SOCIOLOGY
301: Fall 2008
SOCIAL
PROBLEMS
Dr. Brenda Forster
Solution
Analysis Research
Articles
and Databases
- Academic
Search Complete : A general database that contains both scholarly
and popular journal sources, many in full text. Be sure to evaluate
the sources in these databases before using them.
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- JSTOR:
An electronic archives of titles, often going back to the first
issue of a journal's existence. JSTOR does not include current
issues of journals.
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- Sage Journals Contains more than 400 journals in the social sciences, humanities, and life
sciences
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- SocIndex: Now full text. Topics covered include urban studies, anthropology, criminology
and criminal justice, ethnic and racial studies, marriage and
the family, social psychology, and sociological theory.
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- Sociological
Abstracts (1962-present): A print reference source containing
citations from sociology journals. It is shelved alphabetically
in the Bound Periodicals section of the library.
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Use I-Share
Online to determine if the library owns the journal in print or microfilm,
and check Alphabetical
List of Journals Online for electronic access to journals. If the
article you seek is unavailable from these sources, please request it
through our online Interlibrary
Loan article request form.
The library owns a selection
of books on the topics listed below. To locate specific
title and call number information, use I-Share
Online. Subject word suggestions are listed after each topic.
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Internet
Resources
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Good
Print and Electronic Sources
NOTE: Be sure to evaluate
each Web site before using the information in your project.
| General
Resources |
Subject words:
social problems, social issues |
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Article Resources
Sometimes it is difficult to determine whether a magazine's focus is conservative, liberal or radical. One way to determine this is by using Magazines for Libraries by William and Linda Sternberg Katz (R 050.25 M189, located near the Reference Desk). The magazines listed below are a sample of various points-of-view to get you started.
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Liberal
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Radical
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* Current issues of these magazines are also available for browsing at the library. Journals and magazines are arranged alphabetically by title.
Please keep in mind that online versions of magazines may not contain all of the articles in a particular issues, or allow you full access to the entirity of an article. To get the full text of the article, check our list of journals and newspapers available online; then search for your article in the appropriate database. |
Subject-Specific
Sources
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| Animal
Rights |
Subject
words: animal welfare, animals and civilization, laboratory
animals, animal experimentation, animal rights |
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| Development |
Subject
words: economic development, sustainable development, economic
assistance |
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| Development New Orleans Post Katrina |
Subject
words: Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Hurricanes --Louisiana --New Orleans, |
- Justiceforneworleans.org
- http://katrina.mayfirst.org/
- Commom Ground Relief
- New Orleans Indy Media
- Faubourg Treme [videorecording]: the untold story of Black New Orleans / A documentary by Lolis Eric Elie & Dawn Logsdon. Published: Berkeley, CA: Serendipity Films LLC, 2008. Call # VIDEO 973.76335 F255 (ask at Circulation Desk).
- The Katrina experience [videorecording]: the power of culture to heal / curated by Nancy Buirski, artistic director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ; a production of Independent Film Development Group. Indiepix, 2006. Call # VIDEO 363.34922 K19 (ask at Circulation Desk).
- Storm that drowned a city. [videorecording / written, produced, and directed by Caroline Penry-Davey, Peter Chinn; a Pioneer production for Nova in association with WGBH/Boston, Five, Spiegel TV and Arte; executive producer for Pioneer Productions, Mike Beckham. Call # VIDEO 363 .3492 .S885 (ask at Circulation Desk).
- When the levees broke [videorecording]: a requiem in four acts / HBO Documentary Films and 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks present a Spike Lee Film; producers, Sam Pollard and Spike Lee; director, Spike Lee. Call # VIDEO 363.3492 W567 (ask at Circulation Desk
- Hudson, Audrey and Sean Lengell. “Katrina collects a bundle; Outstrips U.S Marshall Plan spending after World War II.” The Washington Times. 30 August 2007. Access in LexisNexis Academic.
- Books:
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363.34922 T398 There is no such thing as a natural disaster: race, class, and Hurricane Katrina. Hartman, Chester and Gregory D. Squires, eds.
