Hekman Library: Sociology Guide: Find Articles and Databases

Recommended Databases

Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature of sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Provides access to the latest research in sociology, social work, and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes citations (and abstracts since 1974) from nearly 2,000 journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

Subjects include community development, demography and human biology, family and social welfare, social psychology and group interactions, welfare services, and women's studies.

Note: When searching this database, you are also searching Social Services Abstracts and Sociology Research Database.
APA PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Provided by the American Psychological Association, APA PsycINFO offers access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. When you search APA PsycINFO, you are also searching the ProQuest Psychology Database and the APA PsycARTICLES database.
Sociology Database (ProQuest)
ProQuest Sociology covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more. Note: When searching this database, you are also searching Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
Social Explorer
Social Explorer is a suite of online tools and data that allow users to visually explore hundreds of thousands of data indicators across demography, economy, health, religion, crime, and more. Users can visualize and interact with data, create reports and downloads for offline processing.
Use Social Explorer to analyze and visualize the characteristics of almost any location. Whether you are interested in markets, voting, poverty, aging populations, ethnicity and race, spending patterns, health indicators, crime, environment, or education, Social Explorer’s easy to use tools will facilitate your analyses. You can see trends and make comparisons over time and place to gain insights and help make decisions.
Anthropological Index
The Anthropological Index Online is a database of articles based on the journal holdings of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum. The index covers the subjects of socio-cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural ethnography, providing a broad geographical range of information in each topic.