Subject Guide to Sociology
If you need help, don't hesitate to ask at the reference desk, or contact Reference Librarians Linda Moore or Mark Maier.
Try these encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference guides to get started. Click on the link to see the call number.
Research Guides:
Sociology: A Guide to Reference and Information SourcesRef HM 51 .A29 1997
The Student Sociologist's Handbook Ref HM 68 .B37 1986
Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedia of Sociology;Ref HM 425 .E5 2000
Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000Ref HN373.E63 2001
Encyclopedia of American Social HistoryRef HN57 .E58 1993
Dictionaries:
Blackwell Dictionary of SociologyRef HM 425 .J64 2000
The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-century Social ThoughtRef H41 .B53 1993.
Bibliography and Reviews:
Annual Review of Sociology
Quotations:
Dictionary of Quotations in SociologyRef HM 17 .B37 1985
Citing Sources:
For an excellent summary of the American Sociological
Association Style Guide, click here
For a printed copy see the ASA
Style Guide.
An excellent guide to citing electronic sources can be found in Columbia Guide to OnlineStyle Ref PN 171 .F56 W35 1998
Careers:
Great Jobs for
Sociology MajorsRef HM 51 .L24 1997
Moving to the next step: finding books
To find books in the Mossey Library, use the Mossey Library Catalog.
Use MeLCat to request books and audio-visual materials directly from
other Michigan libraries over the web. Use OCLC WorldCat to
search the holdings of over 3000 libraries worldwide in a single search. You will have to use interlibrary loan to obtain copies of
these books.
Continuing on: the best places to find articles
Basic Search: to find basic or general articles on sociological topics already in Mossey Library, use the Social
Sciences Citation Index. The database contains more than 600,000 entries from over 550 journal titles. Many of the articles are available in electronic format. This index covers journals from 1983- to the present.
To search for journal articles from 1907-1983, use the Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
Intermediate Search: for more advanced topics, you can search over 12,000 journals in a single search by
using Article
First, which indexes the current table of contents pages of several hundred core titles in sociology. See also the Alternative Press Index (API) covers a broad range of sociological topics from a critical perspective. It is an index to
alternative, critical or radical journals. It indexes some 300 journals and covers the literature from 1991 to the present.
For earlier journals, use the Alternative Press Index Archives. It has 700 sources and covers from 1969-1990.
Also
try searching in Social Sciences Citation Index which has access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 leading scholarly social sciences journals from 1994-present.
Comprehensive Search: Social SciSearch is a citation index. It may be used to find what authors have been
cited and is a way of determining important authors. Please make an appointment with Linda Moore or Mark Maier as Social SciSearch is searched on your behalf by a librarian.
Electronic Journals: many of the articles in the indexes and abstracts listed above have been linked to JSTOR, which contains the complete backfiles to 29 basic titles in Sociology. You can also
use the search engine in JSTOR to find individual articles in these 29 journals.
Scholarly Websites to Pursue
Use SocioLog and SocioSite both specific, focused search engines compiled by
sociologists.
Try searching GoogleScholar for scholarly literature across many disciplines and identify resources available from Mossey Library.
Try also the Librarian's Index to the Internet. These finding tools provide
fewer but higher quality sites than general purposes search engines.
For additional information, see the Hillsdale College Sociology Department Homepage.
Link to the Hillsdale College Sociology and Social Thought Department