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Sociology Research Guide

Welcome!

Welcome to the research guide for Dr. Morales' Sociology 1 course. Use this page to guide your research on your cultural artifact.

Save this page: https://researchguides.elac.edu/Sociology/culturalartifact

Image: Andrés Monroy-Hernández from Cambridge, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Cultural Artifact Handout
This is an electronic handout given during our research session

Cultural Artifact Research Slides (PDF)

Step 1: Explore Your Topic

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Search for your culture or artifact to find encyclopedia articles and background information in this ebook database.

Follow these steps to search within the below publications:

Click on the link. If off-campus, login with your LACCD account.
Click on "Search within this publication"
Type in your culture, artifact, or related topic and click "Search"
From your results list, click on "PDF Full Text" to view the article.

Newsweek (Magazine articles)
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Time (Magazine articles)
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Los Angeles Times (News articles)
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Step 2: Become Experts on Your Topic

EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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Search across all EBSCO article databases.

ProQuest
Use all ProQuest databases to find a mix of local, national, and alt-press newspaper articles. You can also limit your searches to retrieve only peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles.
JSTOR
Scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences.

Step 3: Supplement Your Knowledge

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.