Taking my lead from The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources (Herron, 2002), I have created a bibliography for students of sociology. However, my bibliography will be more tightly focused than the annotated bibliography provided by Zabel and Avery (2002). This resource list is designed to aid a sociology professor who has requested a list of sociological resources—in a variety of formats and sub-fields—that her/his students might make use of in her/his Introduction to Sociology course at an academic institution and possibly other future undergraduate courses. Since I have full access to all the resources available in Emporia State University’s William Allen White University Library (library.emporia.edu) I have chosen to focus the bibliography on information that is available through White Library, as well as some information that is openly available on the internet. Many of the resources listed on this bibliography were cited by Zabel and Avery (2002), but a good proportion of the others were selected based on their availability, and the desire the provide a variety of resources in different sociological subfields and various formats, to suit the preferences and needs of a variety of students with different assignments and information needs.

Because, as Zabel and Avery (2002) point out, sociologists tend to predominantly cite literature that has been published in the past ten years. With this in mind and the fact that sociological literature can become dated quite easily, this bibliography focuses on literature that has been published within the past fifteen to twenty years. However, classics texts or theoretical works are included because they are not subject to the same standards of currency as other works in the discipline.

The bibliography is arranged first by subfield, and then by the format type of the items. I have endeavored to include several different formats, and materials that cover different elements of the given subfields, for each of these lists. Since the entire bibliography was premised on the collection of the William Allen White Library at Emporia State University, the list reflects both the strengths and the weaknesses of that collection. I designed the bibliography so that the entire list could be posted on a website as one item, or each page (covering a different subfield) could be posted separately. Additionally, each page could be printed out and given out to students as a handout. In other words, the bibliography was designed to be as flexible as possible, so that it could be used for multiple purposes, including for students in courses other than Introduction to Sociology.

Full-text Sociology Databases	Abstract/Citation Only Sociology Databases
Sociology Dictionaries	Sociology Encyclopedias
Other Sociology Resources	General Sociological Sources
Sociological Theory Sources	Biographies of Social Theorists
Cultural Sociology	Race and Ethnicity
Sex and Gender	Class Inequality
Criminal Justice	Sociology of Marriage and Family
Sociology of Education	Rural Sociology
References

• Annual Reviews
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=A

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=D

• EBSCO Host EJS
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=E

• Expanded Academic ASAP
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=E

• JSTOR
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=J

• Social Sciences Full Text
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=S

• Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition
  http://www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=W

• World Fact Book
  http://www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=W

Abstract/Citation Only Databases

• Contemporary Women’s Issues
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=C

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=C

• Government Publications Online (GPO)
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=G

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=N

• Social Work Abstracts
  www.emporia.edu/libsv/databases/letter.php?letter=S

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• Dictionaries
  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User’s Guide to Sociological Language. By Allan G. Johnson. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. This is an electronic resource.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1426653

  • A Dictionary of Sociology. Edited by John Scott and Gordon Marshall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. This is an electronic resource.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1574465

  • The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology. By Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, and Bryan S. Turner. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1034299

• Encyclopedias
  • Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda Montgomery. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1383458

  • Sociology Basics. Edited by Carl L. Bankston III. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2000. This is an electronic resource.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1426694

• Other Reference Sources
  • A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers. 5th ed. New York: Worth Publishers, 2001.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1420477

  • Required Reading: Sociology’s Most Influential Books. Edited by Dan Clawson. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. This is an electronic resource.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1395674

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• Print Serials
  • American Sociological Review
    White Library owns v.63 (1998)—present
    This serial is also available electronically. See catalog record for link.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1314712

  • Annual Review of Sociology
    White Library owns v.1 (1975)-v.33 (2007)
    This serial is also available electronically. See catalog record for link.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1110217.
    Online version also available at www.annualreviews.org/

  • Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
    White Library owns v.27 (1998)—present
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1314370

  • Sociological Abstracts
    White Library owns v.1 (1952)—present
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1315531

  • Sociological Quarterly
    White Library owns v.1 (1960)—present
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1315700

• Serials Available Electronically
  
  • The American Journal of Sociology
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1431351

  • Canadian Journal of Sociology
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1432200

  • Electronic Journal of Sociology
    www.sociology.org/

• Books
  • Introduction to Sociology. By Theodor W. Adorno. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1375779

  • An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. By Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc J.D. Wacquant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1402690

  • The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology. By Lisa J. McIntyre. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1420470

• Electronic Books
  
  • Sociology: The Basics. By Martin Albrow. New York: Routledge, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1466829

• Websites
  
  • The Gallup Organization
    www.gallup.com/

  • United States Census Bureau
    www.census.gov/

  • Sociology Central
    www.sociology.org.uk/

  • SocioSite. Based at the University of Amsterdam.
    www.sociosite.net/index.php

