Selected Resources for Research in Sociology

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Encyclopedic Tools and Dictionaries	Handbooks
Indexes, Abstracting Services, and Databases - Electronically Accessible	Research Reports
Indexes and Abstracting Services in Print	Biographical Materials
Polls and Polling	Statistical Materials

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Encyclopedic Tools and Dictionaries

Abercrombie, Nicholas, Stephen Hill, and Bryan S. Turner. The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology. 4th ed. London: Penguin, 2000.
Ref. HM 17 .A23 2000

Alcock, Pete, Angus Erskine, and Margaret May, eds. The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub., 2002.
Ref. HN 17.5 .B57 2002

Atkins, Stephen E. Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Ref. HN 90.R3 A75 2002

Bardis, Panos D. Dictionary of Quotations in Sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.
Ref. HM 17 .B37 1986

Blau, Judith R., ed. The Blackwell Companion to Sociology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001.
Ref. HM 585 .B53 2001

Borgatta, Edgar F. Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 2000.
Ref. HM 425 .E5 2000

Boudon, Raymond, and Francois Bourricaud. A Critical Dictionary of Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Ref. HM 17 .B6813 1989

Boudon, Raymond and Mohamed Cherkaoui, eds. Central Currents in Social Theory. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000.
Ref. HM 435 .C45 2000

Caplow, Theodore. The First Measured Century : an Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 2001.
Ref. HN 60 .C38 2001

Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan, 1930-1935.
Stacks H 41 .E6

Goethals, George R., Georgia J. Sorenson, James MacGregor Burns, eds. Encyclopedia of Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. 4 vols.
Ref. HD 57.7 .E53 2004

Hamilton, Neil A. Rebels and Renegades : a Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Ref. HN 90.R3 H354 2002

Hawes, Joseph M. The Family in America : an Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2001.
Ref. HQ 536 .H365 2001

Hewitt, Christopher. Encyclopedia of Modern Separatist Movements. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Ref. HM 716 .H48 2000

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam; New York: Elsevier, 2001.
Ref. H 41 .I58 2001

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan, 1968-1979.
Stacks H 41 .I58

Jary, David. HarperCollins Dictionary of Sociology. New York: HarperPerennial, c1991.
Ref. HM 17 .J37

Johnson, Allan G. The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociological Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
Ref. HM 425 .J64 2000

Kaul, Chandrika. Statistical Handbook on the World's Children. Westport, Conn.: Oryx Press, 2002.
Ref. HQ 767.9 .K385 2002

Kuper, Adam, and Jessica Kuper, eds. The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd. Ed. London: Routledge, 1996.
Ref. H 41 .S63 1996

The Left Guide : a Guide to Left-of-Center Organizations. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Economics America, Inc., c1996-
Ref. HS2321 .L44

Magill, Frank N. Survey of Social Science: Sociology Series. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994.
Ref. HM 17 .S86 1994

Mann, Michael, ed. International Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Continuum, 1984.
Stacks HM 17 .I53

Marshall, Gordon, ed. Dictionary of Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Ref. HM 17 .C66 1998

Michie, Jonathan, ed. Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 2 vols.
Ref. H 41 .R454 2001

Outhwaite, William, and Tom Bottomore, eds. The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Ref. H 41 .B53 1993

Palmisano, Josepth M., ed. World of Sociology. Detroit: Gale Group, c2001.
Ref. HM 585 .W67 2001

Ramachandran, V. S. ed. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. San Diego: Academic Press, 1994. 4 vols.
Ref. BF 31 .E5 1994

The Right Guide: a Guide to Conservative and Right-of-Center Organizations. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Economics America, Inc., c1993-
Ref. HS 2321 .R54

Ritzer, George, ed. Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005. 2 vols.
Ref. HM 425 .E47 2005

Stearns, Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001.
Ref. HN 373 .E63 2001

Stearns, Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of Social History. New York: Garland, 1994.
Ref. HN 28 .E53 1994

Thompson, Kenneth. Key Quotations in Sociology. London: Routledge, 1996.
Ref. HM 17 .T56 1996

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Indexes, Abstracting Services, and Databases-Electronically Accessible

Sociological Abstracts This database provides abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, and other publications dealing with sociology and related disciplines. Links to full text are provided where available, and can be accessed by clicking on the Old Well "Find @ UNC" icon.

