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Sociology Research Resources


Finding articles: From Databases and Indexes:, select Sociological Abstracts. Find out more about SocioAbs, with this "fact Sheet", which includes a list of journals indexed and the database fields in Sociological Abstracts.

Connect to online versions of articles with the Find it at UT button. When there is no online access to an article, or the citation is to a book chapter, search for the SOURCE in the Library catalog. (For more about this process, see the videos illustrating how to Find Articles and Find Books.) Request any works not owned by UT Libraries with Interlibrary Loan.

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Or contact me via email with your question or to schedule a research consultation.
You may also want to search other relevant subject databases. Examples include: Gender Studies Database, Communication and Mass Media, PsycINFO, ATLA Religion Database, and many others. Contact me if you need suggestions or check out some of the databases available for:

Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary sources to consult include Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, and Academic OneFile.

Newspaper and newswire databases include LexisNexis, Library Press Display (a 60 day archive of full-color and full-page newspapers from around the world, including over 300 titles from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States), Factiva, and individual paper archives licensed by UT (LA Times, The New York Times, Washington Post.

Statistics and Demographics and Public Opinion Polling sources are also available.

Create custom search sets of databases with the federated search tool, Find an Article (Metalib). Contact me for help, or download this cheat-sheet.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)

UT Austin is an ICPSR member institution. Students, faculty and staff have direct access to most data available at ICPSR, the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data. 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. 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 the citation 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 include:

Reference and Background Resources

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:

Reference Sources Following are a sample of reference sources in Sociology; similiar materials and earlier editions are shelved nearby.
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Guides, Overviews and Dictionaries (print)

Dictionaries:

General Sociology Encyclopedias -- search the catalog by subject for "Sociology -- Encyclopedias." for more.

Subject Encyclopedias The following are examples of topical subject encyclopedias available. Find others by performing a keyword or title keyword search in the Library Catalog, such as "encyclopedia and [topic]" or try the collection of Encyclopedias in the Gale Virtual Reference Library

Handbooks
Find topical handbooks search in the Library Catalog: by title keyword "[your topic] handbook". Below are examples from recent years:


Web Resources
There are many sociology meta-sites on the web--these are some of the major ones that are updated regularly. Return to Research by Subject