This guide presents a selection of resources to help you get started with your research in sociology. Use the menu on the left to navigate through the different sections of this guide.
If you would like assistance locating resources, developing your topic, or have any other questions, please reach out by email or schedule a consultation.
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There are different areas within sociology that may shape your approach to research, such as which resources you use as evidence, your search strategy, and the development of your topic:
- social organization, social change, human ecology, population and demographics, applied sociology, sociological methods and research
with subfields, including,
- comparative sociology, computational sociology, cross-cultural studies, economic sociology, feminist sociology, sociology of art, political sociology, public sociology, theories of technology, sociology of the family, sociology of knowledge, sociology of language
Begin with Library Search to explore the resources available to you through Vassar.