Sociology Research Resources
Finding articles:
Search the literature in Sociology using Sociological Abstracts. The ProQuest/CSA site has additional information, including a list of journals indexed in Sociological Abstracts, information about the Sociological Abstracts Thesaurus and classification scheme used in the database.
From any citation in your search results,
connect to online articles with 
. If there is no online access, search for the
SOURCE in the
Library catalog. (The source is the journal title, the title of a book containing the cited chapter, etc.)
Request any books or articles not owned by UT Libraries with the online Interlibrary Loan request.
Expand your search to other disciplines:
Search multiple databases with CrossSearch: 
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Databases that you are searching:
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Or login with your EID to "CrossSearch" and create your own custom database sets (see this how-to guide.)
Sociology researchers may also want to review and select subject databases available for:
More Federated Search Options
- Simultaneously search Ebsco databases: from the Databases and Indexes menu, choose Ebscohost Databases, or from any Ebsco database, click the blue CHOOSE DATABASES link.
Databases helpful for sociology research and available via EBSCO include ATLA Religion Fulltext, ERIC, PsycINFO, Gender Studies Database, Communications and Mass Media Complete, MLA, Academic Search Complete, and a number of others.
- Simultaneously search Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases: from the Databases and Indexes menu, choose CSA Illumina Databases, or from any CSA database click the CHANGE - SPECIFIC DATABASES choice under the search form.
Social science databases available from CSA include: Sociological Abstracts, Social Service Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Sciences), PAIS International (which covers public affairs and policy) and several others.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
For complete information about ICPSR, use the link above. UT Austin is an ICPSR member institution which enables students, faculty and staff access to most data available at ICPSR, the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data. Available data can be
browsed by subject or
searched.
The ICPSR data holdings cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. The
ICPSR Bibliography of Data-Related Literature contains over 41,000 citations of known published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the ICPSR archive (check for the source (i.e. journal title) in the
library catalog for local holdings.) There's also a
Data User Help Center.
Examples of ICPSR specialized archives and projects include:
ICPSR provides Web access to data files and documentation for use with statistical software, such as
SAS,
SPSS, and
Stata, and provides a
data use tutorial.
For local help see the
The Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation, which offers consulting services to faculty and students from all departments, and promotes collaboration between the varied statistical and computation communities across campus.
American Sociological Association (ASA) Style:
The American Sociological Association has recently published a updated edition of their style manual.
American Sociological Association. 2007. American Sociological Association Style Guide. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
The style manual of the American Sociological Association is used to establish uniformity and consistency in style among ASA publications, to provide an authoritative reference source on style issues for authors who are writing for the American Sociological Review and other ASA journals, and to summarize basic issues on effective writing for authors
in general.
Further Resources on ASA Style:
- Skidmore College Sociology Department offers a helpful guide to ASA Style with examples.
- OWL at Purdue also offers a guide that covers American Sociological Association (ASA) style and includes information about manuscript formatting, in-text citations, and formatting the references page. The bibliographical format described and references formatting examples are taken from the American Sociological Review.
- University Library at Cal State - Los Angeles provides online examples of how to use ASA style format
- E.H. Butler Library at Buffalo State also offers a guide with examples of ASA Style.
Resources in Other Libraries
OCLC WorldCat: 1000 BC – present. Use this database to get the details for interlibrary loan requests for articles and books not available at UT – make sure to include the “OCLC number” in your interlibrary loan request for the fastest turnaround. Interlibrary Loans can be placed with the online form at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/ils/.
News databases and Archives
- Links to various news sources, including those available in local collections in the Libraries and Center for American History, as well as Texas papers, and links to state and international sources are at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/news/index.html
Databases for News include:
- Alt-Press Watch: Full-text of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press in America.
- Ethnic NewsWatch: Full-text of non-mainstream news from minority and Native media
- Factiva: full-text access to national and international newspapers (this is the only source with the Wall Street Journal), newswires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports.
- Lexis Nexis Academic Universe: News sources of all types from around the world, as well as business, financial and legal information.
- Library Press Display: International papers in full color, full page, only a 60 day archive.
