Sociology 315: Sex Roles

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Sociology 315 Sex Roles

• Library presentation by Hua Yi
• Fall, 2004

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Objectives

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

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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

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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.

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Book searchDatabases Available

• CSUSM Library Catalog  (our library)
• The Circuit   (4 academic libraries in San Diego
  area)
• Melvyl (UC system)

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Book Search Subject searches subject area

• country women aspects of studies       
  i.e. Russia women social conditions             
• women aspects of studies country
•         i.e. women education great Britain
• 3. women country aspects of studies       
  i.e. women Japan economic conditions

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Book SearchKeyword searches different areas

• Women employment and japan
• Russia and (employ or work) and women
• Will discuss in detail in article search

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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

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Three techniques for effective searchessteps 2
and 3

• truncation i.e. "sex" will get "sex, sexual,
  sexism" etc. --gt more discussion
• synonyms i.e. women, woman, female, girl  --gt
  more discussion
• Boolean operators and parentheses i.e. (women
  or female) and  (pictur or  portrait) and (mass
  media not tv) --gt more discussion and
  illustration.

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Sociology and Women's Studies Database Step 4

• 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.

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How to get full-text articleStep 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 dont 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
  

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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.

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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

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Annotated Bibliography(check here for examples)

• Special type of summary includes
• Authors qualification
• Purpose of the text
• Academic standing
• Authors standpoint
• Whom the author addresses to
• Your opinion

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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

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Citation Style Guides

• ASA Style Guide
• See the list here

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Sociology Research Resources Assistance

• Library Sociology Subject Guide
• Information Research Guide for Sociology
• Hyi_at_csusm.edu