Sociology 21:
Sociology of Family
Spring 2008
Finding Books and Articles
Five College Library Catalog: Search for books in all Five Colleges, or just in one. If a book you want is not at Amherst, you can request it through the catalog for free via FCD, and it will be delivered here for you.
Sociological Abstracts : The most important database of references to all types of publications in sociology. Use ACLinks to locate actual articles.
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences): A great way to search several related disciplines (sociology, gender studies, psychology, etc.) at once.
PsycInfo : Index covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related areas, including sociology.
GenderWatch -- fulltext articles, gender across a full spectrum of subjects.
Academic OneFile and Academic
Search Premier: Indexes to articles in many disciplines -- with lots of fulltext. Book
reviews as well as critical articles.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts : Covers the contents of 650 journals in many areas of social sciences.
JSTOR provides fulltext access to backfiles (not current issues) of several sociology journals, including: Annual Review of Sociology. Current issues available through: Annual Review of Sociology.
Getting the article or book that you want...
Journal
Locator/Citation Linker See if a journal is available
at AC; connect to electronic copies or look in library catalog for print
journals
InterLibrary Loan -- Request books not in the Five Colleges, and journal articles not at AC. Free to you!
Request we buy a book you need, and the library doesn't own.
Surveys, Polls, and Data
Social and Demographic Trends: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Pew Research Center
LexisNexis Academic Universe -- gigantic fulltext database of newspapers, great source for locating surveys.
U.S. Census Bureau is a major producer of data about American families, including:
Households and Families: Census 2000
2000 Census Shows Interracial Marriage Gender Gaps Remain Large
America's Families and Living Arrangements, 2003 (pdf)
America's Families and Living Arrangements, 2006 and an interesting table of detailed race/hispanic status interracial couples.
Historic Interracial Marriage Tables (1960-1990)
Citing Sources
Be sure to credit the sources you use for a research project -- whether printed books and journals or online texts, statistics, websites, etc. The Bibliography Styles Handbook: APA Style from the University of Illianois tells you how to cite all kinds of sources for courses in the social sciences.
Questions? Contact Susan Edwards (email:seedwards; voice: 542-2676)