- Newspaper Source: Updated daily. Provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
- Proquest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2004), Washington Post (1877-1990) and Los Angeles Times (1881-present) Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. In addition to news stories, includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.
Government Information
Reference and Background Resources
- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology: the BEOS offers concise, expert definitions and explanations of the key concepts written by leading scholars in the field, including several UT faculty. It provides a comprehensive survey of 33 editorial areas, each of which represents a major area of inquiry within sociology. Entries range from short definitions of key terms to extended explorations of major topics. BEOS covers both classical sociology and contemporary developments in the field, with introductions to sociological theories and research that have developed outside of the United States and Western Europe.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library: fulltext of articles available encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files. A number of the encyclopedias in this database are also available in print versions in PCL.
- CQ Researcher: Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue with numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.
- Other specialized encyclopedias -- both online and print --can be found by searching the library catalog. Hint: use the keyword "encyclopedias" along with the broadest terms for your topic (for example "encyclopedias family", you can check for your topic in the index or table of contents.)
Basic Reference Sources:
Following are a sample of reference sources in Sociology; similiar materials and earlier editions are shelved nearby.
Directories
- Directory of Members / American Sociological Association. Washington, DC: ASA. Older editions in PCL Stacks.
HM 9 A725 2005 PCL Stacks
- Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. Older editions in PCL Stacks.
HM 47 U6 A45 2006 PCL Stacks
Guides, Overviews and Dictionaries (print)
- Aby, Stephen H. Sociology : a guide to reference and information sources. Westport, CT : Libraries Unlimited, 2005.
Z 7164 S68 A24 2005 PCL Stacks and Reference
- Fisher, David et al. Information Sources in the Social Sciences. Munchen : K.G. Saur, 2002.
H 61 I56 2002 PCL Reference
- Herron, Nancy L., ed. The Social Sciences:
A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources, 3rd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2002.
H 61 S648 2002 PCL Reference and online in netLibrary
- Webb, William H., ed. Sources of Information
in the Social Sciences: A Guide to the Literature, 3rd ed. Chicago:
American Library Association, 1986.
H 61 S666 1986 PCL Reference
Dictionaries:
- Bruce, Steve. The Sage dictionary of sociology, London: Sage, 2006
HM 425 B78 2006 PCL Stacks and PCL Reference
- Cramer, Duncan. The Sage dictionary of statistics : a practical resource for students in the social sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.
HA 17 C73 2004 PCL Stacks
- Johnson, Allan G. Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: a user's guide to sociological language, 2nd edition. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
HM 425 J64 2000 PCL Stacks and online in netLibrary
- Jupp, Victor, ed. The Sage dictionary of social research methods. London: Sage, 2006.
H 62 S274 2006 PCL Stacks
- Outhwaite, Willam and Alain Touraine, eds.
Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought. Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2003.
H 41 B53 2003 PCL Reference; prev. ed is online in netLibrary
- Turner, Bryan S. The Cambridge dictionary of sociology. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
HM 425 C36 2006 PCL Reference
General Sociology Encyclopedias -- the Blackwell Encylopedia of Sociology Online and Gale Virtual Reference Library (a database comprised of encyclopedias online) are excellent starting points for background and foundation information in sociology. Try a a search of the library catalog to find special sociology encyclopedias such as the following examples (many of which are included in GVRL):
- Borgatta, Edgar F., ed. Encyclopedia
of Sociology, 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 2000. 5 vols.
HM 425 E5 2000 Vols. 1-5 PCL Reference
and online in netLibrary
- Kuper, Adam and Jessica Kuper. The social science encyclopedia. 3rd ed. New York : Routledge, 2004.
H 41 S63 2004 Vols. 1-2 PCL Reference Dept
- Lewis-Beck, Michael S. and Alan Bryman, Tim Futing Liao, editors. The Sage encyclopedia of social science research methods. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2004.
H 62 S34 2004 Vols. 1-3 PCL Reference Dept
- Magill, Frank M., ed. International encyclopedia of sociology.
Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995. 2 vols.
