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Subject Guide SOC 210 Introduction to Sociology

Find Books
iLink is the RCC Online Catalog of all the materials available in the RCC Library. Also included are the holdings of 46 other community college libraries that make up the Community Colleges Libraries in North Carolina consortium (CCLINC).  You can search the catalog by author, keyword, title, periodical title, series, or subject. 

1. You can borrow materials belonging to other libraries via Place a Hold (requires your student ID or library card barcode number).
2. You can renew books, check due dates, and review fines by clicking on My Account (requires your student ID or library card barcode number).
3. You can search the Reserve Desk to locate materials by Instructor, Course Number or Course Name.  Reserve materials are located at the library Circulation Desk.
4. The library maintains many more resources than those recommended below, so it is important to browse the shelves around the call number to locate other relevant resources.

Selected Books and Audiovisuals

Aged by culture   (305.26 Gul)

Cambridge dictionary of sociology (Ref 301.03 Cam)

Classical sociological theory   (301.09 Ada)

Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed   (304.28 Dia)

Encyclopedia of American social history   (Ref 301.097 Enc)

Encyclopedia of social theory   (Ref 301.03 Enc)

Encyclopedia of sociology   (Ref 301.03 Enc)

He said, she said [videorecording] : gender, language, & communication   (302.2 VT-2540)

Science, technology, and society: an encyclopedia   (Ref 306.45 Sci)

Secret of the wild child [videorecording]   (305.231 VT-1356)

Survey of Social Science: Sociology Series   (Ref 301.03 Sur)

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Find Ebooks

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (available through NC Live)
Provides respected authoritative essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas, all in E-Book reference title format. Coverage: 1999 - 2005.

NetLibrary (available through NC Live)
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 24,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books. Includes fiction and non-fiction titles.

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Find Articles

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NC Live (selected databases)

Academic Search Premier – Magazines and journals on many subjects including peer-reviewed and scholarly works

Britannica Online Academic Edition – Over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, news headlines, a guide to the Web's best sites, and much more

CQ Researcher Online – Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy

MasterFile Premier – Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present

ProQuest Newspapers – Contains many full text articles from Christian Science Monitor; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Wall Street Journal; and The Washington Post

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - provides a one-stop source of information on social issues; includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites and full-text magazine/newspaper articles.

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Find Websites

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Librarians’ Internet Index 
Internet resources selected, evaluated, and organized by professional librarians. Searchable and browsable.

SocioSite-Sociological Subjects 
From the University of Amsterdam comes one of the best index of sociological sites. Organized by subject matter.

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Evaluating Websites, Online Citation & Writing Tools

Citation Styles Online (using MLA, APA, Chicago, & CBE to cite online information) 

Evaluating Websites: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly; or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources  

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary  

Samples of APA Style (RCC approved)  

Samples of MLA Style (RCC approved)  

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