A Middlesex University resource by Andrew Roberts

Social Science Subject Index

Social Science History for Budding Theorists
Time line for the history of science and social science
Crimtim: A criminology and deviancy theory history timeline
Science and society booklist
Finding your own resources
Writing a Literature Review
Copac and other library catalogues

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Africa and African diaspora

Community and State

Yolamu Barongo 1983 Political Science in Africa

Sam Egite Oyovbaire "The Tyranny of Borrowed Paradigms" (Nigeria)

Christopher Clapham Africa and the International System

Jeffrey Herbst and Richard Joseph "Responding to State Failure in Africa"

Gender and family

"The family in negro Africa" by Paul and Lara Bohannan" in Anshen 1959

Sisterhood is Global

Miriam C. Menkiti 2005 "Domestic violence against women - A story of community prevention strategies from two states in Nigeria: Enugu and Ondo" Presentation to the World Conference on Prevention of Family Violence 2005

Diaspora: "Black women, sexism and racism" by Gemma Tang Nain in Jackson and Scott "many of the attitudes of black men to black women were formed in Africa" (p.118) Lauretta Ngcobo's opinion.

Religion

John Samuel Mbiti African Religions and Philosophy


Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Barkley, Russell A.; Murphy. Kevin R and Fischer, Mariellen 2007 ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says Guilford Press

Delfos, Martine F. 2004 Children and behavioural problems : anxiety, aggression, depression and ADHD, a biopsychological model with guidelines for diagnostics and treatment London : Jessica Kingsley

Goldstein, Sam, 2001-2003 ADHD and Implications for the Criminal Justice System US Government Federal Bureau of Investigation Publications. Available at http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=682

Timimi, Sami and Taylor, Eric, 2004 "ADHD is best understood as a cultural construct." [A debate, for and against] British Journal of Psychiatry, 184, 8-9, available online at http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/184/1/8


BBC 24.2.2003: BBC News article "Clinic examines 'crime diet' link"


Arson
Hershel Prins
Fire-raising its Motivation and Management.


Autism


Behaviourism


Biological bases of behaviour

See David Pilgrim Key Concepts in Mental Health
"Causes and Constructs - biological, psychological and social explanations"

See Roger Hopkins Burke An Introduction to Criminological Theory on Biological positivism - Socio-biological theories -

See Donald Shoemaker Theories of Delinquency on Biological and biosocial explanations


Biographical and narrative approaches

Wikipedia links: Autoethnography - Developmental psychology Narrative_inquiry -

1961 The concept of moral careers
Erving Goffman "The Moral Career of the Mental Patient"
Rom Harré

Criminal career: a type of moral career?

1972 Peter and Briditte Berger Sociology: A Biographical Approach

1996 Richard Jenkins Social identity

2000 Alheit, Peter & Dausien, Bettina "'Biographicity' as a basic resource of lifelong learning", in: Peter Alheit (editor) Lifelong Learning inside and outside schools, Roskilde: Roskilde University, University of Bremen and University of Leeds, pp. 400-422.

2000 Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf (Editors) The turn to biographical methods in social science: comparative issues and examples. London: Routledge.

2003 FQS: Forum: Qualitative Social Research - Volume 4, No 3 (2003) "Doing Biographical Research" Edited by Gerhard Riemann. Including Fritz Schütze's "Hülya's Migration to Germany as Self-Sacrifice Undergone and Suffered in Love for Her Parents, and Her Later Biographical Individualisation. Biographical Problems and Biographical Work of Marginalisation and Individualisation of a Young Turkish Woman in Germany". http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-03/3-03schuetze-e.htm

2004 Apitzsch, Ursula, Bornat, J./ Chamberlayne, Prue (editors.) Biographical analysis and professional practice. The Policy Press: Bristol.