- 976.335 H815b Breach of faith : Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American city,
Jed Horne
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| Ecology/Energy/Environment |
Subject
words: energy, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Natural Resources, Environment and Man, Mass Media and the Environment, Global Environmental Change, Green Movement, Energy Conservation, Renewable Energy Sources, human ecology, ecology, population biology, chemical
ecology, global environment change, habitat (ecology), nuclear power
plants (or other items, e.g. agricultural chemicals) --environmental
aspects |
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Coalition
of the Environment and Jewish Life
- Department
of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- EcoNet
- Environmental
Protection Agency
- Interfaith
Climate Change Network
- International
Institute for Energy Conservation
- Global
Stewards
- Natural
Resources Conservation Service - part of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture
- Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism: Fair Trade Coffee
- State
Energy Alternatives
- What
You Can Do: For The Home ~ environmentally safe practices
- The Simple Living Network (Radical)
- Forest Stewardship Council
- Marine Stewardship Council
- H.M. Johnson & Associates, Seafood Marketing Information and Analysis for Decision-Makers
- 333.72 E61f The Environment in Crisis: An Environmental Reader from Dollars & Sense Fireside, Daniel, et al.
- 337 R288 2007 Real world globalization : a reader in economics, business and politics from Dollars & Sense,Rakocy, Betsy, Alejandro Reuss, Chris Sturr, and Dollars & Sense Collective
- The Green State : rethinking democracy and sovereignty Eckersley, Robyn. (e-book--search title in I-Share)
- 304.2/W134E Wagner, Richard.
Environment and Man
- 333.7/G112E Gabel, Medard.
Energy, Earth, and Everyone
- 333.7/G675E Gorz, Andre.
Ecology and Politics
- 304.2/H926C Humphrey &
Buttel. Environment, Energy, and Society
- 363.700973 P887 Pellow, David N. Power, justice, and the environment
- 337 R288 Amy Offner [et
al.], ed. Real World Globalization: A Reader in Economics and Politics,
8th ed.
- 320.58 R438 Higgs, Robert. Re-thinking green : alternatives to environmental bureaucracy
- National Geographic
November 1993. "Water: The Power, Promise and Turmoil of North America's
Fresh Water."
- Yearbook of Agriculture
(multiple volumes). See Agriculture and the Environment, 630U58Y1991
1991.
- R 363.7003 C755 Conservation
and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia
- Jackson, Jeremy, et al. "Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems".Science, July 27, 2001. (Radical)
- Hites, Ronald, et al. "Global Assessments of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon", Science January 9, 2004. (Radical)
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| Genocide-Holocaust-Social
Justice |
Subject
words: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust denial, Romanies
(or other groups)--Nazi persecution genocide, genocide--Bosnia and Hercegovina (or other countries), crimes against humanity, Ethnopsychology, Totalitarianism, Persecution , World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, Refugees |
- Elmhurst
College Holocaust Project and Guestship - includes information on
doing library research as well as web links
- The
Holocaust History Project
- The
Kindertransport Association
- Multimedia
Learning Center: Museum of Tolerance Online - Simon
Wiesenthal Center
- The
Nizkor Project
- A
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - University of South Florida
- Voices
of the Holocaust - Illinois Institute of Technology
- The Armenian Genocide
- Armenian National Institute
- The Cambodian Genocide Program
- Famine-Genocide in Ukraine 1933
- Genocide Watch
- Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide
- Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
- Rwanda Genocide: Ten Years On
- Srebrencia: A Cry from the Grave
- Web Genocide Documentation Centre -- viewable in Internet Explorer only
- Yale Genocide Studies Program
- Sells, Michael. The bridge betrayed: religion and genocide in Bosnia [electronic book]
- 940.5318072 I73 2001 Rosenbaum, Alan S. Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide
- 304.66309 S741 edited by Gellately, Robert, and Ben Kiernan (eds.). The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective
- 364.1510904 R768n Ronayne, Peter. Never Again?: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Since the Holocaust
- Minow, Martha. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence [electronic resource]
- 940.5318/F529h Fischel,
Jack R. The Holocaust
- VIDEO 940.5318/P985t (at
Circulation Desk) Purple Triangles: The True Story of a German Family
- VIDEO 940.5318 J47w (at
Circulation Desk) Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault
- 261.26/C276S Cargas, Harry
J. Shadows of Auschwitz: A Christian Response to the Holocaust
- 940.5318/C737h Bard, Mitchell
G. (ed.). The Complete History of the Holocaust
- 940.5318/H754r Morgan,
Michael L. (ed.). A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination
- 940.5318/B496f Berger,
Ronald J. Fathoming the Holocaust: A Social Problems Approach
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| Global Hunger |
Subject
words: hunger, food supply, food relief |
- Center
on Hunger and Poverty
- Food
Research and Action Center
- Hunger
Notes
- The
Hunger Project
- HungerWeb
- Second
Harvest
- State
of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI)
- Bread for the World
- 363.88/E56 The Hunger Project.
Ending Hunger (Radical/Liberal)
- 363.8/L316W Lappe, Frances
M. World Hunger: Twelve Myths (Radical)
- 303.44/p993 McCernea, Michael.
