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This guide was designed by Ken Frankel to help identify resources on Sociology and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the EZ Proxy link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail lyref@fau.edu.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Alternative Press Index
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

ATLA Religion Database
The premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. [Upon connection choose "Arts & Humanities" and select from list]
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.
Ethnic Newswatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
FactSearch
A guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, and documents.
GenderWatch
A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles.
Human Relations Area Files: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
An archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences administered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
JSTOR
Journal Storage (118 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science, and social science disciplines).
LexisNexis Statistical
Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites.
Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center
Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
Oxford Reference Online
A comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles including the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences and A Dictionary of Sociology.
PAIS International
Consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Social Sciences Full Text
Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Includes the full-text of 28 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 10,000 articles.

Web of Science
Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Women and Social Movements in the United States
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.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

REF Z7164 S68 A24
1997

Aby, Stephen H. Sociology: a guide to reference and information sources
2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1997

REF Z7164 G7 G37
2002
Cheney, Debora. The complete guide to citing government information resources: a manual for social science and business research. 3rd ed. Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 2002.

REF Z7161 S648 2002
Herron, Nancy, ed. The social Sciences: a cross-disciplinary guide to selected sources.
3rd. ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2002.

REF Z 699.5 S65 K57
1993 Knapp, Sara D., ed. The contemporary thesaurus of social science terms and synonyms: a guide for natural language computer searching.
Phoenix, AZ: OryxPress, 1993

REF Z 7161 A1 L5 1990 Li, Tze-chung. Social science reference sources: a practical guide. 2^nd ed.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

REF H 41 R417 2001
Michie, Jonathan, ed. Reader’s guide to the social sciences. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF HM 17 A23 2000 Abercrombie, Nicholas, Stephen Hill and Bryan S. Turner. The Penguin dictionary of sociology.
4^th ed. London, Penguin, 2000.

REF HM 17
B37 1985 Bardis, Panos D. Dictionary of quotations in sociology.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

REF HM 17
B6813 1989 Boudon, Raymond and Francois Bourricaud. A critical dictionary of sociology.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

REF HN 57 E 5 2000 Kronenwetter, Michael. Encyclopedia of modern American social movements.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.

REF H 41
S63 1996 Kuper, Adam and Jessica Kuper, eds. The social science encyclopedia. 2^nd ed.
London: Routledge, 1996.

REF HM 17
C66 1998 Marshall, Gordon, ed.   A dictionary of sociology. 2^nded.
New York: Oxford UniversityPress,1998.

REF H 62
A9 2003 Miller, Robert L. and John D. Brewer. The A-Z of social research: a dictionary of key social science research concepts. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2003.

REF H 49.5 A15 1998 Robinson, David and Val Reed, eds. The A-Z of social research jargon.
Aldershot Hants, England: Ashgate/ARENA, 1998.

REF LC 191 49 1997 Saha, Lawrence J., ed. International encyclopedia of the sociology of education.
New York: Pergamon, 1997.

REF H 61 S4435 2001 Schwandt, Thomas A. Dictionary of qualitative inquiry. 2^nd ed. Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage Publications, 2001.

REF H 40
A2 I5 Sills, David L., ed. International encyclopedia of the social sciences.   New York: Macmillan, 1968.

REF HA 17
V64 1999 Vogt, W. Paul. Dictionary of statistics & methodology: a nontechnical guide for the social sciences. 2^nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999.

REF H 41 Y68 1999 Young, T.R. and Bruce Arrigo. The dictionary of critical social sciences. Boulder,CO: Westview Press, 1999.

DIRECTORIES

REF LB 2337.2
M667 Money for graduate students in the social & behavioral sciences. El Dorado Hills, CA: Reference Services Press, 2001/2003.

REF L 901
P 4783 Peterson's graduate programs in the humanities, arts & social sciences. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, 2001.

HANDBOOKS AND MANUALS

REF RC 455 H2874 1999 Aneshensel, Carol S. and Jo C. Phelan, eds. Handbook of the sociology of mental health.   New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.

