Database Spotlight: Sociological Abstracts

With its significant depth of coverage and indexing, the database Sociological Abstracts is great starting point for researchers interested in Sociology. The database can be accessed from the Albertsons Library's A-Z database list or directly from here.

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in Sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. 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. Cover is 1952-current with new records added monthly. Approximately 30,000 additional records are added each year.


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


For more information on this database please see the CSA Sociological Abstracts Factsheet located here.