Below are suggestions for researching a societal issue or topic. These are just suggestions--feel free to try other searches if the ones below do not match your chosen issue or topic.
- Be sure to read your classroom assignment instructions carefully!
- Please note: The searches below are links that will take you into our library OneSearch database, where you'll see the results of the search. You can then begin reviewing the articles that come up and perhaps even choose a few that you can use in your assignment, if the search closely matches your topic.
- The searches below use library search techniques: AND, OR, parentheses, quotation marks, and the * symbol. For a refresher on these techniques, please see our library guide for database searching.
Search results in the library are different than in Google. Google gives you a lot of easy-to-understand, practical information. The library will give you primarily in-depth, technically-written, scientific studies. These are called scholarly articles. They can be difficult to understand at first, but if you can choose a scholarly article that relates to your topic and then review the article carefully, you can usually extract a main idea or a relevant fact or two that you can incorporate in your paper.
Racial Issues from a Sociology perspective
Homelessness from a Sociology perspective
Social Class from a Sociology perspective
Health Care from a Sociology perspective
Gender from a Sociology perspective
Environment from a Sociology perspective
Immigration from a Sociology perspective
Sexual Orientation from a Sociology perspective
Technology from a Sociology perspective