Sociology Resources

This selection of specialized resources in Sociology is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list.

Finding Articles

Use indexes to find references to periodical articles and to other
materials such as books, book chapters, dissertations, etc. In some
cases, links to the full texts are provided. This list is limited to indexes that are relevant to the general field of sociology. For other indexes,see Fondren's list of Indexes and Other Databases

Online Indexes

Academic Search Complete (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Contemporary Women's Issues (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.

FedStats

Fedstats includes statistical information from 14 United States agencies. Links to many additional agencies are provided.

Hispanic American Periodicals

The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) covers over 400 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities, or treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics. A guide to searching the Hispanic American Periodicals Index is available online. (1970- updated annually)

Index to Current Urban Documents | includes Full Text

ICUD Online is a fully searchable index of reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada.

JSTOR | includes Full Text | Source List

JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)

LexisNexis Academic | includes Full Text | Source List

Includes government and legal information with access to government and political news, legal news, and state and federal statutes and case law. Also includes law reviews, state and country profiles and other news and reference resources.

LexisNexis Statistical | includes Full Text

Provides indexing and abstracts for a wide range of statistical sources from U.S. federal, U.S. state, and international/non-governmental organization publications. Corresponds to the print indexes American Statistics Index, Index to International Statistics, and Statistical Reference Index.

Polling the Nations

Polling the Nations compiles 300,000 questions and responses from more than 12,000 surveys conducted in the United States and 70 other countries.

Social Sciences Citation Index see Web of Knowledge

 

Sociological Abstracts | includes Full Text

Sociological Abstracts covers 3,000 journals (and some books) in sociology, social planning/policy, and related subjects. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1963-)

Web of Knowledge previously known as Web of Science | includes Full Text

The Web of Science is an integrated database of three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. (minimum 1975- (see description))

Women's Studies International

Includes over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts (1984-), Women's Studies Database, New Books on Women & Feminism, WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies, Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography, The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines, European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography and Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research. (1972-)

Print Indexes

Criminal Justice Abstracts

Holdings:  1977-current

Call Number:  HV 6001.C73  REFERENCE

Contains references with abstracts to journal articles, reports, dissertations and books.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

Holdings:  1900-

Call Number:  AI3 .R48  REFERENCE

An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals.

(Other available formats:  Currently 1963-1982 available online via Readers Guide Retrospective)

Women Studies Abstracts

Holdings:  1972-

Call Number:  HQ1101 .W64  REFERENCE

(Other available formats:  online access from 1984 on available through Women's Studies International.)

Finding Books

WebCat
Look for books in Fondren Library by searching Fondren's catalog.

WorldCat
To find books not in WebCat, look in this index of books held by over 15,000 libraries.

Other Libraries' Catalogs
A list of links to other libraries' online catalogs.

Interlibrary Loan
Rice students, staff, and faculty can borrow books and other materials not in Fondren.

Online Text Collections

Past Masters

Rice's access to this collection includes works by the following authors and the following packages: Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Jane Austen, A.J. Ayer, Jeremy Benthem, George Berkeley (Bishop of Clyne), Robert Boyle, British Philosophy: 1600-1900, Charlotte Brontë, Fanny Burney, John Calvin, Samuel Coleridge, R.G. Collingwood, The Continental Rationalists, Anne, Conway, Charles Darwin, Donald Davidson, John Dewey, René Descartes, John Dewey, Charles Dickens, The Eighteenth Century, Frederick Engels, Adam Ferguson, Johann Fichte, William Gladstone, Thomas, Hardy, Georg Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanual Kant, Kierkegaard, G. W. Leibniz, John Locke, Martin Luther, Katherine Mansfield, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, Modern Era (1800-1950), Nietzsche, William of Ockham, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Charles Sanders Peirce, Plato, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill, Alexander Pope, Romantic Age, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry Sidgwick, Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Max Weber, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wordsworths (Letters of) and William Butler Yeats. See the database for specific titles.

Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000

"This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history ... The website provides learning modules in the form of mini-monographs, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement. Each module contains fifteen to twenty documents that address the question"--"About" page.

Microform Sets

American Public Opinion Data 1981-

Call Number:  HM 261.A463  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  American Public Opinion Index, Vols.for 1981-2000

Reference Works

Blackwell Dicitonary of Twentieth Century Social Thought. Blackwell: 1993.

Call Number:  H41 .B53 1993   REFERENCE

Articles on major concepts in social thought.

Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociological Language. 2nd ed. Blackwell: 2000.

Available Online

Call Number:  HM17 .J64 2000   REFERENCE

Dictionary of sociological terms and biographical sketches of major figures in sociology.

Other available formats:  Online

Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in Sociology 1895-1974. Carrollton Press: 1978.

Call Number:  Z7161.C17   REFERENCE

A single source for finding publications predating inclusion by print and online indexing and abstracting services.

Encyclopedia of American Social History. Scribner: 1993.

Call Number:  HN57 .E58 1993   REFERENCE

Essays discuss a range of topics such as homelessness and race.

Encyclopedia of Sociology. Macmillan Reference: 2000.

Call Number:  HM425 .E5 2000   REFERENCE

International Bibliography of Sociology. Routledge.

Holdings:  v.5 (1955)-v.51 (2001)

Call Number:  Z7161 .I594   REFERENCE

A good source for internationally published books and journal articles.

International Encyclopedia of Population. Free Press: 1982.

Call Number:  HB849.2 .I55 1982   REFERENCE

International Encyclopedia of Sociology. Fitzroy, Dearborn: 1995.

Call Number:  HM 17 .I52 1995   REFERENCE

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier Science: 2001.

Call Number:  H41 .I58 2001   REFERENCE

Lexikon des Mittelalters online

The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Users can perform automatic bibliographic searches in the International Medieval Bibliography Online.

Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Helen Tierney. Greenwood: 1999.

Call Number:  HQ1115 .W645   REFERENCE

Websites

The websites listed here are limited to those which offer broad coverage of sociology sites and those with links to a large number of reputable survey and public opinion resources.

Public Opinion Polls on the Internet

A well-organized guide from the University of Miami Libraries.

Sociology Virtual Library

The sites on the page are evaluated and selected by Carl Cuneo, a sociologist at McMaster University. This is a part of the huge WWW Virtual Library.

SocioSite

Based at the University of Amersterdam, The Netherlands, this site covers a variety of subjects ranging from leaders in the discipline to sociology humor.

SocioWeb

A general site with links to other subject websites, survey and statistical information, electronic literature, and sociology departments.

Washington Post Data Directory

The Data Directory is a guide to public opinion data published on the Internet by nonpartisan organizations.

GIS/Data Center

The staff of Fondren's GIS/Data Center can help you combine statistical and geographical information. See their web site for more information and for examples of projects which have used the Center's sophisticated resources.