Warren Hunting Smith Library: Sociology: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | SOCIOLOGY

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some example search combinations for Sociology:

gender AND "race relations"
"cancel culture" AND "social media"
"social justice" OR "social movements"

Scholarly Articles

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts cover the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
ProQuest Social Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for articles in subjects specific to the social sciences on ProQuest.
Social Sciences Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles from fields covered in the social sciences from 1994 to the present.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary access to scholarly and popular articles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.

Data and Statistics

ICPSR Social Science Data This link opens in a new window
Datasets from the social sciences, such as crime stats and voting patterns.

Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Includes public opinion polling and demographic research related to U.S. politics, social trends, media, technology, and science.

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Customizable mapped census data.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics, reports, and infographics relating to research studies and data.

Streaming Video

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary streaming video content, mostly documentaries, but including a smaller subset of feature films.
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
Documentaries, interviews, and archival footage surveying the black experience (a subset of AVON).
Current Affairs In Video This link opens in a new window
Films and documentaries emphasizing critical political issues (a subset of AVON).
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork (a subset of AVON).
Health and Society in Video This link opens in a new window
Documentaries focused on health issues and their impact on society (a subset of AVON).
Sociology in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window

Primary Source Material

African American Communities This link opens in a new window
Primary sources about Black communities and identity.
Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new window
Primary source material for the exploration of gender history.

Sociology