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Online References | Online Article Indexes | Books | Writing & Style Guides |Internet Gateways

Last Updated: 9/11/08

Background Information - Online References

Encyclopedias:

• Encyclopedia of sociology
• Encyclopedia of social problems
• Encyclopedia of race and racism
• Encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and society
• Poverty in America
• Rich and poor in America
• Social trends & indicators USA
• Welfare
• Encyclopedia of sex and gender
• Prejudice
• Race relations in the United States in the United States, 1920-1940
• Race relations in the United States, 1940-1960
• Race relations in the United States, 1980-2000

 

Online Article Indexes

Disciplinary indexes

• Sociological Abstracts
  Index in sociology and related disciplines includes citations to articles, books, and book chapters.
• Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection 1967-Current
  Contemporary sociology, comparative sociology, consumer culture

Other Online Indexes

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• Gender Watch
• Issues and controversies facts on file helps researchers understand today's crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.
• Social Services Abstracts

Books

• CMU's Libraries' catalog
• Michigan eLibrary-MelCat
• WorldCat

 

Writing & Style Guides

• Style guides
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (REF BF76 .7 .P83 2001) at the reference desk
• APA Style Electronic References
• ASA style guide / American Sociological Association. (REF HM73 .A54 1997t)
• Chicago manual of style (REF Z253 .U69 1993) at the reference desk
• ICPSR Citing Electronic Data Files
• Sociology student writer's manual (REF HM73 .S637 2000)

Internet Gateways

• Verstehen: Max Weber's HomePage
• Marxism Page
• C. Wright Mills' HomePage
• SocioSite: Sociological Subject
  The site is created by sociologists around the world for scholarly communication.