Social Sciences
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Overview
The university library holds general reference works (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.), specialized publications on the Social Sciences subjects treated in the research and teaching departments. All documents and electronic resources can be found in the catalogue a-z.lu.
The Social Sciences collection is extensive and covers several areas such as sociology, anthropology and criminology.
However, please note that the Economics collection is located on the 3rd floor and has a thematic guide dedicated to the discipline.
The Education collection is on the 1st floor and also has a dedicated thematic guide.
Selected resources in Social Sciences
Books
Available at the LLC
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Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology
Ritzer, George – Blackwell, 2007 -
Encyclopedia of social psychology
Baumeister, Roy. – Sage, 2007 -
Encyclopedia of social work
Mizrahi, Terry – NASW Press, 2008 -
Encyclopedia of the city
Caves Roger – Routledge, 2013 -
Grundbegriffe der Soziologie
Kopp, Johannes. – Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010 -
Lexikon zur Soziologie
Fuchs-Heinritz, Werner. – Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011 -
Dictionary of statistics & methodology
Vogt, Paul; Johnson, Burke. – Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2011 -
Sage dictionary of social research methods
Jupp, Victor. – Los Angeles: Sage, 2013 -
Dictionnaire critique de la sociologie
Boudon, Raymond. – Presses universitaires de France, 2011 -
Le dictionnaire des sciences humaines
Dortier, Jean-François. – Sciences Humaines Ed., 2008 -
21st-century sociology: a reference handbook
Bryant, Clifton. – Sage, 2007 -
Handbook of comparative social policy
Kennett, Patricia. – Edward Elgar, 2013 -
Handbook of measurement issues in family research
Hofferth, Sandra. – Psychology Press, 2012 -
Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies
Qvortrup, Jens; Corsaro, William; Honig, Michael-Sebastian. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 -
Handbook of social psychology
Fiske, Susan. – Hoboken: Wiley, 2010 -
Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education
Marschark, Marc; Spencer, Patricia. – Oxford University Press, 2011 -
Routledge handbook of multilingualism
Martin-Jones, Marilyn. – Routledge, 2012 -
Participant observation: A guide for field workers
DeWalt, Kathleen; DeWalt, Billie – Rowman & Littlefield, 2011 -
Sequential analysis: A guide for behavioral researchers
Gottman, John; Roy, Anup. – Cambride University Press, 2008 -
Doing qualitative research
Silverman, David. – London: Sage, 2013 -
Social research methods
Bryman, Alan. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 -
Social research methods
Walliman, Nicholas. – Los Angeles: Sage, 2012
e-Books
Available via a-z.lu for registered users
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50 sociology classics
A continuing project of the University of Graz offers bibliographical information on the significant scientists in the field of social sciences from the past three centuries. -
Online-Handbook Demography
Contributions in the field of population, demography and population composition from a historical and current perspective.
Journals
E-Journals
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Persée
The portal for scientific journals in the humanities and social sciences, aims to digitize and put online retrospective collections of a vast corpus of French journals. The temporary embargo for the most recent editions from the last 2 to 5 years is applied. -
Oxford Academics
Offers access to abstracts and full texts of e-journals specialized in humanities, law, social sciences and STM subjects. -
Sage Journals Online
Can by browse by topics, such as Humanities and Social Sciences (480 journals) -
Taylor and Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library
The journal collection Social Science and Humanity (SSH-library) encompasses more than 900 journals and offers direct access to the full text article (from year’s issues 1997)(access only in UNI).
Available via a-z.lu for registered users
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SocINDEX
Bibliographical and full-text database on theory and applied sociology as well as related fields. -
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences / IBSS
Bibliographical database. Subject: sociology and related social sciences. Geography: worldwide coverage, ca. 55% English -
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Theses from UK / USA -
Web of Science
A classic among citation databases with its SSCI: Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1956). -
SCOPUS
Multidisciplinary abstract and reference database for research literature and high-quality internet sources -
JSTOR
Interdisciplinary journal archive presenting over 1,400 journals, starting from the first year of publication. -
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Gives you full-text access to 74,000 journals. There are around 400 Open Access Publications in the field of Social Sciences. -
FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank (via Fachportal Pädagogik)
Open online access, bibliographical database, mainly in German, on every aspect of the education system -
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Reference database in English with abstracts from all areas of education and psychology -
PsycINFO
Reference database in English with abstracts from the field of psychology and related fields. Access only on campus. -
PSYNDEX
The most comprehensive abstract database of psychological literature, audiovisual media, intervention programs, and tests from the German-speaking countries. -
ILMES
Online encyclopedia on the methods of empirical social research explaining the vocabulary of empirical social research and data analysis in brief articles. -
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
Holds open access documents from more than 2,000 scientific sources from the whole world. -
HAL archives-ouvertes.fr
Designed for authors to deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields and to make them publicly available.
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ALLBUS
German General Social Survey. -
American Sociological Association
Publications (ASA Style Guide). -
Ariadne
Has extensive records of journal articles in German and English as well as books belonging to the ÖNB. -
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE)
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Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
Provides large-scale, integrated and sustainable data services to the social sciences. -
German Sociological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie – DGS)
The reading lists of the different sections can be useful to get acquainted with the subject. -
European University Institute (EUI)
The institute is specialized in the area of social sciences and offers much secondary information on databases etc., which relate to the European Union. -
Europa
European Union Portal -
European Social Survey (ESS)
Academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted every two years across Europe since 2001. -
Eurostat
Provides statistics to the European Union that enable it to make comparisons between countries and regions. -
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Similar but on an international level. -
GENESIS-Online
Database of the Federal Office for Statistics -
GESIS Leibnitz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
One of Germany’s most significant infrastructure facilities for the social sciences (see publications). -
Social Sciences Open Access Repository (SSOAR)
Contains the holdings of the document server Social Sciences Open Access Repository with around 20,000 full texts from the area of social sciences. -
Ministry of Education, Children, and Youth, Luxembourg
Under Children and Youth / Publications -
Network Migration in Europe
Essential platform for students, scientists, and actors in the field of migration research and practice founded in 2001 -
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
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Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)
Mainly European university press offering access to e-books with focus on humanities and social sciences from a standard user interface. -
OpenEdition
Electronic resources portal for the Social sciences and humanities. -
SOWIPORT online
Gathers and links quality-tested information from national and international providers. There are currently 8 million references on publications and research projects from 18 databases available. -
SozBlog
Blog of the German Sociology Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie – DGS) -
Statistiques.lu
Blog of the German Sociology Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie – DGS) -
United Nations online data
Contains information and statistics on many subject areas, among which a Gender Data Portal. -
Berlin Social Science Center
Biggest social sciences research entity in Germany (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung – WZB)