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SOCA 201 -- Social Problems -- B. Snowadzky
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Assignment |
Research paper on a social problem. Include a description of the social problem including how the social problem is evident in society, some of the causes, relationship to other social problems, efforts to resolve this problem, and proposed solutions. Include a section of your own opinion, as well.
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Books / Encyclopedias |
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Finding Articles |
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Academic Search Premier -- covers the areas of study: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Date coverage varies according to the publication. Provides full-text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications.
Business Source Premier -- Citations and full-text articles about local, national, and international business and industry.
CQ Researcher -- Congressional Quarterly Researcher explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. All full-text.
CJPI / Criminal Justice Periodical Index --Index to 175 U.S. and international journals in criminal justice. The publications indexed offer research support in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Full-text included for many articles.
Maine Newsstand -- Index to and full text coverage of four Maine newspapers. Database includes comprehensive coverage of the Bangor Daily News (12/3/92-present) and the Portland Press Herald (10/30/95-present). Selected business coverage of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel (8/12/93-8/27/97) and Maine Times (2/4/95-present). Updated regularly.
Newspapers (Proquest) -- Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.
New York Times Historical -- The Historical New York Times (1851 to 4 years ago) offers searchable full text, with full page and article images (PDF). This resource includes articles, reviews, advertisements, comics, photos, maps and graphics, editorials, letters, and obituaries.
PsycARTICLES -- PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from 53 psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. The database is updated daily.
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Internet Resources |
Google News Archive Search -- News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people, ideas and see how they have been described over time. In addition to searching for the most relevant articles for their query, users can get an historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically created timeline. Search results include both content that is accessible to all users and content that requires a fee. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the events.
Infomine -- 114,000+ well annotated and cataloged sites for academic research. Search all subject categories at once, or select one from the list to focus in.
Academic Info -- College and research level internet resources.
Librarians' Index to the Internet -- carefully selected and extensively annotated sites of use in academic research and for may general inquires.
Google -- Internet search engine. Ranks by site popularity.
Yahoo! -- Internet search engine. Ranks by site relevancy.
Vivisimo -- Searches several search engines at once.