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SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for books and monographs, and full text for conference papers.
Social Work Abstracts
The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains records spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
JSTOR
Expanded access to journals is available through June 30, 2021.

JSTOR is the "scholarly journal archive." A non-profit cooperative project of university libraries, JSTOR has converted the contents of core journals in academic disciplines into electronic form. Winthrop subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, & IV collections. Journals to which Winthrop subscribes are linked from the Dacus Online Catalog (DOC).

Expanded access including over 25,000 books, as well as JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections. More information about the content JSTOR is making available to support schools impacted by COVID-19 is here: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/.

A Dictionary of Sociology by John Scott
ISBN: 9780199683581
Publication Date: 2014-10-01
A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science.

Advances in Sociology Research by Jared A. Jaworski
ISBN: 9781536101515
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
The authors of this book discuss the latest advances in sociology research.
Empowerment Series: Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment by Charles Zastrow; Karen K. Kirst-Ashman
ISBN: 9781305101913
Publication Date: 2015-02-18
Looks at the lifespan through the lens of social work theory and practice, covering human development and behavior theories within the context of family, organizational, and community systems. Using a chronological lifespan approach, the book presents separate chapters on biological, psychological, and social impacts at the different lifespan stages with an emphasis on strengths and empowerment.