Nature & History of Sociological Theory

Scholarly Encyclopedias & Companions

• The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists
  Essays on Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons and others with detailed bibliographies.
• The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists
  Essays on Emerson, Foucault, Elias, Habermas and others with detailed bibliographies.
• The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory
• The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
• Sage Reference Online
  Includes 21st Century Sociology and the Encyclopedia of Social Theory.
• Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
• Cambridge Companion to Durkheim
• Cambridge Companion to Marx
• Cambridge Companion to Chomsky
• Cambridge Companion to Dewey

Find additional Cambridge and Blackwell companions in print with the help of the library's catalog.

Scholarly Journal Articles

Survey scholarly journal articles published in the last 30 years.

• Sociological Abstracts
  Covers sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.

Watch this short tutorial to learn the ins and outs of Sociological Abstracts:

  Your gateway to the full text of journal articles!

Content is available via the following links:  Click on the Article link(s) to go to the full text.
Request from Villanova document delivery or another library:  Submit an interlibrary loan request online. It takes on average 3-5 days for the article to arrive via email.

Full text linking:

• Social Sciences Citation Index
  Provides access to the journal literature in the social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference. Coverage: 1956 to present.
• Social Sciences Full-Text
  Index to international, English language journals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science and law.
• Philosopher's Index
  Indexes and abstracts books and more than 480 journals of philosophy and related fields in many languages.

Please contact your librarian for further database recommendations or consult the Library's subject guide for sociology.

Books on Social Theory

• The Library's Catalog
  The library's catalog has a large selection of book on social theory. Search by keyword, subject or author and limit search results with the topical facets on the results screen.

  Sample subject searches:
  Sociology - History
  Chicago School of Sociology
  Durkheimian School of Sociology
  Frankfurt School of Sociology
  Marxian School of Sociology
  Sociology and "Critical Theory"
  Parsons, Talcott
  

  Try the names of other sociologists as subject searches and sort the results by descending date. You will notice that some of the books in the library's collection review and evaluate the legacy of well known sociologists.

  Example:
  Treviño, A. J. (2001). Talcott Parsons today: his theory and legacy in contemporary sociology. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

• WorldCat
  A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
• Dissertations & Theses Full Text
• E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is usually faster than interlibrary loan, because the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently checked out by somebody else.

Citing Your Sources

• Documenting Source in APA Style
  Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker. Includes sample paper and list of cited reference in APA style.
  Sample APA style paper and list of cited references.
• Export references in APA style for your cited reference list
  Check off all articles in which you are interested and click on Save, Print, Email. The QuickBib feature has a selection of styles available from which you can choose. APA is the most widely used style in the social sciences.

  

• Refworks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.

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