Research Guides: Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology: Sociology

Online Journal Article Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

Resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in many areas of academic study through journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more.
JSTOR

Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics. Provides interdisciplinary, full-text, scholarly, peer-reviewed resources.
Project Muse

Journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage in art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, history, ethnic and cultural studies, music, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology and women's studies.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate)

Social science citation search with citation analysis tools.
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)

Subjects covered include sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Find scholarly and trade journals, articles, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

A Small Sampling of Peer-Reviewed Journals

Qualitative Sociology
The journal Qualitative Sociology is dedicated to the qualitative interpretation and analysis of social life. The journal offers both theoretical and analytical research, and publishes manuscripts based on research methods such as interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, content analysis and others which do not rely primarily on numerical data. All papers are reviewed.
Rural Sociology
Published on behalf of the Rural Sociological Society, Rural Sociology explores sociological and innovative interdisciplinary approaches to emerging and recurring social issues affecting rural people and places.
Sociology
Sociology, an official journal of the British Sociological Association, is acknowledged as one of the leading journals in its field. For more than five decades, the journal has made a major contribution to the debates that have shaped the discipline and has an undisputed international reputation for publishing original research of the highest academic standard. The scope of Sociology is wide ranging - both geographically and substantively - and it includes shorter notes, comments, reviews of recent developments and book reviews as well as core theoretical and empirical research papers.
Sociology of Health & Illness
Sociology of Health & Illness journal publishes sociological articles on all aspects of health, illness, medicine, and healthcare – particularly those that recognise the diverse nature of society and that address diversity when discussing sampling, recruitment, data analysis, and the implications of findings.