Subject Guide: Sociology

Concise summary of the field of sociology.

Provides key data on social concerns about abortion.

Social and moral issues surrounding AIDS and HIV.

Focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs.

History of American attitudes over the past 30 years.

Compares and contrasts both generations and age groups in the U.S.

Baby boom generation.

Compiles pertinent current, historical, and social data on child abuse and domestic violence.

Focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding crime, prisons, and jails.

Social and moral issues surrounding death and dying.

Discusses how the U.S. has been affected by the rapid development and adoption of new electronic devices, programs, and other technologies.

Social and moral issues surrounding gambling in America.

Generation X

Scholary study of popular culture in the U.S.

Social and moral issues surrounding growing old in America.

Social and moral issues surrounding growing up in America.

Social and moral issues surrounding gun control in America.

Examines health and wellness among Americans and describes the most common types of chronic, degenerative, genetic, and infectious diseases, as well as the concepts of mental health and illness.

Current key data on the health care system in the U.S.

Guide to the legend and lore Behind the traditions, rituals, foods, games, animals, and other symbols and activities associated with holidays and holy days.

Focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding immigration and illegal aliens.

Profiles of the demography and socio-economic characteristics of aging populations.

Contains editorials, charts, photos, and graphics, and historical documents on social issues.

Generation Y.

Social and moral issues surrounding minorities in America.

Contains a convenient selection of information from the Census Bureau’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) tabulation.

Comments on central issues, complications, and controversies in social science methodology.

Using the APA format.

Social and moral issues surrounding poverty and homelessness in America.

Guide to major sources of sociological information.

Looks at theology in terms of liberalism, positivism, dialectics, and difference.

A compilation of current and historical statistics with analysis on the topics of obesity and eating disorders, including a comprehensive summary of up-to-date research on the topics.

Examines the forms that poverty takes around the world, its many causes, the serious negative consequences that it has for individuals and societies, and the effort to eliminate it.

Thorough guide for writing literature reviews for the social and behavioral sciences.

Examines the complex causes of poverty and offers concrete, practical proposals for social and individual change.

Informed confrontation on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to date to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, with constructive suggestions on how to move forward.

Shows how the life of the church, the strategies of community development, and the practices of peacemaking can make a transformational difference.

A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S.