SSCI This multidisciplinary index broadly covers journal publications in the social sciences. It indexes about 1,700 journals across a variety of disciplines. To be certain that you are searching only the Social Sciences Citation Index, first select the type of search you want (general, cited reference, or advanced), and then make sure that "Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)" is the only citation database selected. While full text access is not provided by the database, you can still click on the "Find @ UNC" icon to see if we have an electronic copy of the article you need.

Population Index Published since 1935, this index provides citations to internationally published literature on population-related topics. It serves as an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and other publications in the field of population. The electronic database, which includes more than 40,000 abstracts of population literature published between 1986 and 1999, is both searchable and browseable. Searching is possible by author, keyword, region, year, and other fields.

Dissertations and Theses This index covers U.S. dissertations dating back to 1861, and as current as last semester. Abstracts are provided, and all dissertations completed at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1997 are available in PDF format. To search for dissertations in sociology or another area, select "Subject name/code" in the search menu, and click on the "Browse subjects" link to choose the appropriate subject.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Providing broad coverage of the social sciences, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) combines four indexes that were previously separate, including the International Bibliography of Sociology. The search interface allows for searches ranging from simple to quite sophisticated. IBSS indexes more than 2,700 journals and 7,000 books annually. Full text of some articles is available and can be accessed by clicking the Old Well "Find @ UNC" icon.

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts ASSIA indexes journal articles from more than 650 different publications. Subjects covered include sociology and a number of related topics, including education, ethnic and family studies, and social work. Full text is not provided by the database, but the full text of some articles can be accessed by clicking the "Find @ UNC" icon.

Essay and General Literature Index This database provides access to thousands of essays included in collected works and anthologies. It covers the humanities and the social sciences broadly. References to essays in more than 300 collections and twenty serial publications are included. Look for the "Find @ UNC" icon to find out if full text is available.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This database provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in political science and related fields, including international studies and public policy. Full-text of some articles is available and can be accessed by clicking the Old Well "Find @ UNC" icon.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International with ARCHIVE PAIS provides a bibliographic index to research and publications in public policy, social policy, and general social sciences. The database indexes a variety of publications, including journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, reports, websites and more. Bibliographic indexing ranges from 1915 to the present. As with many of the previously described electronic indexes, full text to some articles indexed in PAIS can be accessed by clicking on the "Find @ UNC" icon.

Academic Search Premier A major multidisciplinary database, Academic Search Premier indexes both popular and scholarly publications in a variety of fields. Results can be sorted by publication type, and full text access is provided in many cases. Look for the "HTML Full Text" or "PDF Full Text" links, or click on the "Find @ UNC" icon to access this full text.

Family and Society Studies Worldwide The relationship between family and society is a major topic of interest within the discipline of social work. This database combines three different indexes covering this topic: Family and Society Studies, 1970 to present, National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada, and U.S. Military Family Resource Center Documents Database. Coverage dates back to 1970. To read a document's abstract, click on the "view Database Record with DOI link." To find full text, look for the "Find @ UNC" icon to see if UNC has an electronic copy of the document.

Bibliographic Index Plus An excellent resource for finding bibliographies originally published as periodical articles, books, or sections of books, Bibliographic Index Plus is the online version of the print publication Bibliographic Index. This resource covers bibliographies published in "English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech and other languages in the Roman alphabet," and offers some full text access. Coverage dates back to 1984.

MasterFILE Premier Also multidisciplinary, MasterFILE Premier provides bibliographic information and abstracts for articles from more than 2,700 periodicals. Search results can be sorted by publication type (Periodicals, Newspapers, Primary Source Documents, etc.). Full text access to articles is provided in many cases, through the "HTML Full Text" or "PDF Full Text" links, or the "Find @ UNC" icon.

