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Library Catalogs
The subject heading Sociology is broken down into 342 subtopics. In addition there are 76 related subject headings. If you do not wish to browse the headings, do a word search on your topic and follow the subject heading links at the bottom of relevant records to find additional, useful resources.
To browse the collection electronically, click on the call number of an item. Materials having similar call numbers, shelved anywhere in the library, will appear in call number order.
Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Books, videos, government documents, etc. in Bowdoin's library.
NExpress
A combined catalog containing the library holdings of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley,
Williams, Middlebury, and Northeastern. Requests take 2-3 days.
MaineCat
Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. Requests take 2-5 days
WorldCat
A combined database of many library catalogs worldwide. Request items found in WorldCat through our Interlibrary Loan service.
Core Databases
- Academic Search Premier [about]
Academic Search Premier
Coverage Dates: Varies (mid-1990s) - Present
Format: Online
Contains full-text for 3,180 journals, and indexing for over 4,100. Some full-text titles have publisher's embargos which prevent the most current content from being online.
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Gallup Brain
Coverage Dates: 1935 - Present
Format: Online
Searchable database of the thousands of Gallup Polls conducted from 1935 to today. Users can search questions, results, specific surveys, and associated articles. Also houses Gallup Poll and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses.
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Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Coverage Dates: 1907 - 1984
Format: Online
Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Content from H.W. Wilson’s International Index is also included.
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Polling the Nations
Coverage Dates: 1986 - Present
Format: Online
Polling the Nations is a compilation of surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time. The pollsters included in the database are: US polling organizations (e.g., Harris International, The Pew Center); universities (e.g., Rice University, University of Maryland); newspapers (e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times); Television news organizations (e.g., CBS, NBS, Fox, CNN); international polling organizations (e.g., Eurobarometer; special interest groups (e.g., Boy Scouts, AFL-CIO)
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Roper Center
Coverage Dates: 1935 - Present
Format: Online
The Roper Center archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. These datasets are listed in the Catalog of Holdings. Online access to many datasets are provided through the Roper Express service. US nationwide public opinion polls since 1935 are available through the iPoll service. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Coverage Dates: 1990 - Present
Format: Online
Scholarly articles in the social sciences. Excellent source for conducting a cited reference search.
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Social Services Abstracts
Coverage Dates: 1980 - Present
Format: Online
"CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews."
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Sociological Abstracts
Coverage Dates: 1952 - Present
Format: Online
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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Related Databases
- Ethnic Newswatch [about]
Ethnic Newswatch
Coverage Dates: 1985 - Present
Format: Online
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America.
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Population Index (1958-1999)
Coverage Dates: 1958 - 1999
Format: Print
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Population Index (1986-2000)
Coverage Dates: 1986 - Present
Format: Online
An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material.
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Reference Sources
ASA style guide
Main Ref HM73 .A54 1997
Handbook of research design and social measurement
Main Ref H62 M44 1991
Encyclopedias
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Encyclopedia of homelessness
Main Ref HV4493 .E53 2004
Encyclopedia of violence, peace and conflict
Main Ref HM886 .E53 1999
Encyclopedia of American social movements
Main Ref HN57 .E594 2004
Encyclopedia of European social history
Main Ref HN373 .E63 2001
Encyclopedia of world poverty
Main Ref HV12 .E54 2006
Encyclopedia of crime and justice
Main Ref HV6017 .E52 2002
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
Main Ref H41 .I58 2001
Encyclopedia of modern American social issues
Main Ref HN57 .K73 1997
Encyclopedia of sociology
Main Ref HM17 .E5 1991, v.1-4
Encyclopedia of American social history
Main Ref HN57 .E58 1993 v.1-3
American social leaders: from colonial times to the present
Main Ref HN65 .M38 1993
Encyclopedia of modern separatist movements
Main Ref HM716 .H48 2000
Encyclopedia of the American left, 2nd ed.
Main Ref HX86 .E58 1998
Polls
Gallup Brain
Searchable database of the thousands of Gallup Polls conducted from 1935 to today. Users
can search questions, results, specific surveys, and associated articles. Also includes
Gallup Poll and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion
and management data analyses.
Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is a compilation of surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time. The pollsters included in the database are: US polling organizations (e.g., Harris International, The Pew Center); universities (e.g., Rice University, University of Maryland); newspapers (e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times); Television news organizations (e.g., CBS, NBS, Fox, CNN); international polling organizations (e.g., Eurobarometer; special interest groups (e.g., Boy Scouts, AFL-CIO).
American public opinion index
Main Ref HM261 .A463 1981-2000
Lists thousands of questions, aranged by subject, which were asked by pollsters from over 140 different polling organizations. The full questions and responses are reproduced in a microfiche collection which is shelved in the Microforms Room as Fiche 1152. Data from 1986+ is contained in Polling the Nations.
Web Sites
Sociosite
http://www.sociosite.net/index.php
"Social science information system based at the University of Amsterdam." Worldwide coverage.
SocioWeb
http://www.socioweb.com
"Your independent guide to sociological resources on the Internet."
Allyn & Bacon Sociology Links
http://www.abacon.com/sociology/soclinks/index.html
Allyn & Bacon is a publisher of sociology textbooks. This useful site contains hundreds of links organized by nearly thirty subtopics.
A Sociology Timeline from 1600
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html
A neat site with numerous links. Find out what was happening at the time these sociologists were living, and read some of their works.
Librarians' Internet Index: Society and Social Sciences
Links to "websites you can trust."