Finding Reference Sources

Reference sources no longer get as much attention as they once did, with so much "ready reference" available online, but the sources listed below remain relevant as they are good starting points for research.  Need a brief biography of an eminent sociologist?  Need a definition of a sociological term?  Consult the list below.

Dictionaries

Abercrombie, Nicholas, Stephen Hill and Bryan S. Turner.  2000.  The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology.  4th ed.  London:  Penguin Books, 2000.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 17 .A231 2000

Brooker, Peter.  1999.  A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory.  London:  Oxford University Press.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 101 .B775 1999

Edgar, Andrew and Peter Sedgwick, eds.  2002.  Cultural Theory:  The Key Concepts.  New York:  Routledge.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 621.K49 2002

Johnson, Allan G.  2000.  The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology:  A User's Guide to Sociological Language.  2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 17 .J641 1995

Marshall, Gordon, ed. 1998. A Dictionary of Sociology.  2nd ed.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 17 .C66 1998

Payne, Michael, ed.  1996.  A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.  Oxford:  Blackwell Publishers.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 101 .D5271 1996

Encyclopedias

Borgatta, Edgar F. and Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, eds.  2000.  Encyclopedia of Sociology.  5 vols.  New York:  Macmillan Reference USA.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 425 .E5 2000 Quarto

Magill, Frank N., Hector L. Delgado and Alan Sica, eds.  1995.  International Encyclopedia of Sociology.  2 vols.  London:  Fitzroy Dearborn.
M-Level, GEN REF HM 17 .I53 1995

Smelser, Neil J. and Paul B. Baites, eds.  2001. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.  26 vols. Amsterdam:  Elsevier.
M-Level, GEN REF H 41 .I58 2001

The above is also available online at

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences  (All US JHU)