Sociology
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
The Penguin dictionary of sociology
Browsing the Shelves:
You can also browse the Catalogue, or the shelves at the following call numbers -
H Social Sciences
HM Sociology (General)
HN Social History & Conditions: Social Problems: Social Reform
HQ Family: Marriage: Women
HT Communities: Classes: Races
HV Social Pathology: Social & Public Welfare: Criminology
RA Public Health
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text
Indexes articles from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books in the social sciences and humanities. Some references are available in full text.
Includes journals, magazines and newspapers on a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. I
Proquest Social Science Journals
Links to full text journals in the areas of social science and humanities. Formerly known as Social Sciences Plus text. Subjects include gerontology, economics, international relations, minority studies and urban studies.
Abstracts and indexes literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences
Web of Science (via the Web of Knowledge)
Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.
Browse all databases for Sociology
Multimedia
Multimedia Service Video Streaming on Demand
Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Australian
statistical internet sites --
This site, maintained by the National Library of Australia lists general
internet sites for Australian statistics.
Crime and criminal
justice statistics --
This site provides access to Australian and international statistics on crime
and criminal justice by subject or jurisdiction. Data is drawn from a variety
of sources.
Office of Economic and
Statistical Research
A web site containung a wide range of demographic, economic and social data
relating to the State of Queensland.
The WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been incorporated into the Global Health Observatory (GHO) to provide you with more data, more tools, more analysis and more reports.
Web Sites
TASA - The Australian Sociological Association Sociological Gateways
A Sociological Tour through Cyberspace. Good starting point. Fully annotated list of sites for general sociology resources, sociological theory, data resources, methods and statistics, and specific subjects. Also includes essays on sociology theory and practice as well as a guide to writing a research paper.
Megasite produced by the Sociological Institute of the University of Amsterdam to provide access to European and worldwide resources of academic sociology.
A comprehensive, independent guide to sociology resources on the Internet divided into twelve categories including Internet Indexes and Guides, Commercial Sites, Journals and 'Zines, Sociological Theory, Surveys and Statistics, Topical Research, and University Departments.
SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
Offers a catalog of selected, annotated Internet resources in the social sciences, business, and law, plus a search engine for over 50,000 social science web pages.
WWW Virtual Library: Social Sciences.
A composite of many social sciences web sites. Includes data sets, electronic journals and newsletters, organizations, and other sociology resources.
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