Sociology
what are these?
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.
- Go to Advanced Search
- Enter your search term (you can select a search field for subject, title, or author in the drop-down menu)
- Under the limiter “Material Type” select “EBOOKS”
- Submit your search
Foxtrax subject searches for ebooks about:
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:
- which of our libraries owns it
- shelf position (call number)
- status (on shelf or checked out)
- 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.
Durkheimian school of sociology
Economics sociological aspects
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 |
Reference books
Dictionaries
A dictionary of sociology (electronic resource)
A critical dictionary of sociology
The Blackwell dictionary of sociology: a user's guide to sociological language
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of sociology (electronic resource)
International encyclopedia of the social sciences (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of human relationships (electronic resource)
International encyclopedia of marriage and family (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of women and gender sex similarities and differences (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of women social reformers (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media
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:
Streaming videos
Build your own search:
1. Go to Foxtrax2. 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
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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