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Subject Sociological Abstracts provides access to the latest worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, the database also contains major and minor descriptors. Entries cover sociological aspects of twenty-nine broad topics, including anthropology, business, collective behavior, community development, disaster studies, education, environmental studies, gender studies, gerontology, law and penology, marriage and family studies, medicine and health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, sociological theory, stratification, substance abuse, urban studies, and violence.
Sources Sociological Abstracts features journal citations and abstracts from over 2000 journals; book, chapter, and association paper abstracts; and book, film, and software review citations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Dates Covered 1963 to the present
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Sociological Abstracts, 1953-present.
Provider Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
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Page author: Laura Juraska
Date: 7/3/03


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