Sociology

 

 

Databases

AIDSearch - Subject index to HIV and AIDS research (free registration required) America History and Life - Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book and media reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from more than 2,100 journals in forty languages. Click here for the journal titles indexed. Child Abuse and Neglect Index - Subject index but free registration required HAPI: Health & Psychosocial Instruments Database - Material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians, such as questionnaires, interviews, tests, rating scales, and coding schemes. Related back to top ASSIA = Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts - Indexes 650 journals in economics, education, health, politics, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. County and City Data Books (GEOSTAT) Contains the online version of the 1988 and 1994 Data Books. Health Reference Center includes some FULL TEXT articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, etc., from 1994. PsycArticles - contains more than 25,000 FULL TEXT articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. Links available through PsycInfo. Click here for list of journals. Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA) includes the full text of 30 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 22 years, and encompasses over 21,600 articles. Subjects covered include applied psychology, assessment, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, and social psychology. PsycInfo contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports. Summaries of world literature in psychology and related disciplines; over 1700 periodicals in 27 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year through weekly updates. Social Sciences Abstracts Extensive index to scholarly articles in professional journals. SocIndex FT new - offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for 640 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. Sociology SAGE Collection - Full text of 34 SAGE sociology journals from 1967 to the present. Twelve journals are available from their first issues.
Topics

Auguste Comte – Positivism

Science vs. Religion in the 17th and 18th centuries

Charles Darwin – Evolution

Herbert Spencer – Capitalism

Max Weber

Emile Durkheim

Karl Marx

Charles Horton Cooley

Functionalism – the Chicago School

Symbolic Interaction

Conflict Theory

Early sports history

Do cats and dogs have culture?

The Death Penalty – Its history

Gang culture

Albert Schweitzer – His reverence for life.  Do you see evidence of it today?

Henry David Thoreau – Deviant or not?

Thomas Szasz – The anti-medical model

Ethnocentrism – Should we become a bilingual society?

Taliban culture

Milgram’s experiment on obedience

Zimbardo’s experiment on role-playing

Protestant ethic

John Calvin – Calvinism

Socialized medicine

Who are the Luddites?

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT HOPE
2500 SOUTH MAIN   P.O. BOX 140   HOPE, ARKANSAS  71802  (870) 777-5722  FAX (870) 777-5957