Guides: SOCI 497: Methods & Styles of Social Science Communication: Home

Welcome!

I hope the resources featured on this page are helpful for your research in this class. Please reach out to me or another librarian if there's anything we can help with!

Potential topics for Research

Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity

Mass Media

Sociology of Food

Youth Cultures

Sociology of Gender and Sexuality

Social Movements

Cults, Clans, and Communities

Class Conflict and Inequalities

Spirituality, Superstition, and Legends

Consumerism

The Family

Books

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas.

Google Books
Scanned sections of books. Useful for deciding if you want to request a book through interlibrary loan, or starting to read while you're waiting for an interlibrary loan to arrive.
Library of Congress Call Numbers
Find a call number range for your topic. This is useful if you want to browse the stacks.

Survey

This survey is intended for you to fill out after a librarian visits your class.

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Finding Background Sources

OneSearch (advanced search page) This link opens in a new window
Find books, ebooks, scholarly articles, news, and more from libraries worldwide.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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This is a database that just has entries from reference books. Try searching for your topic in the "social sciences" collection.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
This is a database that just has entries from reference books. Refine by subject to search entries from the social sciences.

Finding Scholarly Articles

SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A sociology research database with full-text for many journals dating back to 1895.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Covers core disciplines across the social sciences including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and other areas, featuring journals from over 50 countries
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of scholarly journals. The most recent 3-5 years of journal issues are generally not available.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles in the arts, business, health, medicine, history, science, technology, social sciences. Includes scholarly articles, professional publication, and magazines.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Provides author, keyword, and cited reference searching to thousands of leading social sciences journals, in many cases with searchable abstracts plus links to e-journal images. One of the Web of Science databases. Coverage: 2000 - present.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives. To sync search results with library holdings, go to Settings --> Library Links, then search for Stetson.

Full list of Sociology databases

Other Resources

RefWorks This link opens in a new window
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A research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to generate citations and bibliographies. Group code: RWStetsonU.
Note to legacy RefWorks Users: As of June 30, 2023, legacy RefWorks is deactivated.

Guide to Using RefWorks
EndNote Click (formerly Kopernio)
A tool that can help you access journal articles -- both Stetson library subscription articles and open access articles -- when you are on or off campus.
EndNote Click (formerly Kopernio)

Quick Tips for ASA Style, 5th ed.
From the American Sociological Association

Research Sources on Race and Gender

African-American History This link opens in a new window
Reference book articles, videos, timelines, primary sources, biographies, maps, and more.
African American Experience This link opens in a new window
Covers the black experience from its African origins to the present day. Topics include history, biography, literature, arts, music, pop culture, folklore, business, slavery, civil rights, politics, sports, education, and science & technology.
Includes hundreds of primary documents: manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers; More than 4,000 interviews with former slaves, including the WPA slave narratives from the acclaimed The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography; Sixty-seven Negro University Press texts from the late 1700s to the early 1970s classics in black scholarship. Other Features: In their Own Voices (audio clips, such as interviews with former slaves and music files). Links to vetted Web sites. Lesson plans, directly tied to associated primary source documents and images, and other classroom resources. Hundreds and hundreds of photographs, maps, and other images.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century This link opens in a new window
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Archival materials including: digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and more.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945 This link opens in a new window
Contains a collection of materials for the study of the early development of the Civil Rights Movement-concerned with the issues of lynching, segregation, race riots, and employment discrimination. This collection from FDR’s Official File provides insight into his political style and presents an instructive example of how he balanced moral preference with political realities.
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies This link opens in a new window
Coverage of gender in culture and society. Includes scholarly journals and magazines.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles and other materials on topics related to gender.

SOCI 497: Methods & Styles of Social Science Communication