Putting People First (Radical)
- 363.17/w425C Weir &
Schapiro. Circle of Poison: Pesticides and People in a Hungry World
- Elliot, Andrea. 2003. "Record
Number of Homelss, But City Says It's Prepared." The New York
Times, July 2, pp. B1.
- Jenkins, Maureen. "On a spending diet: Anti-consumption movement aims at happier living by buying just what's needed" Chicago Sun Times, January 18, 2006. (Radical) Available in Lexs-Nexis. For assistance with finding articles in Lexis-Nexis, please visit, call or IM the reference desk.
- Morse, Jodie, Ann Blackman,
Cathy Booth, Elaine Rivera, and James Willwerth. 1999.
"Cracking Down on the Homeless." Time, December 20, pp. 69.
- Stein, Joel, Simon Crittle,
Jyoti Thottam, Laura A. Locke, Deborah Edler Brown, Margot Roosevelt,
Tim Padgett, Melissa August, Adam Pitluk, Greg Land, and Matt Baron.
2003. "The
Real Face of Homelessness." Time, January 20, pp. 54.
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| Overpopulation |
Subject
words: population, population forecasting, population statistics,
human ecology |
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| Global Poverty |
Subject
words: poverty, basic needs, subsistence economy, poor, homelessness,
poor women,Refugees, Forced Migration, Famines, Starvation, Food Relief |
- Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center
on Hunger and Poverty
- Moving
Ideas: Poverty and Wealth
- National
Center for Children in Poverty
- PovertyNet
- A
Profile of the Working Poor
- U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services: Poverty Guidelines, Research,
and Measurement
- 362.58 G199W The War Against the Poor: the underclass and antipoverty policy. Gans, Herbert.
- 362.5 P34B Payne, Ruby K.
, Philip DeVol, Terie Dreussi Smith Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies
for Professionals and Communities
- 362.8392 H425F Hays, Sharon
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
- 363.8 D437w DeRose, Laurie,
Ellen Messer, and Sara Millman Who's Hungry? And How Do We Know?:
Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation
- 362.5 C514N Cheal, David
New Poverty: Families in Postmodern Society
- 337 I73g Isaak, Robert
A. The Globalization Gap: How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get
Left Further Behind
- 330.973 R288. Dollars &
Sense. Real World Macro: A Macroeconomics Reader from Dollars and
Sense. (Radical)
- 331.2153 A328u. Albelda,
Randy, Robert W. Drago, Steven Shulman. Unlevel Playing Fields:
Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination, 2nd. ed. (Radical)
- 339.22 W362 Dollars &
Sense and United for a Fair Economy, eds.The Wealth Inequality Reader.
(Radical)
- 331.798 B642w Blank, Rebecca, S. Danziger, and R. Schoeni.Working and poor : how economic and policy changes are affecting low-wage
workers.
- 305.569 N553c Newman, Katherine S. Chutes and ladders : Navigating the low-wage labor market .
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| Terrorism |
Subject
words: terrorism |
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| War/Peace |
Subject
words: war and civilization, social conflict, war and society,
peace, arms race |
- Center
for Nonproliferation Studies
- Nonviolence.org:
Links
- Peace
and Conflict Studies
- PeaceNet
- Peace,
Nonviolence, and Conflict Resolution (from the Mahatma Gandhi site)
- Resource
Center for Nonviolence
- United
States Institute of Peace
- Veterans
for Peace
- 303.6/W414C Wehr, Paul.
Conflict Regulation
- R310/S624W Sivard, Ruth.
World Military and Social Expenditures (L)
- 355.02/W253A Bender and
Leone (eds.). War and Human Nature
- 355.02/W952S Wright, Quincy.
A Study of War
- 355.02/F996 Barnaby, Frank
(ed). Future War
- 327.1/T627 Woito, Robert.
To End War (R/L)
- Dollars & Sense. 2004.
Real World Globalization: A Reader in Economics and Politics,
8th ed. Amy Offner [et al.], ed. Somerville, MA: Dollars & Sense.
Main collection: 337 R288
- 327.11/266W Ziegler, David.
War, Peace, and International Politics
- 341/W839 World Alliance
for International Friendship. Building International Goodwill
- 261.873/A652W Apple, White
& Harry. Waging Peace
- 355.0217/C993U Cuzzort,
R.P. Using Social Thought: The Nuclear Issue and Other Concerns
- 355.0217/B225A Barash, David.
The Arms Race and Nuclear War
- R327.17203 W927 World
Encyclopedia of Peace
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Created 27 August
1999 by Elaine Fetyko Page, assisted by Laura Kelly
Last revised
22 August, 2008
by Peg Cook, Assistant
Reference Librarian
A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College
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