HM 17 I54 1995 Vols. 1-2 PCL Reference
- Man, Michael, ed. International Encyclopedia
of Sociology. New York: Continuum, 1984.
HM 17 I53 1984 PCL Reference
- Ritzer, George, ed. Encyclopedia of social theory. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2005. 2 vols.
HM 425 E47 2005 Vols. 1-2 PCL Reference and online via Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Smelser, Neil J. and Paul B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1st. ed. New York : Elsevier, 2001. 26 vols.
H 41 I58 2001 Vols. 1-26 PCL Reference
- Sills, David L., ed. International Encyclopedia
of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan, 1968. 17 vols.
- Q - H 40 A2 I5 Vols. 1-17 PCL Reference
- Kuper, Adam and Jessica Kuper, eds. Social
Science Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1996.
H 41 S63 1996 PCL Reference
Subject Encyclopedias
The following are examples of subject encyclopedias available in the libraries.
Find others with a keyword
search in the
Library Catalog, and include the term "encyclopedia [topic]" for example "
encylopedia racism" - or use the the collection of
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Dynes, Wayne R., ed. Encyclopedia of
Homosexuality. New York: Garland, 1990. 2 vols.
HQ 76.25 E53 1990 Vols. 1-2 PCL Stacks
- Dressler, Joshua, ed.. Encyclopedia
of Crime and Justice. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2002. 4 vols.
HV 6017 E52 2002 Vols. 1-4 PCL Reference
- Ekerdt, David J., ed. Encyclopedia of aging.
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 4 vols.
HQ 1061 E534 2002 Vols. 1-4 PCL Reference
also available in netLibrary
- Gerstner, David A. Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. London: Routledge, 2006.
HQ 76.96 R68 2006 PCL Reference Dept
- Kempf-Leonard, Kimberly, ed. Encyclopedia of social measurement. San Diego, Calif.: Academic, 2005.
H 62 E53 2005 Vols. 1-3 PCL Reference Dept
- Maddox, George L., ed. Encyclopedia of
Aging: a comprehensive resource in gerontology and geriatrics, 3rd edition. New York: Springer, 2001. 2 vols.
HQ 1061 E53 2001 Vols. 1-2 PCL Reference
- Hawes, Joseph M. ed. The family in America an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2001. 2 vols.
HQ 536 H365 2001 V.1 PCL Reference Dept and online in netLibrary
- Herrick, John M. and Paul H. Stuart, eds. Encyclopedia of social welfare history in North America. Thousand Oaks, Cali. : Sage, c2005.
HV 12 E497 2005 PCL Reference Dept and online in netlibrary
- Ponzetti, James J. Jr., ed. International encyclopedia of marriage and family . New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2003. 4 vols.
Online in netLibrary
- Steinberg, Shirley, and Priya Parmar, Birgit Richard and Christine Quail, eds. Contemporary youth culture : an international encyclopedia. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
HQ 796 C8154 2006 Vols. 1-2 PCL Reference Dept
- Walter, Lynn, editor in chief. The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood ; 2003.
HQ 1154 G74 2003 Vols. 1-6 PCL Reference Dept
Handbooks
Find topical handbooks search in the Library Catalog with a keyword "[your topic in general terms] handbook", for example "race mental health handbook". Below are examples of types of handbooks available:
- Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr. Racial and ethnic diversity in America : a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Online in netlibrary
- Albarracin, Dolores, Blair T. Johnson, and Mark P. Zanna, eds. The handbook of attitudes. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2005.
BF 327 H36 2005 Life Science Library
- Alreck, Pamela L. and Robert B. Settle. The survey research handbook. 3rd ed. Boston : McGraw-Hill/Irwin, c2004.
HN 29 A46 2004 PCL Stacks
- Binstock, Robert H. and Kinda K. George, eds.
Handbook of aging and the social sciences. Boston : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, c2006.
HQ 1061 H336 2006 PCL Stacks
- Caforio, Giuseppe, ed. Handbook of the sociology of the military. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003.
U 21.5 H368 2003 PCL Stacks
- Carter, Gregg Lee. Gun control in the United States : a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
HV 7436 C36 2006 PCL Stacks
- Delameter, John. Handbook of social psychology. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2006.