REF H 62 H2455 2000 Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds. Handbook of qualitative research. ^2nded. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.

REF GE 195 H35 2002 Dunlap, Riley E. and William Michelson, eds. Handbook of environmental sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002

REF LC 191 H 254 2000 Hallinan, Maureen T., ed. Handbook of the sociology of education. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000.

REF LB 3051 L 4543 2000 Lester, Paula E. and Lloyd K. Bishop. Handbook of tests and measurements in education and the social sciences. ^2nded. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press/Technomic Books, 2000.

REF HM 17 S86 1994 Magill, Frank N., ed. Survey of social science. Sociology series. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1994.

REF HM 19 I 59 1994 Mohan, Raj P. and Arthur S. Wilke, eds. International handbook of contemporary developments in sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1994.

REF HM 585 H 36 2001 Rebach, Howard M, and John G. Bruhn, eds. Handbook of clinical sociology. ^2nded. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.

REF Z 7164 S 667 S 54 1998 Silver, N. Clayton and James B. Hittner. A guidebook of statistical software for the social and behavioral science. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.

REF HM 35 H 25 1994 Smelser, Neil J. and Richard Swedberg, eds. The handbook of economic sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

REF HM 585 H 36 2001 Turner, Jonathan H., ed. Handbook of sociological theory. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS
See also: Electronic Databases

REF Z 6205 C 655 C.R.I.S: the combined retrospective index set to journals in sociology, 1895-1974. Washington, DC: Carrollton Press, 1978.

REF HM 17 Z 9 I 5 International bibliography of sociology. Paris:UNESCO (1959-1988).

REF Z 7161 A London bibliography of the social sciences. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp. (1936-1976). (shelved on 4th floor).

REF Z 7164 R12 S12 Sage race relations abstracts. Beverly Hills,CA: Sage. v.4-v.27(1979-2002).

REF AI 3 R5 Social sciences and humanitites index. New York:H.W. Wilson Co.(1907/1915-1972/1973).

REF AI 3 R5 Social sciences index. New York: H.W. Wilson, Co. (1974/75-1993/1994). (Note: 1983-present are found in the Social Sciences Full Text database).

SELECTED PERIODICALS

HM 1 A7 American journal of sociology.

HM 1 A75 American sociological review.

HM 1 B4 Berkeley journal of sociology.

HM 1 B75 British journal of sociology.

GN 1 C32 Canadian review of sociology and anthropology.

HM 1 C65 Contemporary sociology.

HM 1 I425 Critical sociology.

Z 7161 C8 Current sociology.

HT 401 R6 Rural sociology.

HN 51 S5 Social forces.

HN 1 S58 Social problems.

H 1 S65 Social science quaterly.

HM 1 S625 Sociological inquiry.

HM 1 S687 Sociological methods & research.

HM 1 P33 Sociological perspectives.

HM 1 S69 Sociological quaterly.

HM 1 S7 Sociological review.

SELECTED WEB SITES

American Sociological Association

British Sociological Association

International Sociological Association

Society for Applied Sociology

The SocioLog

SocioSite

STATISTICAL SOURCES

REF Z 1223 Z7 C55 American statistics index. Washington, DC: Congressional Information Service. 1973-.(Shelved in Government Documents Area; source documents available on microfiche).

REF Z 1223 Z7 C55 Hornor, Louise L.,ed.Hispanic Americans: a statistical sourcebook. Palo Alot, CA: Information Publications, 1999.

REF Z 7552 I53 Index to international statistics:IIS. Washington, DC: Congressional Information Service. 1984-.(Shelved in Government Documents Area; source documents available on microfiche).

REF P 35 P29 1997 Parker, Philip M.Linguistic cultures of the world: a statistical reference. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997

REF HA 155 Parker, Philip M.National cultures of the world: a statistical reference. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997

REF Z 7554 U5 S854 Statistical referenceindex. Washington, DC: Congressional Information Service. 1980-.(Shelved in Government Documents Area; source documents available on microfiche).

