LibGuides: Sociology: Sociology of Family: Soc 3020

Databases for Journal Articles

The databases under the Finding Articles tab (on the left) would be great places to look for information. A few additional databases that relate to families are below.

Econlit
Major database for scholarly work by economists.
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts for publications covering gender-engaged scholarship.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ+ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.

Select Government & Other Resources

Administration for Children & Families
A federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families. Good site for statistics and other issues related to family.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Look under either family violence or domestic violence.
Pew Research Center
Full text publications from the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research organization that conducts public opinion polls and social science research.

Select Resources

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families by Judith Treas (Editor); Martin Richards (Editor); Jacqueline Scott (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470673539
Publication Date: 2014-05-12
Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering ,and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.
Family Law: a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Herring
ISBN: 9780199668526
Publication Date: 2014-03-10
What is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? Family Law: A Very Short Introduction gives the reader an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. I

The following is a useful journal to browse if you want to see what kinds of topics are published in this area.

Journal of Marriage & Family
published by the National Council on Family Relations, has been the leading research journal in the family field for more than 75 years and is consistently the most highly cited journal in Family Science.