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Basic information about Sociology
This guide provides an overview of the library resources available for Sociology students.

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Course Reading
Code Course Name
SOC100Introduction to Sociology
SOC107Understanding Sociology
SOC108Introduction to Statistics
SOC204Culture in the Contemporary World
SOC205Sociological Theory I
SOC221Social Research Methods
SOC233Contemporary social isuues
SOC257Art and Society
SOC260Food and Society
SOC261Conceptualising Arts and Culture in Modernity
SOC307Entrepreneurship and Society
SOC308Culture, Heritage and Society
SOC313Sociology of Education
SOC315Arts and Culture in Greater China
SOC321Economic Sociology
SOC333Urban Sociology
SOC337Criminology
SOC339Sociology of Religion
SOC356Gender Relations
SOC357Migration and Mobility
SOC359Self, Emotion and Culture
SOC403Globalization and Inequality
SOC406Selected Topics: Social Innovation: A tool for social change
SOC410The Sociology of Organization
SOC411Impact of Social and Enterprise Innovation
SOC412Contemporary Consumer and the Changing Community
SOC413Digitized Media, Culture and Society
SOC414Heritage Studies: Critical and Innovative Dimensions
SOC415Film, Television and Society
SOC430Economic Reform and Social Transformation in Contemporary China
SOC470Service Learning
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Recommended Databases (Journal Articles)
EBSCOhost - Academic Search Ultimate
EBSCOhost - Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women's studies, zoology and more.

 

EBSCO: Sociology Source Ultimate
EBSCO: Sociology Source Ultimate provides over one thousand full-text journals for students studying aspects of social behaviour and interaction. Coverage of topics ranges from gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology.

ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated multi-disciplinary full-text database across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

 

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is Elsevier's premier platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. It advances research and scholarship with the world's leading database of peer-reviewed, full-text scientific, technical and health literature. There are 21M articles & book chapters, 800 open-access journals and 3.3M open-access articles on the platform. It contains a large collection of Social Sciences and Humanities journals and books, highlighting historical context, current developments, theories, applications, trends and more.

Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 500 journals. OUP hold a commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content, and with Oxford Academic you can research, discover, and explore the latest in scholarship from around the world. According to the 2022 Journal Citation Report from Clarivate, 47% of OUP journals are in the top quartile of their subject categories and eight are in the #1 spot. You can search across Oxford Academic’s growing body of three million journal articles to meet your research needs.

Gale Academic OneFile
Gale Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines such as Biology, Chemistry, Criminal justice, Economics, Environmental science, History, Marketing, Political science, Psychology.

Gale In Context: Global Issues
Gale In Context: Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issues and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library
The Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library covers over 1,000 scholarly journals content spans various areas of Humanities and Social Sciences:
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Behavioral Science Business, Management & Economics
  • Criminology & Law
  • Education
  • Media, Cultural & Communications Studies
  • Politics, International Relations & Area Studies
  • Public Health & Social Care
  • Sociology & Related Disciplines

Statista
Statista is one of the world's leading statistics portals offering statistics from over 22,500 sources as well as their own analytics on digital & consumer markets.

Recommended Databases (eBooks)
ProQuest Ebook Central
ProQuest Ebook Central provides a breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including university presses and other top publishers, covering the subjects of Arts, Business, Education, Health and Medicine, History and Political Science, Law, Literature and Language, Religion and Philosophy, Social Science, and Science and Technology.

 

EBSCOhost eBook Collection
EBSCOhost eBook Collection provides access to an extensive collection of ebook titles in various subjects. It includes a broad range of titles, in areas such as arts & architecture, business & economics, computer science, education, engineering & technology, fiction, history, literature & criticism, political science, religion and social sciences.

 

Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 50,000 books. OUP hold a commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content, and with Oxford Academic you can research, discover, and explore the latest in scholarship from around the world. You can search across Oxford Academic’s growing body of 600,000 book chapters, and five million images and multimedia to meet your research needs.

Alexander Street's Social Theory
Alexander Street's Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization.  Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jurgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.

