Research Guides: Sociology: Finding Articles

Discipline-Specific Databases

Social Work Abstracts
The Social Work Abstracts database contains more than 45,000 records from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

Maximum of 4 users at the same time.
APA PsycINFO
PsycINFO® database provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Criminal Justice
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Find information for potential lawyers, law enforcement officers, paralegals, and Homeland Security agents from hundreds of full text journals.
Diversity Studies
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More than 150 social studies, history, and liberal arts journals that explore cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
Psychology
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This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time.
Pop Culture Studies
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This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Gender Studies
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This collection of journals covers such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
Religion and Philosophy
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Articles from more than 300 magazines and journals that relate to different religions, philosophies, and how they impact our daily lives.

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, indexes and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications. It covers a range of disciplines such as science, engineering, psychology, religion, and many others.
Academic Onefile
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Academic OneFile includes peer-reviewed and full text articles from journals and reference sources in the subjects of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature, as well as the New York Times.
WilsonWeb OmniFile
Wilson Web OmniFile is a full text database that contains articles from approximately 2,700 publications beginning in 1994 that cover Art, Agriculture, Applied Science, Business, Education, Science, Humanities, Law, Library Science, Social Sciences, Technology, and more.

Online Journals

Union has sociology journals available online. These can be accessed by clicking the "Journals By Title or Subject" link on the library homepage. To search for a specific journal title, simply type the title of the journal in the search bar. If we have access to this journal, options for access will appear under the journal title on the results list.

You can also search for available journal titles by subject. Simply click the subject (sociology) you wish to search and journals will populate the results list alphabetically.

Some of the journals available online include:

Criminal Justice Review
Family and Community History
Forensic Science International
Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
Journal of Family Studies
Journal of Hate Studies

Print Journals

The following journals are available in print in the Periodicals Reading Room on the first floor of the library:

New Yorker
Paris Match
Psychology and Education
Psychology Today
Smithsonian
Sojourners
Word and World
World