Sociology 315: Sex Roles

1. Sociology 315: Sex Roles Library presentation by Hua Yi Fall, 2004

2. Objectives • For your Class Project • Find books • Find articles • Find Web Sites • APA Citation Style

3. Your Study Focus • Education of boys and girls • Status of men and women in relationship • Employment of Men and Women • Equality of treatment of both sexes in the legal/criminal system • Presence of men and women in political and military • Treatment of men and women in the medicine/health

4. Country Background Information • Country information put your research perspectives. There are several sources of information on countries. • Country Watch -- up-to-date information on many countries of the world, including a key set of political and economic information. • CIA Fact Book -- basic information about countries, such as population, language, religion, etc. Give a quick glimpse of countries. • Cambridge Encyclopedia of... (China, India, Latin America and the Middle East etc..) detailed information provided.

5. Book search:Databases Available • CSUSM Library Catalog(our library) • The Circuit(4 academic libraries in San Diego area) • Melvyl(UC system)

6. Book Search: Subject searches subject area • [country] + women+ aspects of studiesi.e. Russia women social conditions              • women + aspects of studies+ [country] i.e. women education great Britain 3.women + [country] + aspects of studiesi.e. women Japan economic conditions

7. Book Search:Keyword searches different areas • Women employment and japan* • Russia* and (employ* or work) and women • Will discuss in detail in article search

8. Article Search Steps • 1: Write your topic statement: clearly defines what you are looking for. • 2: Break the topic down into concepts and choose the terms to express the concepts. • 3: Connect the terms with the operators "and" "or". Use truncation and parenthesis when needed. • 4: Select the best database for your topic. • 5: Review your results & select the articles for your topic. • 6: Get your hand on the article you want

9. Three techniques for effective searches:steps 2 and 3 • truncation: i.e. "sex*" will get "sex, sexual, sexism" etc. --> more discussion • synonyms: i.e. women, woman, female, girl  --> more discussion • Boolean operators and parentheses : i.e. (women or female) and  (pictur* or  portrait*) and (mass media not tv) --> more discussion and illustration.

10. EBSCOhost --[SFX Enabled] interdisciplinary and full-text access. JSTOR--fulltext backfiles of core scholarly journals, cross-disciplinary Project Muse --full-text scholarly journals cross-disciplinary ScienceDirect -- full text access and cross-disciplinary. Sociological Abstracts --[SFX Enabled], comprehensive for sociology and related fields, abstracts. Social Services Abstracts --[SFX Enabled], focused on social work, human services, and related areas; abstracts. Womens Resources International(1972-present) -- comprehensive for women's studies, abstracts only. Sociology and Women's Studies Database: Step 4

11. How to get full-text article:Step 6 • If full text – get it • If you see , click on it • Link to online full-text article • Give you location for print journal in our library • Give you an interlibrary loan form to fill • If you don’t see the above two choices, go to the library catalog and type the journal title in title search to see if our library has it. • If library has it, get the call number • If library doesn't have it, use InterLibrary Loan

12. Examples • Topic: correlation between family violence and divorce in Britain • Concept - 1.  divorce  2.family violence 3. Britain • Search Statement - (family violence or wife abus*)  and (divorce or separation) and (Britain or United Kingdom or England)Database - Sociological Abstracts • Review results and  select an articleHague,-Gill; Wilson,-Claudia "The Silenced Pain: Domestic Violence 1945-1970 " Journal-of-Gender-Studies; 2000, 9, 2, July, 157-169. • Click  ,SFX window reveals EbscoHost database has the full-text article. Click the link to EbscoHost and retrieve the article.

13. Conduct Research on the Web • Use Subject Gateway • SOSIG • SociSite • Follow Professional sites (departments, professors, librarians) • Sociological Tour of Cyperspace, • Library Research Guide: Sociology • Search Engine (when you have particular names and phrases) • Anomic Suicide • Some Database • Sociological Abstracts

14. Annotated Bibliography(check here for examples) • Special type of summary includes: • Author’s qualification • Purpose of the text • Academic standing • Author’s standpoint • Whom the author addresses to • Your opinion

15. APA Style(library has the book & an online guide is here) • BookBllom, A. (1987). The closing of the American mind. New York: Simon And Schuster. • ArticleHenry, A. (1990). Making the grade in today's schools. Time, 135, 28-31.Pipho, C. (1998). Voter apathy or voter overload? Phi Delta Kappan 6 (2), 101-102. Retrieved January 14, 2003 from Academic Search Elite database. • Web SiteKearl, M. (n.d). Gender & Society. Retreived January 14, 2004 from http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html

16. Citation Style Guides • ASA Style Guide • See the list here

17. Library Sociology Subject Guide Information Research Guide for Sociology Hyi@csusm.edu Sociology Research & Resources Assistance