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Sociology

Search books on EBSCO Discovery
 

After you've done some background reading on your topic, the next logical step is to locate books that will help you begin your bibliography and further your research.

Tip: Use keyword searching to locate books by topic or subject. Find a book that looks promising and open up the record to see what other subject headings that pertain to your topic. Select those and see what other books we may have that share those subject headings. 

Remember .... Take advantage of technology.... take your laptop along with you into the stacks to help you find what you need!

TIPS:

  • Try searching terms in the notes field, as well as the title and subject fields (see screenshot above).

Here are a few search terms to get you started.

This is not an exhaustive list.

  • Applied sociology

  • Crime -- Sociological aspects

  • Death -- Social aspects

  • Educational sociology

  • Household surveys

  • Individualism

  • Knowledge, Sociology of

  • Poor 

  • Poverty

  • Religion and sociology

  • Social ethics

  • Social problems

  • Socialization

  • Sociology, Urban

  • Spatial analysis (Statistics)

  • Urban policy

You can also search by Tribe or Ethnic Group (such as the Navajo or Hmong).

Need a book the library does not own?

You can request the book through Interlibrary Loan.  Info and a downloadable form are available here!

To search for books available in other libraries, try using

WorldCat -- Search the holdings of more than 10,000 libraries to locate books and identify citation information.

OR

Library of Congress -- Access to the Library of Congress catalog and other online collections.

NOTE: Users do not need to identify a library that owns the book. Simply provide the appropriate information on the form and library staff will do the rest!