Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

• Encyclopedia of Education
  REF LB.15.E47
• Encyclopedia of Sociology
  REF HM.425.E5
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
  REF H.41.I58

Books

Use PacifiCat to search for keywords using terms such as “media and (class or race)” or “consumerism and gender” or “education and social class."

Periodical Articles

The library has periodical articles in print and online. Others you can request through InterLibrary Loan. We have both popular and scholarly periodicals. Here are some ways to tell the difference:

Popular	Scholarly
Contemporary, popular topics	Literature reviews, original research
Written by staff writers	Written by scholars and experts
Selected by the editor	Accepted by a panel of experts
Few or no footnotes, bibliographies	Footnotes, bibliographies

Databases

The following databases should be useful for this course:

• Academic Search Complete: abstracts and full-text of popular and scholarly articles
• Business Source Complete: similar to the above with a focus on business and economics
• EconLit: index and abstracts in economics, link to full-text
• Education Research Complete: popular and scholarly articles about topics in educational practice.
• ERIC: this is the primary index to the literature of education.
• JSTOR: backfiles of the full-text of hundreds of scholarly journals. No current content!
• PsycInfo: index and links to articles about psychology, including learning theory
• Sociological Abstracts: index and links to sociological materials

Reliable Websites:

• Explorations in Social Inequality: Content and additional links about various aspects, such as gender, ethnicity, race, and poverty
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Full-text of reports and statistical data on topics such as poverty, social services, welfare and work
• U.S. Bureau of the Census Report on Poverty: Reports and data on income and social inequality
• Russell Sage Foundation Social Inequality Working Papers: Scholarly papers that address a variety of topics within the broader topic of inquality
• Social Inequality and Class: List of sociological resources on stratification, class, income, and society