LibGuides: SOC 243: Race &amp; Ethnic Relations (Whitlinger): Articles

Identify Peer Reviewed or Refereed Journals

UlrichsWeb
Provides detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types, including scholarly/trade/popular, peer-review status, and indexing.

Sociology Journals

American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Annual Review of Sociology
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Contemporary Sociology
Current Sociology
Demography
Du Bois Review
Ethnicities
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Mobilization
Qualitative Sociology
Race & Class
Social Currents
Social Forces
Social Problems
Sociological Forum
Sociological Quarterly
Sociological Theory
Sociology of Education
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Symbolic Interaction
Work and Occupations
Youth and Society

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CHARACTERISTICS OF PEER REVIEWED OR REFEREED ARTICLES

Peer reviewed or refereed articles

Written in plain format with specialized language by researchers or experts who wish to report on original research or experimentation for professionals
Go through the peer review process
Easily identifiable using database filters, icons, and UlrichsWeb
Include a bibliography and footnotes for other scholars to review and consider for future publications

Databases

Civil Rights and Social Justice
E-Duke Journals
The e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections provide online access to 38 Duke University Press journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a collection of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. This resource includes unique community publications not found in any other database, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies.
Ethnic NewsWatch comprehensively covers these ethnic categories:
- African American/Caribbean/African
- Arab/Middle Eastern
- Asian/Pacific Islander
- European/Eastern European
- Hispanic
- Jewish
- Native People
Of the more than 2.5 million articles contained in the collection, nearly a quarter are presented in Spanish; dozens of major Latino publications are featured.
Gender Studies Database
Combines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a scholarly journal archive which provides full image access to articles from over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and unrelated titles. JSTOR goes back to the very first issue of each journal (many of them in the 19th Century), but does not include the most recent five years.
19th Century to Five Years Ago
Oxford African American Studies Center
A comprehensive collection of scholarship focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes 7,500 articles. The core content includes Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.
Also includes content from the new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, and the African American National Biography.
Social Sciences Full Text
This source indexes a wide variety of sources related to the social sciences including sociology, family studies, public administration, social work, etc.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes literature in the field of sociology, as well as related literature in the social and behavioral sciences. The database includes abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers, as well as citations to book reviews.
Web of Science
Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covering more than 15,000 journals is available through this search of Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers 1900 - Present.

Data

ICPSR Direct
Data sets from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Most data for retrospective data sets is also available via CD-ROM.
PAIS International
Covers issues in public policy from 1915 to present. Sources include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material and more. Provides a broad perspective on social and public policies, from historical (Prohibition, civil rights, McCarthyism) to current (health policy, climate change, terrorism)
OECD iLibrary
Social Explorer
Social Explorer provides access to current and historical census data and demographic information and lets users create maps and reports to illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change. Among other documents Social Explorer includes the entire US Census from 1790 to 2010, annual updates from the American Community Survey, the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) from 1980 to 2010 and Carbon Emissions Data for 2002 from the Vulcan Project.
Statista
Statista is a data aggregation and research platform covering worldwide markets, industries, and societal topics. This resource offers over 1.5 million world-wide statistics along with forecasting on 500 areas from 41 countries for a period of 5 years. Working from more than 20,000 public and private reports, the information is prepared and vetted by a research team of more than 100 analysts in Hamburg, Germany.