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Sociological Abstracts
From the Randall Library Homepage [http://library.uncwil.edu],
click on "Databases".
Databases are listed alphabetically. Select "S" and then choose Sociological Abstracts
from the list.
There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link terms together; limit the search to a specific title; and /or restrict the search to a particular date range.
Note: Stopwords are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns, and prepositions. These words are not indexed for searching in the database. For example, 'the', 'for', and 'of' are stopwords. When a stopword is used in a query, any single word or no word is retrieved in place of the stopword.
This is an example of a record from Sociological Abstracts.
To find out if Randall Library owns the periodical cited, click on the Links to Holdings link at the bottom of each citation. A catalog record for the periodical displays if Randall Library owns it. Periodicals are located on the ground floor of Randall Library. The check for holdings works by matching the journal's International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) in our Library Catalog, may wish to double check journal titles in the catalog with a journal title search just in case the ISSN is not correct.
NOTE: If the item is not an article, you will have to search the Library Catalog using a "Title" search.
I want to search only journal articles.
To narrow your search to journal articles only, select the advance search tab and check the box next to Journal Articles.
The following classification codes and subject headings categorize each document into broad areas of sociology and related disciplines. There are two classification schemes used in Sociological Abstracts: sa and SOPODA. Because the two schemes overlap in coverage, you may want to search for categories from both schemes for comprehensive results.
Each record in the database contains one or more four-digit classification codes that describe the major focus of the document. You can search for a specific code, such as 2079 (substance use/abuse and compulsive behaviors), or search for the broad code 2000 (sociology of health and medicine) to retrieve all records classified with any of the more specific codes. The corresponding text for the codes appears in the Subject Heading (SH) field.
Search for the codes in the Classification Code (CC) field, and for the headings in the Subject Heading (SH) field. You can search for any word or phrase of a subject heading.
Last Update: February 8, 2006
| Searching Sociological Abstracts |
There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link terms together; limit the search to a specific title; and /or restrict the search to a particular date range.
Note: Stopwords are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns, and prepositions. These words are not indexed for searching in the database. For example, 'the', 'for', and 'of' are stopwords. When a stopword is used in a query, any single word or no word is retrieved in place of the stopword.
Boolean Operators
Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly
specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your search, you can use
AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words together. These operators
will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are
looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly.
| Operator | Search | Result |
| AND | juvenile and crime | Retrieves
records that contain both "juvenile" and "crime." Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation or abstract. |
| OR | juvenile or crime | Retrieves records that contain either "juvenile," "crime," or both. |
| WITH | juvenile with crime | Retrieves records that contain both "juvenile" and "crime" in the same field. |
| NEAR | juvenile near crime | Retrieves records that contain both "juvenile" and "crime" in the same sentence. |
| NOT | crime not delinquency | Retrieves
records that contain "crime" but not "delinquency." Note: Add a number next to near to specify how close the terms are to appear to each other. For example "elder near2 abuse" retrieves records in which the words "elder" and "abuse" appear within two words of each other. |
| IN | juvenile in ti | Retrieves records that contain "juvenile" in the TI (Title) field. |
Complex Searches - Using Parenthesis
Search statements are complex when you use more than one operator in a statement,
especially "AND" (or one of its variants) and "OR." For
example if you where searching for item that the abuse of the elderly or
children your seach would look like this:
abuse and (elderly or children)
Placing parentheses around "elderly or children" nests those two words, so that
the system knows the order in which to search. To put it simply, the numbers of records
comes out right when you use parentheses.
Finding Word Variants
You can use the truncation symbol (*) as a substitute for any string of
zero or more characters in your search term. For example, the search elect*
retrieves any record containing "election," "electoral,"
"elects," "electorate," etc.
You can use the wildcard symbol (?) as a substitute for one character
or none. For example, the search m?cdonald retrieves records containing
"McDonald" or "MacDonald."
The truncation and wildcard symbols can be used anywhere in your search term, except
as the first character.
This is an example of a record from Sociological Abstracts.
| Risky Spaces and Dangerous Faces: Urban Surveillance, Social Disorder and CCTV Hier, Sean P , Social & Legal Studies, 2004, 13, 4, Dec, 541-554 Since the early 1990s, there has been a steady increase in the use of closed circuit television cameras to monitor public space(s) across Europe & North America. The existing theoretical literature has tended to explain the resort to CCTV in the ... View Record | Links to Holdings | Send request to UNCW ILLiad |
How to know what type of document your citation is for:
The following are valid field contents for the DT field:
| Field Code | Field Content | Explanation of Field |
| aja | Abstract-of-Journal-Article | A citation to a summary of a periodical article. |
| asp | Association Paper | A citation to a paper read at a professional association. |
| bca | Book-Chapter-Abstract | A citation to a chapter out of a book |
| bka | Book-Abstract | A citation to a book. |
| brv | Book-Review | A citation to a review of a book. |
| dis | Dissertation | A citation to a doctoral dissertation. |
| frv | Film-Review | A citation to a review of a film. |
| swr | Software Review | A citation to a review of a software program |
To find out if Randall Library owns the periodical cited, click on the Links to Holdings link at the bottom of each citation. A catalog record for the periodical displays if Randall Library owns it. Periodicals are located on the ground floor of Randall Library. The check for holdings works by matching the journal's International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) in our Library Catalog, may wish to double check journal titles in the catalog with a journal title search just in case the ISSN is not correct.
NOTE: If the item is not an article, you will have to search the Library Catalog using a "Title" search.
I want to search only journal articles.