Sage Knowledge – eBooks of Social Work
Sage Knowledge contains thousands of eBooks titles on the topics across the social sciences. These topics are included Counseling & Psychotherapy; health & Social Care; Media, Communication & Cultural Studies; Politics & international relations; Psychology; Sociology; Social Work, etc. Our library has subscribed 37 eBooks titles on the discipline of Social Work.

Wiley Digital Textbooks
Wiley Digital Textbooks published by Wiley, currently feature over 20,000 original academic textbooks, covering more than 30 disciplines, including business management, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, life and earth sciences, medical health, social sciences, hospitality management, and humanities.

Loan period: 3 days for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user


VitalSource (e-textbook platform)
VitalSource is the e-textbook platform which provides many different subjects of the e-textbooks. Users could borrow them via this platform. It supports mobile app in IOS and Android, users can read offline accordingly. Furthermore, users can make notes on their borrowed e-textbooks during the loan period.

Loan period: 1 day for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user


Airiti iRead eBooks 華藝電子書
華藝中文電子書平台收錄了不同出版社授權的數萬本華文電子書, 本館已選購部分電子書,每本電子書均可供數人同時全文閱讀,主題包括經典文學、語言學習、商業經營、政治法律、社會心理、文學小說、醫療保健、藝術設計、電腦資訊、工程數學、歷史、哲學等。

 

HyRead ebook
HyRead ebook 是一個台灣電子書平台,提供最新出版學術、專業、休閒及工具書各類書籍,包含人文社會、文學小說、語言學習、財經商管、科學科普、電腦資訊、宗教心靈、醫藥養生、藝術設計、休閒生活、親子童書等各領域的電子書。

Physical Books
  Gender : ideas, interactions, institutions
Publication Date : 2023
Call number : 305.3 WAD 2023
Location : English Book (4/F)
  身份認同與香港文化政策研究 = A study on identity and cultural policy in Hong Kong
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 540.9238 611 2022
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  給所有人的社會學史講義 : 跟隨大澤真幸一起建立當代必備的社會學素養
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 540 316 2021
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  街頭隱形人 : 人類學家臥底紐約清潔隊的田野故事 = Picking up : on the streets and behind the trucks with the sanitation workers of New York City
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 541.3 810 2021
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  Criminology in brief : understanding crime and criminal justice
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 364.973 HEI 2021
Location : English Book (4/F)
  質性研究 : 設計與計畫撰寫
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 501.2 502 2021
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  尋常的社會設計 : 一位任性社會學者的選物展 = The marriage of design and society : how humans, tools, and environments might be re-composed
Publication Date : 2020
Call number : 540 1511 2020
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  社會學的想像 : 從個人的煩惱連結到社會的公共議題,歡迎來到社會學的世界! = The sociological imagination
Publication Date : 2020
Call number : 540 614 2020
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  這就是符號學! : 探索日常用品。圖像。文本, 76個人人都能讀懂的符號學概念! = This means this, this means that
Publication Date : 2015
Call number : O 156 810 2015
Location : Chinese Oversized Book (2/F)
Chinese eBooks
  質性研究:理論與應用
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  多元文化主義:牛津非常短講. 006
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  社區營造實務
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  田野敲敲門:現地研究基本功
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  從鄉到城:一個中國縣城的社會轉型
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  萬能店員:我的便利、你的過勞, 超商的社會代價
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  給所有人的社會學史講義:跟隨大澤真幸一起建立當代必備的社會學素養
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  不用數字的研究:質性研究的思辯脈絡
Publication Date : 2020
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  鍛鍊思考力的社會學讀本:為什麼努力沒有用?戴上社會學的眼鏡, 幫你解決人生的疑難雜症
Publication Date : 2019
Access via HyRead
English eBooks
  Culture and Sustainability: Exploring Stability and Transformation with the Cultures Framework
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education: Now What?
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  Sociology in times of glocalization
Publication Date : 2023
Access via EBSCO [ebook]
  Digital Social Research
Publication Date : 2020
Access via Wiley Digital Textbooks [ebook]
  Sociology
Publication Date : 2022
Access via Wiley Digital Textbooks [ebook]
  Social Psychology
Publication Date : 2020
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]