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	Alternative Press Index Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.
	ATLA Religion Database The premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. [Upon connection choose "Arts & Humanities" and select from list]
	Contemporary Women’s Issues Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.
	Ethnic Newswatch Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
	FactSearch A guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, and documents.
	GenderWatch A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles.
	Human Relations Area Files: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life
	Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research An archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences administered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
	JSTOR Journal Storage (118 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science, and social science disciplines).
	LexisNexis Statistical Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites.
	Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
	Oxford Reference Online A comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles including the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences and A Dictionary of Sociology.
	PAIS International Consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
	PsycINFO PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
	Social Sciences Full Text Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.
	Sociological Abstracts CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
	Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Includes the full-text of 28 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 10,000 articles.
	Web of Science Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
	Women and Social Movements in the United States 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.

REF Z7164 S68 A24 1997	Aby, Stephen H. Sociology: a guide to reference and information sources 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1997
REF Z7164 G7 G37 2002	Cheney, Debora. The complete guide to citing government information resources: a manual for social science and business research. 3rd ed. Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 2002.
REF Z7161 S648 2002	Herron, Nancy, ed. The social Sciences: a cross-disciplinary guide to selected sources. 3rd. ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2002.
REF Z 699.5 S65 K57 1993	Knapp, Sara D., ed. The contemporary thesaurus of social science terms and synonyms: a guide for natural language computer searching. Phoenix, AZ: OryxPress, 1993
REF Z 7161 A1 L5 1990	Li, Tze-chung. Social science reference sources: a practical guide. 2^nd ed. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
REF H 41 R417 2001	Michie, Jonathan, ed. Reader’s guide to the social sciences. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

REF HM 17 A23 2000	Abercrombie, Nicholas, Stephen Hill and Bryan S. Turner. The Penguin dictionary of sociology. 4^th ed. London, Penguin, 2000.
REF HM 17 B37 1985	Bardis, Panos D. Dictionary of quotations in sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
REF HM 17 B6813 1989	Boudon, Raymond and Francois Bourricaud. A critical dictionary of sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
REF HN 57 E 5 2000	Kronenwetter, Michael. Encyclopedia of modern American social movements. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
REF H 41 S63 1996	Kuper, Adam and Jessica Kuper, eds. The social science encyclopedia. 2^nd ed. London: Routledge, 1996.
REF HM 17 C66 1998	Marshall, Gordon, ed. A dictionary of sociology. 2^nded. New York: Oxford UniversityPress,1998.
REF H 62 A9 2003	Miller, Robert L. and John D. Brewer. The A-Z of social research: a dictionary of key social science research concepts. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2003.
REF H 49.5 A15 1998	Robinson, David and Val Reed, eds. The A-Z of social research jargon. Aldershot Hants, England: Ashgate/ARENA, 1998.
REF LC 191 49 1997	Saha, Lawrence J., ed. International encyclopedia of the sociology of education. New York: Pergamon, 1997.
REF H 61 S4435 2001	Schwandt, Thomas A. Dictionary of qualitative inquiry. 2^nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001.
REF H 40 A2 I5	Sills, David L., ed. International encyclopedia of the social sciences. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
REF HA 17 V64 1999	Vogt, W. Paul. Dictionary of statistics & methodology: a nontechnical guide for the social sciences. 2^nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999.
REF H 41 Y68 1999	Young, T.R. and Bruce Arrigo. The dictionary of critical social sciences. Boulder,CO: Westview Press, 1999.

REF LB 2337.2 M667	Money for graduate students in the social & behavioral sciences. El Dorado Hills, CA: Reference Services Press, 2001/2003.
REF L 901 P 4783	Peterson's graduate programs in the humanities, arts & social sciences. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, 2001.

