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Sociology

Recommended Databases for Sociology

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
A social issues database with full-text periodical articles, viewpoint essays, reference material, statistics, topic overviews and websites, organized under popular research topic headings.
Contexts (e-journal) This link opens in a new window
A quarterly journal offering a thought-provoking take on modern life in our communities. (American Sociological Association; 2002-present)
LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage for the most important literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer topics and history. Offers scholarly, popular and regional resources, in journals, books, magazines, primary sources, and more.

Sociology Topics

Read Books & eBooks

Fashioning Fat : Inside Plus-size Modeling

The Violence of Hate

The SAGE handbook of the sociology of work and employment

The War of the Sexes

The Sociology of Development Handbook

Rich and Poor in America

Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits

Children and Consumer Culture in American Society

Gender and Work : Exploring Intersectionality, Resistance, and Identity

American Multiculturalism in Context : Views From at Home and Abroad

New Perspectives on Resilience in Socio-Economic Spheres

Watch Streaming Films

Cover for Finding Your Roots

Cover for PBS American Portrait

cover for Our Towns

Cover for Growing Up Poor in America

Cover for Poverty, Politics and Profit

Cover for Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric

Cover for Up: The Classic Documentary Series

Cover for The House We Live In: Race—The Power of an Illusion

MiraCosta Sociology Program

Internet Resources