IngentaConnect This electronic index offers a large collection of references to scholarly and professional articles across academic fields. There are no "Find @ UNC" icons in this database, but you can identify articles with full text by looking for the "F" icon, which stands for "free content," or the "S" for "subscribed content," located directly to the left of the article title on the search results page.

Expanded Academic ASAP This multidisciplinary database aims to cover literature in all major academic concentrations, including sociology. Abstracts for both popular and peer-reviewed articles are included, as well as some news articles. Links to full text are provided when this text is available. This database also includes a useful "How to Cite" feature for each article. To use this feature, click on the hand and book icon.

WorldCat While it is not an article database, WorldCat is an excellent resource for finding books and print journals. It serves as an online union catalog that represents the holdings of thousands of libraries around the world. Bibliographic records for books, dissertations, periodicals, media, and other materials are included. Since this is not an article database, bibliographic references to individual articles are not included.

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Indexes and Abstracting Services in Print (in addition to printed backfiles of titles above)

C.R.I.S: Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in Sociology, 1895-1974. 6 vols. Washington: Carrollton Press, 1978.
Ref. Z 7161 .C17

Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals, 1971-1985. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 1987.
Row 7

Thematic List of Descriptors-Sociology. London; New York: Routledge, 1989.
Row 14

Sociology: an International Bibliography of Serial Publications, 1880-1980. London: Mansell, 1983.
Ref. Z 7164 .S68 W46 1983

Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms. San Diego: Sociological Abstracts.
E Ref bookcase

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Polls and Polling

American Public Opinion Data
Opinion Research Services
Microfiche Serial 1-593
Index: Ref. HM 261 .A463

Polling the Nations

Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. Louis Harris Data Archive.
http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/

Index to International Public Opinion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978-
Ref. HM 261 .I552

Smith, Tom W., Bradley J. Arnold, and Jennifer K. Wesley. Annotated Bibliography of Papers Using the General Social Surveys. 6th ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1986.
Stacks Z 7161 .S623 1986

Wood, Floris W., ed. An American Profile-Opinions and Behavior, 1972-1989. Detroit: Gale, 1990.
Ref. HN 90 .P8 A53 1990

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Handbooks

ASA Style Guide. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, c1997.
Ref. HM 73 .A44 1997

Fredericks, Marcel A. Second Steps in Sociology: Use and Misuse of Sociological Concepts. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.
Stacks HM 24 .F733 1990

Krathwohl, David R. Methods of Educational and Social Science Research: An Integrated Approach. 2nd ed. New York; London: Longman,
Stacks H 62 .K6793 1997

Lerner, Richard M., Francine Jacobs, and Donald Wertlieb, eds. Handbook of Applied Developmental Science: Promoting Positive Child, Adolescent, and Family Development Through Research, Policies, and Programs. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2003.
Ref. HQ767.9 .H346 2003

Organizational Sociology: A Handbook of Syllabi and Other Teaching Resources. Washington: American Sociological Association, 1998.
Stacks HM 131 .O743 1998

Quah, Stella H. and Arnaud Sales. International Handbook of Sociology. London; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.
Stacks HM 585 .I57 2000

Rebach, Howard M. and John G. Bruhn, eds. Handbook of Clinical Sociology. 2nd ed. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001.
Ref. HM 585 .H35 2001

Richardson, Diane and Steven Seidman, ed. Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2002.
Ref. HQ 75.15 .H36 2002

Touliatos, Jo, Barry F. Perlmutter, and Murray A. Strauss, eds. Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, c2001.
Ref. HQ 728 .T68 2001

Turner, Jonathan H., ed. Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
Ref. HM 585 .H36 2001

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Research Reports

American Sociological Review.
Stacks HM 1 .A75 1936-

Annual Review of Sociology.
Stacks HM 1 .A763 1975- Also online: Annual Review of Sociology

Current Sociology.
Stacks Z 7161 .C8 1952-

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Biographical Materials

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Deegan, Mary Jo, ed. Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Ref. HM 19 .W59 1991

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Statistical Materials

LexisNexis Statistical

Data on the Net
http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/

Social Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html

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