REF RC 455 H2874 1999	Aneshensel, Carol S. and Jo C. Phelan, eds. Handbook of the sociology of mental health. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
REF H 62 H2455 2000	Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds. Handbook of qualitative research. ^2nded. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.
REF GE 195 H35 2002	Dunlap, Riley E. and William Michelson, eds. Handbook of environmental sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002
REF LC 191 H 254 2000	Hallinan, Maureen T., ed. Handbook of the sociology of education. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000.
REF LB 3051 L 4543 2000	Lester, Paula E. and Lloyd K. Bishop. Handbook of tests and measurements in education and the social sciences. ^2nded. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press/Technomic Books, 2000.
REF HM 17 S86 1994	Magill, Frank N., ed. Survey of social science. Sociology series. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1994.
REF HM 19 I 59 1994	Mohan, Raj P. and Arthur S. Wilke, eds. International handbook of contemporary developments in sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1994.
REF HM 585 H 36 2001	Rebach, Howard M, and John G. Bruhn, eds. Handbook of clinical sociology. ^2nded. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
REF Z 7164 S 667 S 54 1998	Silver, N. Clayton and James B. Hittner. A guidebook of statistical software for the social and behavioral science. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.
REF HM 35 H 25 1994	Smelser, Neil J. and Richard Swedberg, eds. The handbook of economic sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
REF HM 585 H 36 2001	Turner, Jonathan H., ed. Handbook of sociological theory. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.

REF Z 6205 C 655	C.R.I.S: the combined retrospective index set to journals in sociology, 1895-1974. Washington, DC: Carrollton Press, 1978.
REF HM 17 Z 9 I 5	International bibliography of sociology. Paris:UNESCO (1959-1988).
REF Z 7161	A London bibliography of the social sciences. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp. (1936-1976). (shelved on 4th floor).
REF Z 7164 R12 S12	Sage race relations abstracts. Beverly Hills,CA: Sage. v.4-v.27(1979-2002).
REF AI 3 R5	Social sciences and humanitites index. New York:H.W. Wilson Co.(1907/1915-1972/1973).
REF AI 3 R5	Social sciences index. New York: H.W. Wilson, Co. (1974/75-1993/1994). (Note: 1983-present are found in the Social Sciences Full Text database).

HM 1 A7	American journal of sociology.
HM 1 A75	American sociological review.
HM 1 B4	Berkeley journal of sociology.
HM 1 B75	British journal of sociology.
GN 1 C32	Canadian review of sociology and anthropology.
HM 1 C65	Contemporary sociology.
HM 1 I425	Critical sociology.
Z 7161 C8	Current sociology.
HT 401 R6	Rural sociology.
HN 51 S5	Social forces.
HN 1 S58	Social problems.
H 1 S65	Social science quaterly.
HM 1 S625	Sociological inquiry.
HM 1 S687	Sociological methods & research.
HM 1 P33	Sociological perspectives.
HM 1 S69	Sociological quaterly.
HM 1 S7	Sociological review.

	American Sociological Association
	British Sociological Association
	International Sociological Association
	Society for Applied Sociology
	The SocioLog
	SocioSite

REF Z 1223 Z7 C55	American statistics index. Washington, DC: Congressional Information Service. 1973-.(Shelved in Government Documents Area; source documents available on microfiche).
REF Z 1223 Z7 C55	Hornor, Louise L.,ed.Hispanic Americans: a statistical sourcebook. Palo Alot, CA: Information Publications, 1999.
REF Z 7552 I53	Index to international statistics:IIS. Washington, DC: Congressional Information Service. 1984-.(Shelved in Government Documents Area; source documents available on microfiche).
REF P 35 P29 1997	Parker, Philip M.Linguistic cultures of the world: a statistical reference. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997
REF HA 155	Parker, Philip M.National cultures of the world: a statistical reference. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997
REF Z 7554 U5 S854	Statistical referenceindex. Washington, DC: Congressional Information Service. 1980-.(Shelved in Government Documents Area; source documents available on microfiche).