HM 1033 H36 2006 PCL Stacks
- Delanty, Gerard, ed. Handbook of historical sociology . London : Sage, 2003.
HM 487 H343 2003 PCL Stacks
- Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonne Lincoln, eds. The SAGE handbook of qualitative research. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks : Sage, c2005.
H 62 H2455 2005 PCL Stacks
- Dillon, Michele, ed. Handbook of the sociology of religion. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
BL 60 H36 2003 PCL Stacks
- Dowd, Nancy E., Dorothy G. Singer and Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds. Handbook of children, culture, and violence. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2006.
HQ 784 V55 H34 2006 PCL Stacks
- Dunlap, Riley E., ed. Handbook of environmental sociology. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2002.
GE 195 H35 2002 PCL Stacks
- Fitch, Kristine L. and Robert E. Sanders, eds. Handbook of language and social interaction. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
P 40 H3425 2005 PCL Stacks
- Goodman, Douglas J. Consumer culture : a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.
Online in netlibrary
- Gubrium, Jaber F. ed. Handbook of interview research: context & method.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2002.
H 61.28 H36 2002 PCL Stacks
- Hardy, Melissa A. and and Alan Bryman. Handbook of data analysis. London : SAGE, 2004.
HA 29 H236 2004 PCL Stacks
- Hogg, Michael A. Blackwell handbook of social psychology. Group processes. Oxford : Blackwell, 2001.
Online in netLibrary
- Janoski, Thomas, et. al., eds. The handbook of political sociology : states, civil societies, and globalization. New York : Cambridge, 2005.
JA 76 H383 2005 PCL Stacks
- Kaplan, David, ed. The Sage handbook of quantitative methodology for the social sciences. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2004.
H 62 S275 2004 PCL Stacks
- Keyes, Corey L.M. and Sherryl H. Goodman, eds. Women and depression : a handbook for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
RC 537 W658 2006 PCL Stacks
- Kimmel, Michael S., Jeff Hearn, and R.W. Connell, eds. Handbook of studies on men & masculinities. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2005.
HQ 1090 H33 2005 PCL Reference Dept
- Lewis, James R. The Oxford handbook of new religious movements. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
BP 603 H36 2004 PCL Stacks
- Paddison, Ronan, ed. Handbook of urban studies. London : Sage, 2001.
HT 151 H318 2001 Architecture Library
- Perecman, Ellen and Sara R. Curran, eds. A handbook for social science field research : essays & bibliographic sources on research design and methods. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2006.
H 62 H24528 2006 PCL Stacks
- Sansone, Carol, ed. The Sage handbook of methods in social psychology. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2004.
HM 1019 S24 2004 PCL Stacks
- Silverman, David.
Doing qualitative research : a practical handbook. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2005.
H 62 S472 2005 PCL Stacks
- Sussman, Marvin B., ed. Handbook of Marriage
and the Family, 2nd ed. New York: Plenum, 1999.
HQ 518 H154 1999 PCL Stacks
- Torres, Carlos Alberto, ed. The international handbook on the sociology of education : an international assessment of new research and theory. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.
LC 189 I53 2003 PCL Stacks
- Turner, Bryan S., Blackwell Companion
to Social Theory, 2nd edition. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
H 61 B4773 2000 PCL Stacks and online in netLibrary
- Turner, Jonathan, H. ed. Handbook of sociological theory. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
HM 585 H36 2001 PCL Stacks
- Vangelisti, Anita L. and Daniel Perlman, eds. The Cambridge handbook of personal relationships. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
HM 1106 C36 2006 PCL Stacks
Web Resources
There are many sociology meta-sites on the web--these are some of the major ones that are updated regularly.
- The SocioLog: Maintained by Julian Dierkes, this searchable site includes listings of university sociology departments, professional associations, research institutes, and links to international and multilingual sites in a wide range of categories.
- Social Science Research Network: Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
- WWW Virtual Library of Sociology: Includes institutions/departments; associations and organizations; discussion groups; research centers; databases and archives; courses and curricula resources; journals and newsletters; software; and more.
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