SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK  Tags: sociology social_work  

Dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks provide general background information and identify terms with which you are unfamiliar. They are often a good place to begin research.

Print resources available in the Reference Area on first floor of the Library:

• 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook REF HM585 .A13
• America in the Twentieth Century REF HN59.2 .B43
• Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families REF HQ519 .B53
• Child Poverty in America Today REF HV741 .C4875
• Class in America: An Encyclopedia REF HN90.S6 C564 
• Dictionary of American Criminal Justice REF HV7411 .C53x
• Dictionary of Sociology REF HM425 .D5735
• Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia REF LC189.95 .E38
• Encyclopedia of Aging REF HQ1061 .E53
• Encyclopedia of Bioethics REF QH332 .E52
• Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence REF HV6626 .E534
• Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice REF HV9104 .E58
• Encyclopedia of Juvenile Violence REF HV9104 .E59
• Encyclopedia of Rural America REF E169.12 .E5
• Encyclopedia of Social Work REF HV35 .S6
• Encyclopedia of Sociology REF HM425 .E5
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America REF E184.A1 .G14
• Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia REF HQ75.13 .G37
• Historical Atlas of American Crime REF HV6779 .R67
• Homelessness Handbook REF HV4493 .H68
• International Encyclopedia of Adolescence REF HQ796 .I58
• International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family REF HQ9 .E52
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences REF H41 .I58
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences REF H40.A2 I5
• Internet Predators REF HV6773 .H45
• Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia REF HQ75.5 .L4395
• Prisons REF HV 9471 .F465
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences REF H62 .R454
• Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods REF H62 .L456
• Sage Handbook of Social Research Methods REF H62 .S2758
• Social Issues in America: an Encyclopedia REF HN57 .S624
• Social Science Encyclopedia REF H41 .S63
• Social Work Dictionary REF HV12 .B37
• Urban Sprawl REF HT384.U5 U75
• Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook REF HV9471 .B365

Directories

• Complete Directory for People With Disabilities REF HV1853 .C65
• Encyclopedia of Associations REF HS17 .G332
• Gayellow Pages REF HQ75 .G39
• National Directory of Children, Youth and Families Services REF HV741 .N3157