7 Family Size
    HQ 767.8-792.2 Children, Child Development
    HQ 793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers
    HQ 799.5-799.97 Adulthood
    HQ 800-801 Single People, Man/Woman Relationships, Dating
    HQ 806 Adultery
    HQ 811-960.7 Divorce
    HQ1058-1058.5 Widowhood
    HQ 1060-1064 Gerontology
    HQ1073-1073.5 Death & Dying
    HQ 1075-1075.5 Sex Role
    HQ 1088-1090.7 Men
    HQ 1101-2030.7 Women, Feminism
    HT 101-395 Urban sociology
    HT 401-485 Rural sociology
    HT 621-725 Origins of social classes
    HT 1501-1595 Races as a social group, race relations in general
    HV 4005-4013 Immigrants
    HV 5800-5840 Drug habits. Drug abuse
    HV 6035-6197 Criminal anthropology
    HV 6201-6249 Criminal classes
    HV 6774-7220.5 Crimes and criminal classes
    HX 519-696 Communism, Socialism, Utopianism, Collective Settlements
    HX 806-811 Utopias. The ideal state
    HX 821-970.9 Anarchism
    K 366-380 Sociology of Law
    K 1700-1973 Social Legislation
    LC 212-214 Educational Sociology
    RA 418 Medical Sociology, Social Medicine
    U 21-22 Military Sociology

Videos

Build your own search:

   1. Go to Foxtrax
   2. Select Advanced Search
   3. Enter a keyword in the search box
   4. Limit "Material Type" to "PROJ MEDIUM"

Foxtrax subject searches for videos about:

Sociology

Globalization

Gender

Streaming videos

Build your own search:

   1. Go to Foxtrax
   2. Select Advanced Search
   3. Enter a keyword in the search box (you can select a search field for subject, title, or author in the drop-down menu)
   4. Limit "Material Type" to "STREAMINGVIDEO"

Link to all streaming videos

If you would like to browse, click here to view the catalog's list of all streaming videos.

Web resources

SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
A database of several thousand Internet resources, each selected by a librarian or academic. This annotated catalog is searchable by subject area.

Counsel of American Overseas Research Centers

Economic Sociological Editorial Series

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

Institute for Social Research

Pew Research Center

Russell Sage Foundation

SOCIOSITE
Social Science Information System based at the University of Amsterdam

World Values Survey
The World Values Survey is organized as a network of social scientists who have surveyed the basic values and beliefs of the publics of more than 80 societies, on all six inhabited continents.

Hartford Institute for Religion Research
This is the best site on the sociology of religion. It has bibliographies, links to articles, and information on sociologists of religion and their tools. The Institute is indeed "an important bridge between the scholarly community and the practice of faith."

American Religion Data Archive
The ARDA is a great source for simple maps and reports of churches and church membership. Data from a host of national surveys is available for download.

Data for Local Communities
A database of citations to online sources of data relating to sub-state areas in Oregon, such as cities, counties, legislative districts, and ecoregions. Great searching and limiting capabilities. Browsable by topic or geographic level.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NCJRS is a federally sponsored information clearinghouse that anyone can use. It produces "one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world," the NCJRS Abstracts Database. It also provides 7,000 full-text publications, and online reference service.

Google Search:  Sociology

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.

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