To narrow your search to journal articles only, select the advance search tab and check the box next to Journal Articles.
I want to find information about the feminist perspective on birth control.
- Search for the code for "feminist studies" in the Classification Code, which is (CL) field: cl=2959
- Combine the results with a search for "birth control": and birth control
Search should be typed as: cl=2959 and birth control
The following classification codes and subject headings categorize each document into broad areas of sociology and related disciplines. There are two classification schemes used in Sociological Abstracts: sa and SOPODA. Because the two schemes overlap in coverage, you may want to search for categories from both schemes for comprehensive results.
Each record in the database contains one or more four-digit classification codes that describe the major focus of the document. You can search for a specific code, such as 2079 (substance use/abuse and compulsive behaviors), or search for the broad code 2000 (sociology of health and medicine) to retrieve all records classified with any of the more specific codes. The corresponding text for the codes appears in the Subject Heading (SH) field.
Search for the codes in the Classification Code (CC) field, and for the headings in the Subject Heading (SH) field. You can search for any word or phrase of a subject heading.
| sa Classification
Codes 0100 methodology and research technology 0101 of general interest 0103 methodology (conceptual & epistemological) 0104 research methods/tools 0105 statistical methods 0161 models: mathematical & other 0188 computer methods, media, & applications 0200 sociology: history and theory 0202 of professional interest (teaching sociology) 0206 history & present state of sociology 0207 theories, ideas, & systems 0233 sociology of knowledge 0267 macrosociology: analysis of whole societies 0285 comparative & historical sociology 0300 social psychology 0309 interaction within (small) groups (group processes, space use, leadership, coalitions, & teamwork) 0312 personality & social roles (individual traits, social identity, adjustment, conformism, & deviance) 0322 leadership 0364 deviance 0373 cognitive/interpretive sociologies, symbolic interactionism, & ethnomethodology 0394 life cycle & biography 0400 group interactions 0410 social group identity & intergroup relations (groups based on race & ethnicity, age, & sexual orientation) 0491 refugees 0500 culture and social structure 0508 social organizations 0513 culture (kinship, forms of social organization, social cohesion & integration, & social representations) 0514 social anthropology 0600 complex organization 0621 jobs, work organization, workplaces, & unions 0623 military sociology 0624 bureaucratic structure/organizational sociology 0665 social network analysis 0671 sociology of business & entrepreneurism 0674 voluntary associations/philanthropy 0686 modes of production, employment patterns, social division of labor 0700 social change and economic development 0715 social change & economic development 0749 market structures & consumer behavior 0770 capitalism/socialism-world systems 0800 mass phenomena 0826 social movements 0827 public opinion 0828 communication 0829 collective behavior 0842 sociology of leisure/tourism 0850 popular culture 0868 transportation systems & behaviors 0869 sociology of sports 0900 political sociology/interactions 0911 interactions between societies, nations, & states 0925 sociology of political systems, politics, & power 0989 welfare state 0995 nationalism 1000 social differentiation 1019 social stratification/mobility 1020 sociology of occupations & professions 1022 generations/intergenerational relations 1100 rural sociology and agriculture 1116 rural sociology (village, agriculture) 1117 sociology of communities & regions 1200 urban sociology 1218 urban sociology 1300 sociology of language and the arts 1330 sociology of language/sociolinguistics 1331 sociology of art (creative & performing) 1375 sociology of literature 1400 sociology of education 1432 sociology of education 1500 sociology of religion 1535 sociology of religion 1600 social control 1636 sociology of law 1653 police, penology, & correctional problems 1700 sociology of science 1734 sociology of science 1772 sociology of technology 1800 demography and human biology 1837 demography (population studies) 1844 human biology/sociobiology 1864 genetic engineering/reproductive biotechnology 1900 the family and socialization 1938 sociology of the child 1939 adolescence & youth 1940 sociology of sexual behavior 1941 sociology of the family, marriage, & divorce 1976 socialization 1977 birth control (abortion, contraception, fertility, & childbearing) 1978 sociology of death & dying 2000 sociology of health and medicine 2045 sociology of medicine & health care 2046 social psychiatry (mental health) 2079 substance use/abuse & compulsive behaviors (drug abuse, addiction, alcoholism, gambling, eating disorders, etc.) |
2100 social problems and
social welfare 2143 social gerontology 2147 sociology of crime 2148 social work & welfare services 2151 juvenile delinquency 2187 social service programs/delivery systems 2190 victimology (rape, family violence, & child abuse) 2192 sociological practice (clinical & applied) 2200 sociology of knowledge 2233 sociology of knowledge 2252 history of ideas 2300 community/regional development 2317 sociology of communities & regions 2400 policy, planning, forecasting 2454 planning & forecasting 2460 social indicators 2462 policy sciences 2496 negotiation, dispute settlements 2499 sociology of ethics & ethical decision making 2500 radical sociology 2555 Marxist & radical sociologies 2580 critical sociology 2600 environmental interactions 2656 environmental interactions 2681 disaster studies 2682 social geography 2697 famine, hunger, & malnutrition 2700 studies in poverty 2757 studies in poverty 2793 homelessness 2800 studies in violence 2858 studies in violence 2884 terrorism 2898 genocide 2900 feminist/gender studies 2959 feminist studies 2983 sociology of gender & gender relations 3000 marxist sociology 3063 marxist sociology 3100 clinical sociology 3166 clinical sociology 3200 sociology of business 3268 sociology of business 3300 visual sociology 3371 visual sociology SOPODA Classification
Codes |
Last Update: February 8, 2006