• Audiovisual Materials
  
  • The Sociological Imagination. A presentation of Dallas County Community College District. New York: Insight Media, 1991.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1373940

  • Sociological Perspectives. Produced and directed by Ken Harrison. New York: Insight Media, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1443300

    
    

• Books
  
  • From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Translated and edited by H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1243377

  • Handbook of Social Theory. Edited by George Ritzer and Barry Smart. London: Sage, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1382884

  • History and Social Theory. By Peter Burke. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1313374

  • The Meaning of General Theoretical Sociology: Tradition and Formalization. By Thomas J. Fararo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1308729

  • Modern Social Theory: From Parsons to Habermas. By Ian Craib. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1003192

  • Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy. By Karl Marx. Translated and edited by T.B. Bottomore. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1207337

  • Social Theory and Modern Sociology. By Anthony Giddens. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1402694

• Electronic Books
  
  • The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Edited by Bryan S. Turner. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1426547

  • Three Faces of God: Society, Religion, and the Categories of Totality in the Philosophy of Emile Durkheim. By Donald A. Nielsen. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1395125

• Serials Available Electronically
  
  • Theory and Society
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1437584

    
    

• Books
  
  • A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers. Edited by Judith Richlin-Klonsky and Ellen Strenski. New York: Worth Publishers, 2001.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1420477

  • The Handbook of Qualitative Research. 2nd ed. Edited by Norman K. Denzen and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1378251

  • Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analyzing Talk, Text, and Interaction. By David Silverman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1580237

  • Materials and Methods for Sociology Research. By James Gruber, Judith Pryor, and Patricia Berge. New York: Libraryworks, 1980.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1063819

  • The Practice of Social Research. 7th ed. By Earl R. Babbie. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1995.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1579392

  • Research Methods. By Patrick McNeill and Steve Chapman. New York: Routledge, 2005.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1521697

• Serials
  
  • Sociology and Social Research
    White Library owns v. 13 (1928)—v. 76 (1992)
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1317831

• Websites
  
  • Research Methods. Sociology Central
    www.sociology.org.uk/clink.htm

  • Research Methods and Statistics. SocioSite. Based at the University of Amsterdam.
    www.sociosite.net/topics/research.php

  • Web Center for Social Research Methods
    www.socialresearchmethods.net/

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• Books
  
  • Authors of their Own Lives: Intellectual Biographies by Twenty American Sociologists. Edited by Bennett M. Berger. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1320110

  • C. Wright Mills. By J.E.T. Eldridge. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1983.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1265372

  • Emile Durkheim. By Anthony Giddens. New York: Viking Press, 1979.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1078826

  • Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918. By Mary Jo Deegan. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1998.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1015336

  • Karl Marx: His Life and Thought. By David McLellan. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1249388

  • Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography. By Fritz Ringer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1470354

  • Talcott Parsons. By Peter Hamilton. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1983.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1265518

• Websites
  • Biographies of Sociologists. Sponsored by the University of Canterbury Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
    www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/resources/biograph/index.shtml

  • Dead Sociologists’ Homepage. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Superior Sociology/Anthropology Program.
    www2.uwsuper.edu/HPS/MBALL/DEAD_SOC.HTM

  • Famous Sociologists: Strong Shoulders to Stand On. SocioSite. Based at the University of Amsterdam.
    www.sociosite.net/topics/sociologists.php

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• Books
  
  • Cultural Sociology. Edited by Lyn Spillman. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1420478

  • Cultural Studies. By Chris Rojek. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1572027

  • Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture. By Peter Worsley. New York: New Press, 1997.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1352661

• Electronic Books
  
  • Culture and Public Action. Edited by Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton. Stanford, CA: Stanford Social Sciences, 2004.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1561500

  • The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. By Jeffrey C. Alexander. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1559808

• Audiovisual Materials
  • Culture. Produced and directed by Ken Harrison. New York: Insight Media, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1443301

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• Books
  
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 2nd ed. Edited by Robert Dassanowsky and Jeffrey Lehman. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1515438. This book is also available electronically.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1546471

  • The Idea of Race. Edited by Robert Bernasconi and Tommy L. Lott. Indianapolis: Hackett Publications, 2001.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1374429

  • A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America’s Multicultural Heritage. Edited by Elliott Robert Barkan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1373044

  • Race. Edited by Robert Bernasconi. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1386305

  • White Men on Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping of Cultural Consciousness. By Joe Feagin and Eileen O’Brien. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1430710

• Electronic Books
  
  • “Mixed Race” Studies: A Reader. Edited and introduced by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe. New York : Routledge, 2004.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1561658

  • Racial Theories. By Michael Banton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1466487

• Audiovisual Materials
  
  • Race: the Floating Signifier. Produced, directed, and edited by Sut Jhally. Media Education Foundation, 1996.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1524864

