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Sociology Research Guide

[Printed volumes in the Castleton State College Library are in brown type.
Blue entries are links to electronic resources.]


Research Guides and Bibliographies

Social Science Reference Sources: A Practical Guide (REF 300.16 L612s 2000)
Sociology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources (REF 301.016 Ab99s 2005)
Materials and Methods for Sociology Research (REF 302.072 G921m)


Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Handbooks

The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought (REF 300.3 B568)
A Dictionary of American Social Change (REF 300.3 F481d)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (REF 300.3 In851)
The Social Science Encyclopedia (REF 300.3 So13 1996)
The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (REF 300.72 L585s)
Encyclopedia of Social Theory (REF 301.01 En197)
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (REF 301.03 B568)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (REF 301.03 C144)
Encyclopedia of American Social History (REF 301.03 C318e)
Encyclopedia of Sociology (REF 301.03 En197 2000)
The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User’s Guide to Sociological Language
(REF 301.03 J63b 2000) and (NetLibrary electronic resource via online catalog)
A Dictionary of Sociology (REF 301.03 D561)
The International Encyclopedia of Sociology (REF 301.0321 M315i)
A Dictionary of the Social Sciences (REF 303 G733d)
Handbook of American Popular Culture (REF 306.4 In4h)
Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia (REF 306.43 Ed832)
Encyclopedia of Community: From Village to the Virtual World (REF 307.03 En194)

Encyclopedia of Population
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America


*Research Databases and Indexes for Finding Journal Articles

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) 1965- (REF 300.9 P96)
Sociological Abstracts 1953-  (REF 301.016 So13)
Academic OneFile

Academic Search Premier
ERIC
Expanded Academic ASAP
Health & Wellness Resource Center
JSTOR Arts&Sciences I
NCJRS Abstracts Database
PsycINFO
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
SocINDEX with Full Text


*Note: Links to full text of some articles will be available immediately. If there is NO link to full text, check Castleton's Journal Holdings List for availability.


Statistics

Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences
(REF 300.15195 V868d)
Statistical Yearbook. Annual (REF 310.25 Un3)
Demographic Yearbook. Annual (REF 312.025 D396)
International Historical Statistics, 1750-1993 (REF 317 M692i 1998)
Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to Present (REF 317.3 H629)
Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2878 and
REF 317.3 Un3s)

Statistical Resources on the Web: Sociology (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsoc.html)
American Factfinder (http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en)


Other Recommended Resources

Intute: Social Sciences (http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/sociology/)
SocioWeb (http://www.socioweb.com/)
WWW Virtual Library: Sociology (http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/)


Citing Sources

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (REF 808.02 P96)
Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style
Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers (REF 808.042 H127s)
NoodleBib An electronic citation management system. Access limited to CSC students, faculty, staff.
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