Research Guides: Sociology: Home

Welcome to the Sociology Guide

This guide is intended to help sociology students find resources for their studies. It includes scholarly databases and statistics.

Remember Start My Research, the library's broadest search tool, when researching. You can also use one of the subject-specific "best bet" databases on this homepage.

Start My Research
This is the library's main search tool. Search numerous resources available through Auraria Library including journals, articles, media, books, and more. Limit by material type, publication date, author, and more.

Best Bets

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, association papers and reviews in sociology, social science and policy science.
ICPSR This link opens in a new window
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to an archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. Auraria campus users (faculty, staff, students) must register for a personal ICPSR account from an on-campus, networked computer (or a VPN connection) to be able to download data.
Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Supplies statistical data series created from more than 400,000 government and non-government datasets viewable in tables, charts, maps, and graphs. Covers a wide range of business, societal and scientific topics including agriculture, arts, crime, employment and labor, defense, economy, education, energy, environment, geography, government finances, health, households and housing, immigration, politics, population, religion, social services, and transportation. Formerly known as Data Planet.

Websites

Footnotes Magazine
The magazine of the American Sociological Association.
The Society Pages
The Society Pages is an online, multidisciplinary social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. The Society Pages’ mission is to bring social scientific knowledge and information to broader public visibility and influence.
Everyday Sociology Blog
Interesting, informative, and entertaining commentary from sociologists around the United States.

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