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SOC 117: CALIFORNIA
YOUTH IN TRANSITION
Library guide
This guide is meant to assist you in conducting research for your final papers. Resources are listed below to help with either approach you may take in the assignment, i.e. demographic or ethnographic.
Note: Your are invited at any time to consult with a librarian at the Reference Desk in McHenry Library, if you can't find what you are looking for.
| Step 1: Take a few minutes to read about your topic in a sociology encyclopedia; this is an effective and time saving first step in the research process. Encyclopedias can help you define unfamiliar terms, understand the parameters of current debate in a particular area of research, and provide you with preliminary bibliography on the subject. The following are located on the Reference shelves behind the McHenry Reference Desk: |
International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, vols. 1-26 (Ref H41 I58
2001)
(E.g. criminal justice, ethics of; criminal justice, sociology of; crime:
sociological aspects; crime and ethnicity; crime and gender; crime and class)
International
Encyclopedia of Sociology, vols. 1&2 (Ref HM17 I54 1995)
Search the index for the following headings relevant to the broad topics suggested
in the class syllabus i.e. nationalism, environmental sociology, sociology of
education, media and sexuality, interpersonal communication, drugs and society.
These are suggested headings; there are many more in the index.
Encyclopedia
of Sociology, vols. 1-5 (Ref HM 17 E5 2000)
`Search the index for the following headings relevant to the broad topics suggested
in the class syllabus i.e. nationalism, environmental sociology, sociology of
education, media and sexuality, interpersonal communication, drugs and society.
These are suggested headings; there are many more in the index.
Dictionaries
of Sociology
There are several good dictionaries located on the reference shelves at Ref
HM 17...if you don't understand a term, look it up.
| Step 2: Locate books and scholarly journal articles on your topic. |
Books:
Articles
in scholarly journals:
(Use the Library's 
Off-Campus Access service to access our databases and journals from home.)
Use the library's How to...Find Journal Articles (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/)
Remember there is a difference between an article published in a scholarly journal and one published in a popular magazine. Use the library's How to...Distinguish Between Scholarly and Popular Periodicals (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/popularscholarly.html) to determine the difference.
Databases most useful for this assignment:
The following indexing and abstracting online services can be accessed through the Library's Research website (http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html). Type the name of the database in the search window. There are many other subject specific databases to search, see a reference librarian for assistance.
Expanded Academic ASAP: (Articles in magazines and journals; Articles from both scholarly journals and popular magazines.) Good place to start for the current debate on topics. Remember to check "Cruzcat" for the titles of journals that are not available in full-text in this database.
Sociological Abstracts: (Citations for articles from over 2,600 journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations in sociology and related disciplines.) Check "Cruzcat" to see if we own the title of the journal you need.
LexisNexis Academic: (Full text and abstracts of news, business, and legal information from nearly 6,000 newspapers and journal titles.)
| Step 3: Statistics for the demographic paper. Use the library's How to...Find Statistics(http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/) |
Also
see:
Government Publications homepage (http://library.ucsc.edu/gov/index.html)
(Under "California," then "California government agencies,"
then search by topic. Also "U.S. Census data," American Factfinder,
limit to California.)
Rand California
(http://ca.rand.org/cgi-bin/homepage.cgi)
(Online source for California
and U.S. statistics) Go to "Research" from the library's homepage,
then type Rand in the search window.
U.S. & California state government publications (selected list):
Most items available electronically through Cruzcat (follow linked call number).
A very few selected Web sites:
Children's defense, "Data": http://www.childrensdefense.org
PreventViolence.org": http://www.preventviolence.org
Alan Guttmacher Institute,: http://www.guttmacher.org/
Children Now, "Adolescents" http://www.childrennow.org/
| Citation Style: Use the "APA Style Citations and References" guide. (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/instruction/refguides/apa.html) |
Page Created by: Cheryl Gomez, Sociology Librarian, cherylg@ucsc.edu
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