SOCIOLOGY 301: Fall 2004
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Dr. Brenda Forster
NOTE: The course handbook 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
- Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
Citing Information
- College Writing and Citing: Sociology - Web resources selected by EC librarians
Where to Go for Help
Popular News Sources
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.
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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.
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NOTE: Links to some
of the library resources listed below will not work when this page
is accessed from off-campus. To use these resources, please go to
the Library Web Page,
where you can connect to Articles
and Databases, Reference
Sources, and Electronic
Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst College
email login and password. If you do not know your E.C. login and
password, please see Computer Services, Room 107 CSTC. See more
on accessing
library resources from off campus.
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Articles and Databases
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Use Illinet
Online to determine if the library owns the journal in print or
microfilm, and check Journals
and Magazines Available 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 Illinet Online. Subject word suggestions are listed after each topic.
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:
- The Annual Editions - Social Problems 04/05 textbook has an online companion site which includes relevant Web sites.
- Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Social Issues, 12th ed., also has an online companion site with Web links.
- Click the down arrow in the drop-down menu to access Web Destinations and other helpful resources for each chapter of Social Problems, 8th ed.
Then Try These 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 |
- 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
- CQ Researcher (available on campus only) - this weekly publication examines the many viewpoints behind many common controversies and social issues. Recent issues have focused on genocide, homelessness, and gangs
| Subject-Specific Sources |
| Population | Hunger | Development | Ecology/Energy | Terrorism |
| War/Peace | Animal Rights | Holocaust-Social Justice | Genocide |
| Population | Subject words: population, population forecasting, population statistics, human ecology |
- 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
| Hunger | Subject words: hunger, food supply, food relief |
- 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
- 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.
| Development | Subject words: economic development, sustainable development, economic assistance |
- 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
| Ecology/Energy | Subject words: energy, human ecology |
- Department of Energy Information and Resources
- EcoNet
- Environmental Protection Agency
- International Institute for Energy Conservation
- 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
| Terrorism | Subject words: terrorism |
- Counter-Terrorism Archive
- FBI: War on Terrorism, Counterterrorism
- 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
| War/Peace | Subject words: war and civilization, social conflict, war and society, peace, arms race |
- 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
| Animal Rights | Subject words: animal welfare, animals and civilization, laboratory animals, animal experimentation, animal rights |
- Animal Rights Law Project - Rutgers University
- PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights
- The Animal Concerns Community
- ALDF: Animal Legal Defense Fund
- The Humane Society of the United States
- American Anti-Vivisection Society
- 179.3/M39931990 Mason and Singer. Animal Factories (R)
- 179.3/N579a Nibert, David Alan. Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation
- 670.724/W461A Welsh, Heidi J. Animal Testing and Consumer Products
- 179.3/A5981996 Harnack, Andrew (ed.). Animal Rights: Opposing Viewpoints
- 179.3/R571an Roleff, Tamara L. (ed.). The Rights of Animals
- 179.3/J39A Jasper and Nelkin. The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest
- 179.4/A598o Cothran, Helen (ed.). Animal Experimentation: Opposing Viewpoints
| Holocaust-Social Justice | Subject words: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust denial, Romanies (or other groups)--Nazi persecution |
- The Nizkor Project
- The Holocaust History Project
- A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - University of South Florida
- Remember.org
- Multimedia Learning Center: Museum of Tolerance Online - Simon Wiesenthal Center
- The Kindertransport Association
- Voices of the Holocaust - Illinois Institute of Technology
- Elmhurst College Holocaust Project and Guestship - includes information on doing library research as well as web links
- 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
| Genocide | Subject words: genocide, genocide--Bosnia and Hercegovina (or other countries), crimes against humanity |
- Genocide Watch
- Yale Genocide Studies Program
- Famine-Genocide in Ukraine 1933
- Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide
- Web Genocide Documentation Centre
- The Armenian Genocide
- Armenian National Institute
- Rwanda Genocide: Ten Years On
- The Cambodian Genocide Program
- Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
- Srebrencia: A Cry from the Grave
- 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]
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Created 27 August 1999 by Elaine Fetyko
Page, assisted by Laura Kelly
Last revised
3 September, 2004
by Ayanna Gaines, Assistant
Reference Librarian
A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College