Sociology

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Reading Lists

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The British Social Attitudes survey has been measuring and tracking changes in people's social, political and moral attitudes since 1983. We have the print versions in stock at 303.380941/BRI but for convenience, you can access comparative data and reports since 2010 via this site.


The Campbell library produced by the Campbell Collaboration, is a collection of systematic reviews relating to the effects of social interventions in areas such as crime, social welfare, education and international development. At the site, scroll down to Topic Browse and choose Campbell Subject Categories.

Look at the systematic reviews for your subject or view resources such as policy documents.


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Oxford Sociology Handbooks offer thorough introductions and a survey of the current state of research in key topics such as class, culture, migration, poverty, the body, sport etc. Chapters review key issues and major debates and indicate how the debates might evolve.

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Read authoritative, peer-reviewed, regularly updated entries written by experts covering criminology and criminal justice across the world. Topics include criminal behaviour, theory, juvenile justice, victimology, cybercrime, policing, race, ethnicity and crime and much more.

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Over 250 unlimited access in-depth guides to current and classic research across a range of subject areas. If you can't access something via this site, put the book title into our general Portsmouth catalogue as we have some titles via Ebook Central instead.

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Referencing

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Guidance and support for referencing in APA 7, including advice about reference generators

Your Subject Team

 Anne Worden

Faculty Librarian

email Anne.Worden@port.ac.uk

 Sharon Bittner

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