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| Contents & Search Tips |
| Sociological Abstracts |
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and abstracting of journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations
and conference papers. Subjects include culture and social structures; demography
and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation
research; family and social welfare; health, medicine and the law; history and
theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass pehnomena and
political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning,
forecasting and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and
urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology
and group interaction; sociology of the arts; business and education; studies
in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; and women's
studies. Coverage from 1963, with abstracts since 1973. |
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| Use at the end of a search term to truncate, or within a term as a multicharacter wildcard, eg. femini* will retrieve articles using feminist, feminism, feminine, etc.
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Use ? as a single wildcard within a search term, eg. wom?n will retrieve articles using both woman and women. | |||||||||||||||||
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Boolean operators can be used in either Basic or Command Line search screens.
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| where both terms are present | |||||||||||||||||
| where either term is present | |||||||||||||||||
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| finds one search term within a certain number of words of a second search term | |||||||||||||||||
| finds one search term within ten words of a second search term | |||||||||||||||||
| finds a first search term when it appears before a second search term (the two terms are not necessarily next to each other) | |||||||||||||||||
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finds a first search term appearing after a second search term (the two terms are not necessarily next to each other) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sociological Abstracts allows you to limit your searches in both Basic and Advanced Search screens. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Date | The default will search all records. Use the drop down menus to limit to a range of years. | |||||||||||||||||
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Latest update | Click the radio button to limit your search to documents added to the database within the last week. | |||||||||||||||||
| Journal articles | Click this button to limit your search to journal articles only. | |||||||||||||||||
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English | Click this button to limit your search to documents in English. | |||||||||||||||||
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