ULibraries Research Guides: LEAP: Issues of Life & Death + War & Peace: Sociology

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Objectives

1. Students will learn about boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and how they make life a bit easier

2. Students will learn about the disciplines and research topics in the Social Sciences, and how their methods share attributes and differ from other disciplines

3. Students will learn about annotated bibliographies and how to make their own entries based on scholarly articles in the social sciences

4. Review of APA citation style, how to read a citation, and differences between scholarly and "not scholarly"/popular

Introduction

I am a migrant: Gonzalo. (n.d.). Retrieved October 17, 2019, from I Am a Migrant website: https://iamamigrant.org/stories/nicaragua/gonzalo-1

LIBRARY DATABASES

Sociological Abstracts (Sociologists and their work -search by population, geographic location, social problem -try your own keywords at random, too!)

PsycINFO (psychology -how people think (or not :-| )

Social Science Premium Collection (there's tons (and tons) of dissertations here -check the "scholarly journal" facet when searching)

and don't forget to always try:
The Library Catalog (USearch)

TOPICS FOR CLASS TO TRY

BIG THEMES
energy
tourism
food
housing
income OR employment
recreation OR leisure
"mental health"
crime
climate

SPECIFIC FOCUS
sustainability OR justice OR equity OR inclusion OR diversity OR security OR insecurity

policy from the U.S. and other countries

Note: there's no unifying consensus among sociology scholars on 'community' but I really liked the structure of this one.

community can be defined as a group of people
...Who have a sense of common purpose(s) and/or interest(s) for which they assume mutual responsibility,
...Who acknowledge their interconnectedness,
...Who respect the individual differences among members,
...Who commit themselves to the well-being of each other and the integrity and well-being of the group.

Wood, G. S., Jr., & Judikis, J. C. (2002). Conversations on community theory.
West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press (page 12).

topics to try

Try variations of advanced keyword searches like this one:

hunger OR nutrition OR "food desert"

AND

children OR adolescents OR teenagers OR k-12 OR students