Sociology: Get Articles

Start looking for sociology articles in Sociological Abstracts 

Look for book chapters in Web of Science (Social Sciences CItation Index) and Scopus.

Project MUSE and JSTOR can be useful for sociology, and PubMed for medical sociology.

Other places to look include

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) 
• ProQuest Social Sciences
• Social Theory 

   

  Full text books and articles on the nature of social behavior and organization, by theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Talcott Parsons, Mary Wollstonecraft and many others.

Or, see our full list of databases for sociology.

Pro tip! When you find a good article, click "Get it at UC" to get the online PDF. If Berkeley doesn't have that journal, use "interlibrary loan" to request that we borrow it from another library.

Also! If you find a great article, find its references in our Citation Linker... or search for the title in Google Scholar  and click "cited by" to see newer articles that build on the one you found!

Annual Review of Sociology summarizes the current literature on a topic like theories of the causes of poverty, or social networks and health. Start here before your literature review to learn which articles to cite.

Other most-cited journals in sociology are:

American Sociological Review

American Journal of Sociology

Sociological Methods & Research

Another place to look is the American Sociological Association's publication Contexts, which is "the public face of sociology".  There are some good introductions here to themes and topics that are current and in the news.

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