Some Reference Books in the Library, Level 1 (Main Floor):
—at the ends of the chapters and articles in these books are lists of other sources

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (20 volumes).
In-depth, scholarly background information on many subjects, for example, 28 articles on Gender, 17 articles on Feminism, 10 articles on Race, and 15 articles on class.
Call number: Ref H41 .I58 2001

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism

Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender.
Over 100 in-depth chapters by leading scholars.
Call number: Ref HQ1115 .E43 2001

History of Women in the United States (20 volumes).
Collections of lengthy articles organized by topic, e.g., Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work in volumes 3 and 4.
Call number: Ref HQ1410 .H57 1992

Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History.
See volume 3, part 14: "The Social Order and Social Identity."
Call number: Ref E169.1 .E624 2001

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
See article on "Advertising"
Call number: Ref E169.1 .S764 2000

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior.
Call number: Ref HV6017 .E53 2001

Contemporary American Religion.
Call number: Ref BL2525 .C65 2000

Encyclopedia of the American Religious experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements
Has a sociological perspective, but consult more recent publications for information for the last twenty years.
Call number: Ref BL2525 .E53 1987

Credo Reference
A searchable, online collection of reference books

Some recommended searches to find books

• First search in the Lake Forest College library catalog, then "Repeat Search in the I-Share catalog."
• A couple of subject heading searches in the I-Share catalog:
  Beauty, Personal Psychological aspects.
  Beauty, Personal Social aspects.
• Click the "Advanced Search" tab; use the "these words as a phrase" option; search by "Subject words."

Advanced Search = ("popular culture")[in Subject Words]
http://tinyurl.com/2u9zcc

Advanced Search = ("race identity")[in Subject Words]
http://tinyurl.com/2u42rz

Advanced Search = (homosexuality)[in Subject Words]
tinyurl.com/2pxd65

Advanced Search = ("gender identity")[in Subject Words]
http://tinyurl.com/yorlcu

Advanced Search = ("sex role?")[in Subject Words]
— the question mark allows searches for "role" or "roles"
http://tinyurl.com/2fc2xk

Advanced Search = ("ethnic relations")[in Subject Words]
http://tinyurl.com/yo4d36

Other terms to enter into Advanced Search with "these words as a phrase" and "Subject words" selected, or to add as a second search term:
Masculinity
Femininity
Media
Violence
Spirituality
Criminology
Beauty

 

• Use links from the library website to gain access to these databases, including this page and library.lakeforest.edu/journals/a-z.html.
• Use the terms suggested for catalog searches above.
• Click the Find It button to access the complete article when the full text of the article is not included in the database.
• Combine terms with AND to get fewer search results, like:
     “popular culture” AND feminism
  Combine terms with OR to get more results, like:
      feminism OR women

Academic Search Premier - EBSCOhost (cross-disciplinary, both scholarly journals and popular news)

Sociological Abstracts (all scholarly articles in the discipline of Sociology)
Check the boxes for "Journal articles only" and "English only."
Search in this database "beauty industry" "Anywhere."

Academic Universe - Lexis-Nexis (news articles, many from academic sources such as The New York Times and the Economist)

JSTOR (scholarly articles from a limited number of journals, all articles at least 2 years old)

Project Muse (all scholarly articles from selected journals, mostly literary subjects)

Chicago Tribune (1985 - present)

Ethnic Newswatch (articles from ethnic and minority publishers and authors)

Periodical Abstracts (cross-disciplinary, both scholarly journals and popular news)
Use quotation marks to search words as phrases, e.g. "popular culture."

Communication & Mass Media Complete

New York Times Article Archive (1851 - present, 1851 - 1922 full text)

Searches in Sociological Abstracts retrieve websites with scholarly content.

• RefWorks (www.refworks.com/refworks)
• Lake Forest College Citation Guides for Online Sources
• Everyday Writer (online Hacker guide)