Sociology subject guide

Sociology subject guide

Reserve collection
Check Reserves course or by professor in the Brock Library Catalogue.

Searching the Brock Library Catalogue
Select the subject and/or the keyWORDS search options in the Brock Library Catalogue.Refer to the Library of Congress volumes in order to identify appropriate headings and related terms for a subject search. For a keyWORDS search, enter word(s) from the title, subject, corporate author or notes. If your search retrieves too many items, use the limit option. For further assistance, please inquire at the Reference Information Desk.

Indexes and abstracts (to find journal articles)

Canadian periodical index	REF PER A1 3 C344
Sociological abstracts. 1953-1994.	REF PER HM 1 S67
Social sciences index	REF PER H1 S65

Select Databases on the Brock Library Home Page to access the following:

Academic Search Elite
IDEAL (Academic Press Journals)
CBCA
CINAHL
Elsevier Science
ERIC
Lexis-Nexis
PsycINFO
Sociological Abstracts
Sport Discus
Medline

Statistical resources (a selective list only)

Census of Canada (demographic data)	REF DOC CA1 DS01
Census 1996
Statistical handbook of the United States	REF DOC US1 DD40 A52
Statistical handbook on aging Americans	REF HQ 1046 U5 S343
Statistics Canada catalogue	REF DOC CA1 DS11

Dictionaries and encyclopedias (a selective list only)

Blackwell dictionary of twentieth-century social thought	REF H 41 B53 1993
Blackwell dictionary of sociology	REF HM 17 J64 1995
Concise oxford dictionary of sociology	REF HM 17 C66 1994
Encyclopedia of adolescence	REF HQ 796 E58 1991 v.1-2
Encyclopedia of child abuse	REF HV 6626.5 C57 1989
Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology	REF GN 307 E52 1996
Encyclopedia of relationships across the lifespan	REF HM 132 T83 1996
Encyclopedia of sociology	REF HM17 E5 1992
International encyclopedia of the social sciences	REF H 40 A2 I5
Marriage, family and relationships: a cross-cultural encyclopedia	REF GN 480 B76 1994
Social science encyclopedia	REF H 41 S63 1996

Handbooks (a selective list only)

Bibby report: social trends and beliefs	REF HN 103.5 B5 1995
Canadian fact book on poverty	REF HC 120 P6 R675 1990
Canadian people patterns	REF HB 3529 S38 1990
Guide to writing sociology papers	REF HM 73 G78 1998
Human values and beliefs	REF HM 73 I544 1998
International handbook on alcohol and culture	REF HV 5035 I57 1995
Social indicators of development	REF DOC Z UN XE S53 1990
Sociology: a guide to reference and information sources	REF HM 51 S68 A24 1997

Internet resources

Select subject resources -->social sciences-->sociology from the Brock Library Home Page http://www.brocku.ca/library/research/socio/sochome.htm