Recommended Reading 
The textbook for this course is:
Matthewman, Steve, Catherine Lane West-Newman and Bruce Curtis. 2007. Being Sociological. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. Library copies
There is a companion website for the book.
Other books in the Short Loan Collection can be found in the Course Materials list.
Reference Books
Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.
Databases & Articles
To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes journals and books. More databases are listed on the Sociology resource pages.
Academic versus Popular journals.
Statistics
- New Zealand Official Yearbook
The Yearbook is a very good starting place for statistical information. Library copies
- NZSTATS
New Zealand statistics sources.
- OFFSTATS
Official statistics from governments and international organisations.
Referencing and Plagiarism
The two preferred forms of referencing are Harvard and APA (America Psychological Association).
ReferenŠite Academic referencing resource
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