SOCIOLOGY 301: Fall 2003 

NOTE: The course syllabus and other related documents are available through Blackboard.

Using and Citing Information Sources

Using and Evaluating Information Sources

• How to Evaluate the Sources You Find
• Is It a Popular Magazine or a Scholary Journal?
• The Spider's Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines
• Evaluating Web Sites

Citing Information

• College Writing and Citing: Sociology - Web resources selected by EC librarians

Where to Go for Help

• Elmhurst College Learning Center
• Writing Center at Elmhurst College

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.
 

* Current issues of these magazines are also available for browsing at the library. Journals and magazines are arranged alphabetically by title.

Articles and Databases

The library owns a selection of books on the topics listed below. To locate specific title and call number information, use Illinet Online. Subject word suggestions are listed after each topic.

Articles on Homelessness

• Elliot, Andrea. 2003. "Record Number of Homelss, But City Says It's Prepared." The New York Times, July 2, pp. B1.
  
  
• 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.

Start Your Internet Search Here:

• Librarians' Index to the Internet - This site includes descriptions and evaluations of Web pages and directories. This is a good place to start for information on social issues. Type the name of the issue in the the search box to find web sites.
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Social Sciences, Humanities, General Reference - This site has a subject browsing area as well as a search box to find information on specific topics.
• SEARCH ENGINES TO TRY:
1. www.altavista.com
2. www.google.com

Then Try These Print and Electronic Sources:

NOTE: Be sure to evaluate each Web site before using the information in your project.

• Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
• Social Criticism Review
• Social Issues - from Multnomah County Library's Homework Center
• Internet Public Library: Social Issues and Social Welfare
• 361.1/S678p Frances V. Moulder, ed. Social Problems of the Modern World: A Reader
• Opposing Viewpoints and Current Controversies - two book series in the library that focus on a number of social issues; try searching for these book series as titles in Illinet Online

• Census Bureau Population Topics
• PopNet
• Population Index on the Web
• United Nations Population Fund
• United Nations Population Information Network
• World POPClock Projection
• 301.32/C826P Corsa and Oakley. Population Planning
• 304.644/F727G Fornos, Werner. Gaining People, Losing Ground (L)
• 301.32/H459S Heer, David. Society and Population
• 301.32/W957P Wrong, Dennis. Population and Society
• R 304.6I61 International Encyclopedia of Population

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• Food Research and Action Center
• Hunger Notes
• Hunger Project
• Second Harvest
• World Hunger Program - Brown University
• 363.88/E56 The Hunger Project. Ending Hunger (R/L)
• 363.8/L316W Lappe, Frances M. World Hunger: Twelve Myths (R)
• 303.44/p993 McCernea, Michael. Putting People First (R)
• 363.17/w425C Weir & Schapiro. Circle of Poison: Pesticides and People in a Hungry World

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• EcoNet
• Eldis: Gateway to Development Information - hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, England
• Global System for Sustainable Development
• Habitat in Developing Countries
• ReliefWeb
• World Bank
• WWW Virtual Library: Sustainable Development
• 330.973/A335P Albin, Peter. Progress Without Poverty
• 330.91724 G562 World Bank. Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries
• 972.8053/B281C Berry & Preusch. Central American Fact Book
• 338.9173/L316A Lappe, Collins & Kinley. Aid as Obstacle (R)
• 338.91/L316B Lappe, Schurman & Danaher. Betraying the National Interest (R)
• 330.91724/WM974P Murdoch, William. The Poverty of Nations
• 330.91724/W927 World Bank. World Development Report (C)
• 338.911724/A229E Adelman, Ruth. Economic Growth and Social Equity in Developing Countries (L/R)
• R 909 K96E1987 The Encyclopedia of the Third World

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• Department of Energy Information and Resources
• EcoNet
• Environmental Protection Agency
• International Institute for Energy Conservation - Resources
• Global Stewards
• Natural Resources Conservation Service - part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
• 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
• 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

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• Counter-Terrorism Archive
• Terrorism in the United States - 1996-1999 reports from the FBI
• Terrorism Research Center
• Terrorist Group Profiles
• Terrorism Library
• U.S. State Department: Counterterrorism Office
• Nacos, Brigitte. "Terrorism, the mass media, and the events of 9-11" - this, and other articles on terrorism, can be found in the Phi Kappa Phi Forum 82:2 (Spring 2002), which is accessible via ProQuest Education Complete; this issue of Phi Kappa Phi Forum is also available on reserve
• 322.42/D635T Dobson, Christopher. The Terrorists
• 301.633/C761 Facts on File. Contemporary Terrorism
• 301.633/L317E Laqueur, Walter. Terrorism
• 322.43/P769 Stohl, Michael (ed.). The Politics of Terrorism
• 301.633/T328 Alexander and Finger. Terrorism: International Perspectives
• R303.62503 C56E Encyclopedia of Terrorism

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• Center for Nonproliferation Studies
• Peace and Conflict
• PeaceNet
• Institute for Media, Peace and Security
• 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)
• 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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