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Sociology

This guide presents a general overview of library research for students enrolled in Sociology classes at Olympic College.

Search Terms for Articles

When searching for journal articles, you can use more terms and combine them using "boolean operators" in the advanced search of most database search engines.

Use Quotations around two or three word phrases. 

Example:
"health care"
"caste system"
"occupy wall street"

Use * Asterisk for truncation, to retrieve a root word and all possible endings. 

Example
:
integrat*   retrieves
integrate
integrated
integration


discriminat*   retrieves
discriminate
discrimination
discriminated
discriminating

Popular Databases

**Off-campus users: Click on the database name below and at the prompts, enter your student ID number and your last name.

Below is a partial list.  Please look for more article databases in the alphabetical and subject tabs above.