GALILEO@UGA Subject Guides: Sociology: GALILEO Databases

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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts to articles in sociology.
SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 2,066,400 records with subject headings from a 19,750+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 777 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 820 books and monographs, and full text for 13,947 conference papers.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts to articles in sociology.
Sociological Abstracts is a primary resource for accessing research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. International in scope, over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations are covered. Records added after 1974 contain nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Included in the database is the searchable Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.
Social Science Citation Index (at Web of Knowledge) This link opens in a new window
Major index to articles in the social sciences.
Social Sciences Citation Index is a subset of Web of Science within Web of Knowledge. Web of Science also includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Book Citation Index, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index. These databases may be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once.

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Social Sciences: Reference

Use these to get a sociological/social science overview of your topic.

Encyclopedia of Social Problems
Provides a multidisciplinary view of social problems and discusses social theories and their applications to these problems.
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Introduces “key ideas, concepts, schools, and figures in social theory” from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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