Research Guides: SOCI 004B: Introduction to Social Theory (SC): Finding Journal Articles

Find Journal Artices in Sociology Databases

Sociology databases let you search through articles published in many different academic sociology journals.

Sociological Abstracts
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Sociological Abstracts is an essential database to search when doing sociology research. Also try ProQuest Sociology (link is below), which is a larger database that only partially overlaps with Sociological Abstracts.
Project Muse journals
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This database contains articles from various disciplines (including Sociology and Philosophy) and may be useful for students in the Contemporary Social Thought course.
Web of Science
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Find multidisciplinary scholarly articles (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Citation searching also allows search for highly cited articles and books.
JSTOR
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Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Google Scholar
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Use Google Scholar to find scholarly journal articles and books, and to trace citations of particular works.