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Reference Books |
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Searching the Catalog for Books |
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Searching the Databases for Articles |
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Interlibrary Loan |
Start your research by looking at reference books. When you are just beginning a research project, you need basic, factual information that will give you an overview of the topic. Reference books will give you a good starting point and are also a great source for developing ideas for papers if you haven't decided on a topic.
GENERAL
Encyclopedia of Sociology REF HM 425 .E5 2000
Blackwell Companion to Sociology REF HM 585 .B53 2001
Encyclopedia of American Social History REF HN 57 .E58 1993
International Handbook of Sociology REF HM 585 .I57 2000
Sociology Basics REF HM 425 .S63 2000
PUBLIC OPINION
The Gallup Poll Annual REF HN90.P8G35
American Attitudes: Who Thinks What About the Issues That Shape Our Lives REF HN 90 .P8 M58 1998
FAMILIES
Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Sourcebook REF HV 6626.2 .D66 2000
Encyclopedia of Family Life REF HQ 534 .E53 1999
Family in America: An Encyclopedia REF HQ 536 .H365 2001
Kids Count Databook (available online at http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/databook/)
Parenthood in America: An Encyclopedia REF HQ 755.8 .P3783 2000
State of America's Children Yearbook REF HV 741 .C5375 2001
Statistical Handbook on Adolescents in America REF HQ 796 .S8237 1996
Trends in the Well-being of America's Children and Youth REF HQ 792 .U5 T73 (also online at http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/02trends/)
CRIME/DRUGS/VIOLENCE
Atlas of Crime REF HV 6783 .A85 2000
Crime in the United States REF HV 6787 .A3 (also online at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm)
Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice REF HV 9104 .E58 2003
Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict REF HM 291 .E625 1999
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice REF HV 6017 .E52 2002
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior REF HV 6017 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior REF HV 5804 .E54 2001
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States REF HV 8694 .P35 2001
Encyclopedia of American Prisons REF HV 9471 .E425 1996
Encyclopedia of Suicide REF HV 6545 .E87 1988
Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States REF HN 90 .R3 H354 2002
Sage Dictionary of Criminology REF HV 12 .S34 2001
Social Problems: Annual Editions REF HN 51 .A78
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics REF HV 7245 .N37b (also online at http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/)
Violence in America: An Encyclopedia REF HN 90 .V5 V5474 1999
World of Criminal Justice REF HV 7411 .W67 2002
OTHER
Encyclopedia of Aging REF HQ 1061 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs REF HT 123 .E5 1998
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America REF E 184 .A1 G15 1999
Official Guide
to Racial and Cultural Diversity REF E 184 .A1 R78 1998
Next, look for books in CONSULS. A good place to start is with a keyword search, which allows you to combine concepts, such as "violent crime and women" or "sociology and sports."
Remember that CONSULS is the catalog for all of the CSU campuses, so before you go to the shelf make sure the catalog says the item you want is at SCSU. Every item in the catalog has a letter code for its location. S = SCSU, W= WCSU, E= ECSU, C=CCSU, and SL = State Library.
If you see an item at any of the other campuses that you need, you can request it by clicking on "Request Book" and entering your student ID number and Library PIN number. The book will be shipped here within 3-5 working days. The State Library in Hartford will not send books to Southern but it is open to the public.
Sociology books are generally located on the shelves in the H's.
HM = general sociology
HN = social history and conditions
HQ = the family, marriage, women
HT = communities, cities, class, race
HV = social pathology, welfare, criminology
Buley Library has several databases that will be useful for sociology research.
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts journal articles, and provides access to some full text journals.
All databases are accessed through the database page. If you are connecting from off campus for the first time, you will have to set up a library pin number to access the databases.
| Academic Search Premiere (EBSCO) | Scholarly journals. Many full text sociology titles. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | Some fulltext sociology journals. |
| Genderwatch | Many international full text journals, magazines, and newspapers dealing with women's issues. |
| JSTOR | Back runs of scholarly journals. All full text. |
| Project Muse | Scholarly journals. Full text. |
| Request | Combines catalog of materials in libraries throughout Connecticut. |
| Social Sciences Index | Indexes journals in sociology, anthropology, and more. Some full text. |
Sociological Abstracts |
All sociology. |
| Wilson Select Plus | Some full text sociology journals. |
| WorldCat | International catalog of materials in libraries worldwide. |
To see whether a journal is available in the various databases in full text or at Buley Library in print format, enter the journal title in the JOURNAL LOCATOR, accessed from Buley Library's home page.
Books and dissertations that are not available within the CSU library system and journal articles not available at Buley can be requested by filling out an interlibrary loan form. You may request up to five items per day at no cost.
If you would like research assistance or have questions about anything on these pages, please contact Lisa Bier at 392-5131 or bierl1@southernct.edu.
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