American Sociological Association (ASA) - provides access to academic and professional resources, lists of publications, annual meeting video archive, and information on public engagement.
The Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) - is committed to serving sociologists in our region–faculty, applied professionals, and students—by providing opportunities for networking and professional development designed to advance scholarly research, promote high-quality teaching and mentorship, and encourage applied sociology for the public good. We strive to create a professional community that reflects the diversity of our region and enhances the diversity of our discipline.
Resources for Topic Ideas
CQ Researcher - a collection of weekly research reports on recent news topics and issues of broad interest in the public policy sphere. Reports address a wide variety of subjects, including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Opposing Viewpoints - allows researchers to read the overview of a topic, featured viewpoints, view infographics, videos, news, and read articles from academic journals. Researchers can browse by issue, visualize connections between search terms and topics, and view relevant articles for those topics through the 'Topic Finder' resource.
Gale eBooks - browse by subject or search the full catalog.
Recommended Databases
Archives of Sexuality & GenderThis link opens in a new windowPrimary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world.
Features historical documents from newsletters, papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets focused on the gay rights movement, activism, and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th CenturyThis link opens in a new windowProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.
Black Studies in VideoThis link opens in a new windowBlack Studies in Video is an award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Black Thought and CultureThis link opens in a new windowBlack Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.
Political Extremism and RadicalismThis link opens in a new windowLiberal democracies of North America, Europe, and Australasia throughout the twentieth century have experienced a variety of forms of extremism and radicalism that have shaped mainstream political thinking as well as cultural norms. To comprehend modern governmental and societal systems researchers must understand the environment that created them, their origins, and their adversaries. In the Political Extremism and Radicalism series Gale provides insight on unorthodox (by contemporary standards), fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources.
PsycINFOThis link opens in a new windowCentered on psychology and the behavioral and social sciences with coverage from the 17th century to the present, charting the evolution of psychology over time through peer-reviewed journals, books, and dissertations.
Social Sciences Full TextThis link opens in a new windowCovers the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences and provides sources covering a wide array of subjects, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies and more.
Subjects Include: Addiction studies; Anthropology; Communications; Economics; Ethics; Family studies; Gender studies; International relations; Law; Mass media; Minority studies; Political science; Psychology; Public welfare; Social work; Urban studies.
SocINDEXThis link opens in a new windowSocINDEX offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Subjects Include: Criminology; Criminal justice; Demography; Ethnic and racial studies; Gender studies; Marriage and family; Political sociology; Religion; Rural and urban sociology; Social development; Social psychology; Social structure; Social work; Socio-cultural anthropology; Sociological history; Sociological research; Sociological theory; Substance abuse; Violence
Sociological AbstractsThis link opens in a new windowSociological Abstracts indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It includes the companion file Social Services Abstracts, which provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations as well as citations to book reviews.
