SOCIOL 222: Families, Labour and Love
Library Resources

Recommended Reading
Reference Books
Library Catalogue
Journals
Databases & Articles
Referencing and Plagiarism

Family gathered around the radio.
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[Accessed 17 October 2005]

Lecturer: Dr Vivienne Elizabeth

Subject Librarian:
Musarrat Begum

Department of Sociology

Recommended Reading

Books in the Short Loan Collection are in the Course Materials list.

Required Textbook

Baker, Maureen. 2010. Choices and Constraints in Family Life. 2nd ed,Toronto: Oxford University Press. Library copies

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. Encyclopedia articles are often accompanied by bibliographies for further reading.

Ponzetti, James J., ed. 2003. International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family. 2nd ed, New York: Macmillan. Library copies

Ritzer, George, ed. 2007. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden: Blackwell. Library copies

Scott, John, and Gordon Marshall, eds. 2009. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd revised ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Library copies

Library Catalogue

Keyword Searches

Tips for Keyword searching:

• Search for variant spellings: labor or labour
• Use a truncation symbol to find variant word endings. Use * in The Catalogue and ? in Voyager. Search for feminis* to find feminising, feminism, feminisms, feminist, feminists, etc.
• Use quotation marks to find phrases: "extended family"
• Search for synonyms and related terms: "family income" or "family finance"

Examples of keyword searches
marriage AND (money OR finance OR income)
(marriage OR husband OR wife) AND (money OR financ* OR income*)
(power OR control* OR spend*) AND (marriage OR husband* OR wife*) AND (money OR financ* OR income)

Subject Headings

If there are many titles under a subject you may prefer to sort the results by date, with the most recent publications first. To do this, click on the down arrow by 'Sort by:' and select 'Latest date first.'

These general topics often have more specific subdivisions, for example:
   Households
   Households - Economic aspects
   Households - Economic aspects - New Zealand

Journals

These are some of the journals with articles about sociology and the family.

• Family Matters
• Journal of Comparative Family Studies
• Journal of Marriage and the Family

Databases & Articles

To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes journal articles. There are more databases listed on the Sociology resource pages.

• Sociological Abstracts An index with abstracts from almost 2000 social science journals.
• FAMILY: Australian Family & Society Abstracts An index to current Australian writing and research on the legal, sociological, psychological, economic and demographic situation of Australian children and adults.
• Gender Studies Database Covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents are available, and to selected websites.

Referencing and Plagiarism

The Chicago Manual of Style Online

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