Sociology 15: Sociological Research Methods (Polonijo)

1) Find an Article

Search in Google Scholar.  Though this is not comprehensive, it will often bring up specific article titles.  The UC-eLinks or Get it at UC option is found under MORE for most citations.

2) Find a Journal

Look for a journal title in the e-Journals tab.

• Type in the journal name.
• Determine if UC Merced subscribes to it for the year(s) you need.

3) Find a Journal, Article or Book

Search for the journal title or an article title in UC Library Search.

• On the results page, click the title for the item you need.
• Use the UC-eLinks or Get it at UC button to find/navigate to the full text.

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Examples: How would we go about finding these?

Sample Citation 1: 

Golash-Boza, T., Duenas, M. D., & Xiong, C. (2019). White supremacy, patriarchy, and global capitalism in migration studies. American Behavioral Scientist, 63(13), 1741-1759.

Sample Citation 2:

Alvarez, C. H. (2016). Militarization and water: a cross-national analysis of militarism and freshwater withdrawals. Environmental Sociology, 2(3), 298-305.

If you have the citation to an article, you can search using the article title in UC Library Search. Put quotations marks around the article title to get an exact match:

Step 1. Copy the title only from your citation.

For example, copy the highlighted portion of this ASA style citation:

Mora, G. Cristina, Reuben Perez, and Nicholas Vargas. 2022. “Who Identifies as ‘Latinx’? The Generational Politics of Ethnoracial Labels.” Social Forces 100(3):1170–94. doi: 10.1093/sf/soab011.

Step 2. Paste the title into UC Library Search

Tip: Add quotation marks around the title if it doesn't already have them.

Step 3. Get the Full text!