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This is a guide to finding the best resources for research in Sociology.
Last Updated: May 23, 2013 URL: http://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/sociology Print Guide RSS UpdatesEmail AlertsShareThis

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This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

Click on any of the tabs above to find information about how to locate Sociology resources

      
     

    Tips & Tricks

    What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

    What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

    Beware Wikipedia!
    It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

    Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
    Be critical about everything you read

    Avoid Plaigiarism
    Don't use an author's work or ideas without referencing them (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

     

    Books of Interest

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    Body Style - Theresa M. Winge
    ISBN: 9781847880239
    Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency, and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural identity.

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    Cities for People, Not for Profit - Brenner, Marcuse & Mayer (Eds)
    ISBN: 9780415601788
    The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization.

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    Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out: kids living & learning with new media - Mizuko Ito ... [et al.]
    ISBN: 0262013363
    Today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networks sites & text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youth's social & recreational use of digital media. This text fills that gap, reporting on an ambitious 3 year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living & learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs & in online spaces.

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    Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives - Beilharz & Hogan (Eds)
    ISBN: 9780195575286
    Introduces students to the study of society from an interdisciplinary perspective. Defining sociology as the data and patterns of everyday life, the book is structured around three sections: place, time and division. The many ways that the lives of Australians intersect with broader societal notions of place and geography, history and culture, institutions and social divisions are covered expertly and creatively by each of the contributors.

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    Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology - Nash, Scott & Amenta
    ISBN: 9781444330939
    A complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field.  Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international set of scholars addressing key issues concerning globalization, social movements, and citizenship

     

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