Research Starters-Sociology Database will be on trial access until 30 June 2010.

Database offers students a starting point for their research. By providing comprehensive summaries of sociology topics, it helps students grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for researching it in greater detail.

Research Starters-Sociology articles are broken down into twenty-six categories, each of which contains between four and thirty-five article topics. Culture, family & relationships, research methods, socialization, society and technology,etc are some of those categories. Most articles are around 3,000 words, making them more in-depth than the average text book or encyclopedia entry, yet short enough to be easily digestible. Research Starter-Sociology. Articles contains, abtract, keywords, overview, applications,viewpoints, issues, discourse, terms and concepts, bibliography ad suggested reading.