Subject Guide - Sociology

EBSCO

EBSCOhost is a database that provides full-text articles from scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and trade publications. Within EBSCO, you may choose to run a search through all of the databases, or select the database(s) you want.

Academic Search Elite
Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals. Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.

E-Book Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Among the multidisciplinary academic collection of 175,000 e-books, 17,600 sociology books will be accessible with information relevant to the research needs.

E-Book Collection (EBSCOhost)
Among this collection, you may browse the category of Social Sciences to find books covering topics in Sociology.


JSTOR

This database hosts full-text, digital versions of books and academic journals primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences. There are also journals in the hard sciences.

JSTOR journals or books can be searched by the Subject “Sociology” to find academic journals on the subject. You may also search using keywords in the standard search bar or by using the advanced search function


INFOTRAC

Gale Academic OneFile connects the information you are looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. You will find this premier periodical resource that provides millions of articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources with extensive coverage in key subject areas. Journal articles and books can be searched by the subject “Social Sciences.”

Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies
Diversity Studies is a database that provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

Gale OneFile: Gender Studies
Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more. Gender Studies is a database that provides coverage of gender in culture and society with scholarly journals and magazines.


Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)

This resource provides a full list of databases by subject. TEL hosts a wide range of content including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test prep materials, federal census records, and more in every subject imaginable. TEL also connects searchers to results from a multitude of databases through the use of a powerful search engine tool that can be found under “All Resources.” The main page of TEL also has a basic search engine that connects searchers directly to articles and eBooks with keyword searches.

You may go to “All Resources” and search “Sociology” in Gale OneFile to find the information about “Sociology.”


Access World News: NewsBank

This database provides access to newspaper articles from around the world. The search tools on this site allow you to pinpoint articles about your topic by geographic region, publication, date, and more.

It provides Hot Topics for faculty and students with an easier path to locating topics of interest related to current global issues, events and people for personal and course research.

It provides you with suggested search topics in a range of fields. Choose a broad topic (e.g. Social Issues) and subtopic (e.g. family issues), and Access World News will search for recent articles in that area.


InfoBase: World News Digest

This is a database that contains six separate sub-databases: African-American History, Issues & Controversies, Infobasebooks, CREDO Reference, Today’s Science, and World News Digest.

InfobaseBook is a good source for seeking sociology books electronically. You may browse by category or run a basic search for “Sociology.”

African-American History is a good resource for sociologists to study what impact African-American history has had on sociology.