  • Race: the Power of an Illusion. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1442483

  • Understanding Race. Produced and directed by Lynn Dougherty. Lucky Pictures, Inc., 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1465860

• Books
  
  • Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays. By Estelle B. Friedman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1575434

  • Gender Relations in Public and Private: New Research Perspectives. Edited by Lydia Morris and E. Stina Lyon. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1373913

  • The Gendered Society. By Michael S. Kimmel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1385537

  • The Handbook of Language and Gender. Edited by Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1447732

  • The Social Construction of Differences and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. Selected and edited by Tracy E. Ore. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1517984

  • The Sociology of Gender: A Text Reader. By Laura Kramer. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1374429

  • Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality. By Deborah L. Rhode. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1351011

• Serials Available Electronically
  
  • Journal of Gender Studies
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1434784

    
    

• Books
  
  • The American Perception of Class. By Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1017334

  • Class in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: An Analysis of Theories and Measurement Strategies. By Michael D. Grimes. New York: Praeger, 1991.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1293778

  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty. By Ruby K. Payne. Highlands, TX: Aha! Process, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1420474

  • The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight About Class. By Benjamin DeMott. New York: Morrow, 1990.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1290034

  • Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams. By Alfred Lubrano. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1524376

  • The New Class Society. By Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1378610

  • Who Rules America?: Power and Politics. By G. William Domhoff. Boston: McGraw- Hill, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1576474

• Electronic Books
  
  • New Class Culture: How an Emergent Class is Transforming America’s Culture. By Avrom Fleishman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1559212

• Audiovisual Materials
  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty. Highlands, TX: Aha! Process, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1538700

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• Books
  • Crime. Edited by Mikko Canini. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2007.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1568345

  • Crime and Criminals. Edited by James D. Torr. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2004.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1455837

  • Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. Edited by Sanford H. Kadish. New York: Free Press, 1983.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1268228

  • Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. 2nd ed. Edited by Joshua Dressler. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1421247

  • The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. By Jeffrey H. Reiman. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2004.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1469367

  • The Wilding of America: How Greed and Violence Are Eroding our Nation’s Character. By Charles Derber. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1330953

• Websites
  
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics. U.S. Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs.
    www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

  • National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.
    www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/index.html

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Website.
    www.ncjrs.org/

• Serials Available Electronically
  
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1519942

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• Books
  • American Families: A Multicultural Reader. Edited by Stephanie Coontz, Maya Parson, and Gabrielle Raley. New York: Routledge, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1368304

  • The American Family. Edited by Karen Duda. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1424181

  • Changing Rhythms in American Family Life. By Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa A. Milkie. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1538165

  • Encyclopedia of Family Life. Edited by Carl L. Bankston III. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1375428

  • The Family. Edited by Aurina Ojeda. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1427644

  • The Family in America: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth F. Shores. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1419405

  • International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family. Edited by James J. Ponzetti, Jr. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1423752

• Audiovisual Materials
  
  • Work and Family. Written by Polly Radosh; directed by Danielle Hunt. New York: Insight Media, 1995.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1366107

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• Books
  
  • Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education. Edited by John G. Richardson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1005534

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Education. Edited by Maureen T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1384378

  • Schools and Society: A Reader in Education and Sociology. Edited by Jeanne H. Ballantine. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1985.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1010719

  • Social Analysis of Education: After the New Sociology. By Philip Wexler. New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1026160

  • The Social Organization of Schooling. Edited by Larry V. Hedges and Barbara Schneider. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1476243

  • Working for Equity in Heterogeneous Classrooms: Sociological Theory in Practice. Edited by Elizabeth G. Cohen and Rachel A. Lotan. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1353737

• Electronic Books
  
  • Sociology of Education: Emerging Perspectives. Edited by Carlos Alberto Torres and Theodore R. Mitchell. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1394573

• Audiovisual Materials
  
  • Common Threads. Talking Dog Media, 1995.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1351119

• Serials
  
  • Sociology of Education
    White Library has v.71 (1998)—present
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1316388

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• Books
  • Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by David L. Brown, Louis E. Swanson, and Alan W. Barton. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1473703

  • The Community in Rural America. By Kenneth P. Wilkinson. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1290548

  • Rural Communities: Legacy and Change. Produced and directed by Keith Newman and Gary Mills. South Burlington, VT: Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1993.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1423993

• Electronic Books
  
  • Persistence and Change in Rural Communities: A 50-Year Follow-Up to Six Classic Studies. Edited by A.E. Luloff and R.S. Krannich. New York : CABI, 2002.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1559351

  • Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America. By Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1397145

• Serials
  
  • Rural Sociology
    White Library owns v.1 (1927)—present.
    whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1315412

• Online Journal
  
  • International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food www.csafe.org.nz/ijsaf/

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