Sociology/Anthropology: A Guide to Finding Information
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Dictionaries help define terminology
GN11 .D48 Seymour-Smith, Charlotte, ed. Dictionary of Anthropology. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1986.
GN11 .W5 Winick, Charles. Dictionary of Anthropology. NY: Philosophical Library, 1956.
Ref HM17 .J37 Jary, David, and Julia Jary. The HarperCollins Dictionary of Sociology. NY: HarperPerennial, 1991.
Ref HM17 .C66 Marshall, Gordon, ed. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. NY: Oxford, 1994.
Encyclopedias provide overview and background information.
Ref GN307 .E527 Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan Spencer, eds. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. NY: Routledge, 1996.
Ref GN550 .E53 Levinson, David, ed. Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991.
H41 .E63 Seligman, E. R. A., ed. Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. NY: Macmillan, 1937.
Ref H41 .E63 Sills, David L. ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. NY: Macmillan, 1968.
Ref HM17 .B6813 Boudon, Raymond, and Francois Bourricand. A Critical Dictionary of Sociology. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989.
Folio HM17 .E5 Borgatta, Marie L., ed. Encyclopedia of Sociology. NY: Macmillan, 1991.
Ref HN57 .E58 Cayton, Mary Kupiec, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Social History. NY: Scribner, 1992.
Handbooks list resources and outline strategies for research
Ref GN42 .K53 Kibbee, Josephine Z. Cultural Anthropology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1991.
Ref GN42 .W44 Weeks, John M. Introduction to Library Research in Anthropology. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
HM68 .B37 Bart, Pauline, and Linda Frankel. The Student Sociologist's Handbook. NY: McGraw, 1986.
Z7164 .S68 A24 Aby, Stephen H. Sociology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1997.
Books
CONSORT, the online catalog, identifies books owned by Ohio Wesleyan. To find books use the general subject headings "Anthropology" or "Sociology." The alphabetical list includes all sub-divisions. To find related terms, select "Sociology ® see Related Subjects."
Bibliographies list books and other resources
Z7161 .I593 International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Chicago, IL: Aldine, 1960-1978.
Z7161 .I594 International Bibliography of Sociology. Chicago, IL: Aldine, 1960-1979.
Annuals record trends and developments in a discipline
HM1 .A763 Annual Review of Sociology. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 1975-1978,1982,1985, 1997- .
Periodical Indexes & Abstracts
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
Sociological Abstracts indexes professional and scholarly journals on an international basis. A print copy of the Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms (Ref Z695.1 .S63 B66) is available to find the correct subject headings. The Contemporary Thesaurus of Social Science Terms and Synonyms (Ref Z699.5 .S65 K57) is useful for natural language computer searching.
SocIndex provides full text of journal articles, and indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, plus "priority" coverage journals and "selective" coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.
Citation Indexes
Social Sciences Citation Index indicates sources in which a known work by a given author has been cited.
Audiovisual Resources
The Audio Visual Center on the lower level of Beeghly has several films of interest to those studying anthropology or sociology.
Internet Resources
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