Sociological Abstracts (Rutgers University Libraries)

Description

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Major areas of coverage include:

Culture and social structure
Demography and human biology
Economic development
Environmental interactions
Evaluation research
Family and social welfare
Health and medicine and law
History and theory of sociology
Management and complex organizations
Mass phenomena and political interactions
Methodology and research technology
Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
Radical sociology
Religion and science
Rural and urban sociology
Social development
Social differentiation
Social psychology and group interaction
Sociology of the arts, business, education
Studies in violence and power
Substance abuse and addiction
Welfare services
Women's studies

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Dates covered

1952 - Current.

Updating frequency

Monthly, with approximately 30,000 records added per year.

Sources

The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records published by Sociological Abstracts in print during the database's first 11 years, 1952-1962, have been added to the database as of November 2005, extending the depth of the backfile of this authoritative resource. The database contains over 795,518 records as of June 2007.

A list of current journal list is available from http://www.csa.com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/factsheets/supplements/sociossl.php.

Type of coverage

Many records from key journals in sociology, added to the database since 2002, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles. These references are linked both within Sociological Abstracts and across other social science databases available on CSA Illumina.

Print Counterpart or related resources

Sociological Abstracts, ISSN 0038-0202.

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CSA

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