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.
  • 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.
  • Sage Journals Contains more than 400 journals in the social sciences, humanities, and life sciences
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
 

Conservative  Liberal  Radical 

* 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

Animal Rights Development Ecology/Energy/Environment
Global Hunger Genocide/Holocaust/Social Justice Overpopulation
Global Poverty War/Peace Terrorism

Development— New Orleans Post Katrina

   
     

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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:
  • 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

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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

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Global Hunger  Subject words: hunger, food supply, food relief

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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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