Event Title
Sociological Abstracts: What happened to the sociology?
Location
Burlington Vermont
Start Date
8-13-2013 2:35 PM
End Date
8-13-2013 2:50 PM
Description
The presentation was an illustration of the large proportion of records in Sociological Abstracts not representing sociological research. The author's work with a class of upper level sociology undergraduates showed him that students were having great difficulty locating appropriate literature despite using Sociological Abstracts. Social work, psychology, and other disciplines appear to have an outsized presence in the database. No real conclusions are possible at this time but the author plans to continue his investigation into this issue.
Sociological Abstracts: What happened to the sociology?
Burlington Vermont
The presentation was an illustration of the large proportion of records in Sociological Abstracts not representing sociological research. The author's work with a class of upper level sociology undergraduates showed him that students were having great difficulty locating appropriate literature despite using Sociological Abstracts. Social work, psychology, and other disciplines appear to have an outsized presence in the database. No real conclusions are possible at this time but the author plans to continue his investigation into this issue.
Comments
Unfortunately the presentation can not be made available here as it mostly consists of copyrighted screen shots from Sociological Abstracts.