3. COLLECTION
SCOPE (Specific)
3.0 Subject Name: Sociology
3.1 Library Selector for this Subject: Susan Gardner
3.2 Primary Academic Unit Served: Sociology
Department
3.2.1 Academic Liaison:
3.2.2
Degrees/Certificates Granted by Primary Academic
Unit: Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology; Master of Arts and Master of Science
in Sociology; Master of Marital and Family Therapy; Bachelor of Arts in
Sociology
3.3 Significant Relationship to USC
Strategic Plan/Critical Pathways: 1.:Undergraduate education—provide a
distinctive undergraduate experience built on excellent liberal arts (the term
includes the humanities, the natural sciences and the social sciences), and 2.:
Interdisciplinary research and education—emphasize programs that span the
spectrum from basic to applied research
and programs with a high degree of societal relevance.
3.4
Treatment of Subject: The Library collects, manages,
and provides access to the collection of literature in the sociological disciplines
to support the research and curricular programs of the Sociology Department.
The Sociology department offers bachelor, master, and doctorate degrees. Much
of the collection activity for the advanced degree programs is at the research
level when possible. In general, the collection activity for the undergraduate
programs is at the research/study level. Areas of concentration and collection
include: crime, criminal justice, and correction; culture, conversation
analysis, and communication; deviance and social control; diversity; economy,
society, and demography; evaluation research; gay, lesbian, and bisexuality;
group analysis; humanistic sociology; labor markets; life course,
socialization, and interpersonal relations; marriage and the family; mass communication
and public opinion; media studies; methodologies, statistical analysis, and
computer application; modernization and community development; political
sociology; social and personal change; social inequities and gender roles;
social movements; social organization and change; stratification, inequality, and ethnicity; social psychology;
sociological theory; sociology of education, law, religion and work; urban
sociology; and welfare. Additional interdisciplinary topics, in collaboration
with faculty from other departments, include human development; language,
interaction, and social organization; and women's studies.
3.5
Collection Locations:
Monographic and serial materials are housed in Doheny,
VKC Library, and in remote storage.
3.6
Geographical Coverage: Coverage is worldwide, with an
emphasis on the
3.7
Chronological Coverage: The library collects both current and
historical materials. Primary and secondary historical resources are collected
by and about classical theorists, largely beginning in the 19th
century. Social histories are largely collected in support of programs in the
History Department.
3.8
Format Coverage: Scholarly monographs, government
documents, serials, collections of essays, conference proceedings, videos, and
electronic resources are extensively collected.
3.9
Language Coverage: Primarily English language
publications with some European languages, as appropriate.
3.10
Specialized Means of Acquisition: n/a
3.11
Special Collections Aspects: An urban planning documents special
collection is housed in VKC library.
3.12
Electronic Resources Aspects: USC Library system
provides access to a wide variety of electronic resources in the field of
sociology including Sociological Abstracts, eHRAF
Collection of Ethnography, Sage Family Studies Abstracts, PsycINFO,
LEXIS-NEXIS, PROQUEST DIRECT, FIRST SEARCH, and EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP.
3.12
Out of Scope/NOT Collected or Retained: This policy
does not include acquisition of materials on the sociology of the arts,
military sociology, sociology of sports, or sociology of science. Pamphlets, newsletters, article reprints,
textbooks, and non-USC dissertations are also not generally collected. Popular
and/or journalistic monographs about social issues are selectively collected.
The USC Database Clearinghouse in University Computing Services acquires and
provides access to statistical data sets used for primary research by faculty
and graduate students.
3.13
Collecting Levels (Detail):
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HM1-299 |
sociology general and theoretical |
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HN3-980 |
social history, conditions and reform |
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HN8-19 |
history, including social reform |
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HQ12-449 |
sexual life |
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HQ450-471 |
erotica |
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HQ503-1064 |
the family.
marriage. home |
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HQ1090 |
men |
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HQ1101-1115 |
women, feminism & women's studies |
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HS1-3369 |
societies: secret, benevolent |
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HT101-384 |
urban
sociology. cities and towns |
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HT390-395 |
regional planning |
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HT401-485 |
rural sociology |
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HT601-1445 |
social classes |
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HT1501-1595 |
races |
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HV40-696 |
charities |
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HV697-4959 |
protection, assistance, and relief |
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HV5001-5720 |
alcoholism,
intemperance. temperance reform |
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HV65725-5770 |
tobacco habit |
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HV5800-5840 |
drug habits.
drug abuse |
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HV6001-7220.5 |
criminology |
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HV7231-9920.5 |
penology |
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HV7551-8280.7 |
police. detectives. constabulary |
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HV8301-9025 |
prisons. penitentiaries. punishment and reform |
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HV9051-9230.7 |
juvenile
offender. juvenile delinquency, reform schools |
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HV9261-9430.7 |
reformation and reclamation of adult prisoners |
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HV9441-9920.5 |
by region or country |
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HX1-970.7 |
socialism, communism, anarchism |
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