SOCIOL 323: Consuming Interests: The Sociology of Food
Library Resources

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

Subject Librarian:
Musarrat Begum

Recommended Reading

Online readings and books in the Short Loan Collection are in the Course Materials list.

• Beardsworth, Alan and Teresa Keil. 1997. Sociology on the Menu: An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society, London: Routledge. Library copies
• Germov, John and Lauren Williams. 2008. A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite, 3rd Edition, Melbourne: 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.

• Ritzer, George, ed. 2007. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden: Blackwell. Library copies
• Scott, John, and Gordon Marshall, eds. 2005. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Library copies
• Smelser, Neil J., and Paul B. Baltes, eds. 2001. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science. Library copies

Library Catalogue

Subject Headings

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.

• Sociological Abstracts An index with abstracts from almost 2000 social science journals
• SAGE Full-Text Collections: Sociology Full-text journals from the publisher SAGE

Referencing and Plagiarism

The Chicago Manual of Style Online

Honesty and integrity are valued in all academic activities at The University of Auckland. This website provides information about the key principles and practices underlying academic honesty, and advice and resources: Academic Honesty and Plagiarism.

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