Sociology Subject Guide

This guide provides print, electronic, and Internet sources of information that may be useful for researching sociology topics. For guides to other subjects, see the Subject Guides page. Also see the Guide to Resources in Sociology and Social Theory.

Books

Use the UT Libraries Catalog to determine if we have a book, periodical, video, or other resource, its call number, and its location in the library. Click on the 'Find Items' link to determine if the item is available for check out.

Articles

To identify articles on sociology and related topics, use one or more indexing and abstracting services. Some services also index dissertations, books and book chapters, conference papers, and/or association papers. Most databases are restricted to use by faculty, staff, and students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Sociology and Social Sciences Databases

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), 1970s-

Contains summaries of over 195,000 criminal justice articles, reports, and books. Microfiche for some NCJRS documents is available. DocMic. HV7231.N43.

• Social Sciences Abstracts, 1983-

An index to primary scholarly journals in the social sciences.

• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), 1956-

An index covering scholarly literature in the social sciences. Allows searching of cited references.

• Sociological Abstracts/Sociofile, 1952-

Provides international coverage of the literature of sociology and related fields.

• Women's Studies International

Covers feminist research in journals, books, book chapters, and other types of publications.

• Other Social Work and Sociology databases.


• Legal resources for criminology researchers.

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier

Full-text collection of popular and scholarly periodicals.

• CQ Researcher, 1991-

Presents current and controversial issues with summaries, pro/con arguments, bibliographies, etc. Not actually a literature index, but the reports offer extensive information on each topic and the bibliographies can be used to find other sources.

• Dissertation Abstracts, 1861-

Indexes dissertations and theses accepted at accredited institutions worldwide.

E-Journals

Electronic journals available from publishers or from a number of full-text databases are listed on our E-Journals page.

• Annual Review of Sociology, 1975-

Synthesizes primary research literature and identifies the principal contributions in the field of sociology. HM15.A58 and online.

Websites

• Dead Sociologists' Society (Pfeiffer University)

Contains biographical information and summaries of the work of various major theorists, as well as links to websites on a variety of sociology topics.

• The Sociolog

Julian Dierkes' Comprehensive Guide to Sociology On-Line.

• SocioSite (University of Amsterdam)

A comprehensive listing of sociology resources on the Internet.

• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology

An index of high-quality sociology websites from around the world.

• Yahoo!: Sociology

Sociology websites from the popular web directory.

Data

Researchers involved in secondary analysis of data will find a vast number of machine-readable data files available for use. Likewise, there are many sources of statistical information for researchers who do not necessarily need a large quantity of data to analyze.

Departments

• University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology


• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Institutions - Departments

Associations

• American Sociological Association


• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences


• American Society of Criminology


• British Society of Criminology


• Justice Studies Association

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Page last updated September 29, 2008.