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How to Use This Guide

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This guide is designed to help you start your Sociology research.  Use the tabs to navigate this guide, and be sure to scroll down to see the content on each page.

  1. Jump right in to finding scholarly articles.
  2. Browse through various search strategies that will help you target your topic in the databases.
  3. Looking for a primary source?  We have special resources for those.
  4. Get help defining terms or the most important writings on a topic with Encyclopedias and Dictionaries.
  5. See a short list of places to search for government information.
  6. Find data sets and polling information and places to look for more.
  7. Check out our tips for writing and citing.

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Current Course Guides

Course guides for Academic Year 2024-2025 

These guides have curated and specialized resources to help students in these courses complete their specific assignments 

  • Fall 2024

SOCI 60: Practice of Social Research

SOCI 104Q: Qualitative Interviewing

SOCI 196: Honors Undergraduate Research

 

  • Spring 2025

SOCI 106: Comparative and Historical Methods