Reviewing the Literature in Sociology Research Guide

How to Do?

•  Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
  3rd floor, Falvey Library: H61.8 .G3 1999
• The Sociology Student Writer's Manual
  3rd edition, 2002
  1st floor, Falvey Library, Reference Stacks: REFHM585 .S638 2002
  See pp. 188-193 on literature reviews.
• Preparing Literature Reviews: Qualitative and Quanitative Approaches
  4th floor, Falvey Library
  3rd edition, 2008: Q180.55.E9 P36 2008
  2nd edition, 2004: Q180.55.E9 P36 2004
• The Academic Writer's Toolkit: A User's Manual
  3rd floor, Falvey Library: PE1408 .B477 2008

Help with Questions About Theories, Concepts, and Definitions

• Encyclopedia of Sociology
  See entries on Social Capital and Social Networks.
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  See entry on Social Capital.
• Encyclopedia of Social Theory
  2 volumes, 1st floor, Falvey Library, Reference Stacks: REFHM425 .E47 2005
• The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods
  3 volumes, 1st floor, Falvey Library, Reference Stacks: REFH62 .L456 2004
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
  26 volumes, 1st floor, Falvey Library, Reference Stacks: REFH41 .I58 2001

For more subject specific encyclopedias click here.

Reviewing the Scholarly Sociological Literature Published in Books

• The Library's online catalog
• WorldCat
  A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
• 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, since 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.

Reviewing Sociological Dissertations and Theses

• Dissertations & Theses Full Text
  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and full text is available from 1997 on.

Reviewing Scholarly Journal Articles

• Sociological Abstracts
  Covers sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Journals published by sociological associations, groups, faculties and institutes, and periodicals containing the term "sociology" in their titles are abstracted fully.

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Style Guides and Citation Management Software

• Research and Documentation Online.
  Guide to the major documentation styles
• 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.