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Social Science Research Guide: Sociology

Guide to help students research in Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.

Sociology Resources

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News Sources

CQ Researcher

Weekly reports on issues in the news.

Ethnic NewsWatch

An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Infotrac Newsstand

Articles from newspapers from around the world.

The New York Times 1851-2017 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Historical articles published in The New York York Times.

Nexis Uni

Access to newspapers from around the world. Also contains legal and business information.

The New York Times (via nytimes.com — register using your LaGuardia email address)

  1. Click on “Register” to create a NYTimes.com account using your school email address.
  2. If your email address is from an eligible school, you will then see “Check your email.” Click on the link in our confirmation.
  3. If you don’t get the confirmation email, check your spam filter. If you still do not receive it, send an email from your school email account to edu@nytimes.com.

Magazine or Scholarly Articles

SocINDEX with Full Text

Sociology research database.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

Covers free, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Black Thought and Culture

Covers the non-fiction work of leading African Americans, from Colonial times to the present.

JSTOR

Scholarly journal articles in area studies, art, business & economics, history, humanities, law, medicine & allied health, science & mathematics, and social sciences.

LGBTQ+ Source

Collection of LGBT monographs, journals, magazines and regional newspapers.

Opposing Viewpoints

Source for information on today’s most controversial and talked about social issues; features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, websites, and magazine & newspaper articles.

Social Explorer

Demographic data, maps, and profile reports of the United States.

Social Sciences Full Text/Retrospective

Covers concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

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