LibGuides: SOCI 380 Race and Ethnicity: Find Articles

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Key Sociology Databases

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.

The databases listed below are the key Sociology-related databases. When accessing databases from off-campus you will be prompted to enter your GFU log in.

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SocINDEX is the authoritative bibliographic database for sociology research. Indexing covers leading social work journals.

Sample Article Searches

Below are some sample searches using the library's journal databases.

Native Americans and Land
Search Strategy: Academic Search Premier, America History and Life, Political Science Complete, SocIndex with Full Text. Used terms: Native Americans (su) AND land tenure
Filtered by academic journals. Search resulted in 182 articles.
Race and Sports
Search Strategy: Academic Search Premier, SocIndex with Full Text, & SportDiscus with Full Text. Terms used were race discrimination AND sports OR athletics.
Race and Mass Media
Search Strategy: Academic Search Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, & SocIndex with Full Text. Used the terms race AND mass media. Filtered the results by date (2008-2014), and publication type (scholarly/peer reviewed) and Academic journals. The result was 380 articles.

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