2010 Elizabeth Ettore "An autoethnography of talking with women drug users: the need for researchers' reflexivity as sensitising the 'I'"

narrative
2010 Bradley Lewis "Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Encounters"

2011 Barbara Taylor "The Demise of the Asylum in Late Twentieth- century Britain: A Personal History"


Biographies


Mary Lamb
Mary and Charles Lamb A page of mental and geographical connections
Hitcock, S. T. 2005 Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and murder in literary London
Watson, K. 2004 The Devil Kissed Her. The Story of Mary Lamb


Bipolar


Body

Price, J. and Shildrick, M. 1999 Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader


City
Geddes, P. 1904 City Development: A study of parks, gardens and culture institutes:
The City (1925) by Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Roderick D. McKenzie and Louis Wirth.
See Vincenzo Ruggiero


Childhood

See Family and Education

The history of education and childhood archived website

Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development

Jean Piaget

1960/1962 Philippe Ariès Centuries of Childhood

Julian Stanley

Irving E. Sigel

2004 Dominic Wyse (Editor) Childhood Studies: An introduction


Child abuse
See paedophilia

Frank Pearce 1977

Wilson and Cox 1983 The Child-lovers: A study of paedophiles in society

Philip Jenkins 1998 Moral Panic: Changing concepts of the child molester in modern America

Corby, B. 2000 Child Abuse: Towards a Knowledge Base. Open University, McGraw Hill Education, Maidenhead

Itzin, C. 2000 Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice: A Reader edited by Catherine Itzin. Routledge. London

Anne Hendershott 2002 The Politics of Deviance

Calder, M. C. 2004 Child Sexual Abuse and the Internet: Tackling the New Frontier edited by Martin C. Calder. Lyme Regis: Russell House,

Socarides and Loeb 2004 The mind of the paedophile: psychoanalytic perspectives

Elena Martellozzo 2012 Online Child Sexual Abuse. Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World


Collective Behaviour - Crowd Behaviour

Ryan T. Cragun 2008/2010 Introduction to Sociology Chapter on Collective Behaviour.


Conflict

See under Collective behaviour - Crime - Movement


Community therapy - Sociotherapy - Therapeutic communities

Maxwell Jones 1952 Social Psychiatry: A Study of Therapeutic Communities

Richard Crocket - 1957 onwards

Marshall Edelson 1970 Sociotherapy and psychotherapy


Cooperation


Crime See also punishment
See
Crime and power - Globalisation - Media and Crime - Mental Illness and Crime - Women and Crime - Youth Crime - Youth Culture and Crime -


Crime and punishment history

Crime time line

Michel Foucault time line

Syllabus and reading list on Institute of Economic Affairs website

John Briggs 1996 Crime and Punishment in England: An introductory history


Criminal Justice
Wikipedia link - Criminal justice

Text books:
Davies, Croall and Tyrer
Sanders and Young


Criminology
Maguire, Morgan, and Reiner
The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

Text books:
Hale, Hayward, Wahldin and Wincup


Crime and power
Pearce, F. 1976 Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, crime and deviance


Criminological theories

Roger Hopkins Burke An Introduction to Criminological Theory

Criminological theories historical development

Taylor, Walton, and Young 1973 The New Criminology. For a Social Theory of Deviance

Stephen Pfohl 1985/1994 Images of Deviance and Social Control: A sociological history


Depression
Carl Walker Depression and Globalization


Education

See Childhood

Durkheim, 1925 Moral Education. A study in the Theory and Application of the Sociology of Education

Relevant works of Jean Piaget, including 1955 The Child's Construction of Reality and 1962 Play, dreams and imitation in childhood

Relevant works of Talcott Parsons including "The School Class as a Social System: Some of its Functions in American Society" (1957).

Relevant work of Robert Merton, including (1957) definition of functions and dysfunctions - American culture - and Types of individual adaptation

Julian C. Stanley (editor) Compensatory education for children, ages 2-8 [1972/1973]

Sigel and others.:"Psycho-educational intervention beginning at age two" etc, in the above. pages 25-62 and other works.

Integrated early childhood development services in the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development has articles on Head Start and Sure Start.


Ethnicity

Amin, A. 2002 "Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Living with Diversity" Environment and Planning A, Volume 34, pages 959-980


Europe

See Russian family


Experts by experience - Situated knowledge - Standpoint theory - Survivor research

Sandra Harding Whose science? Whose knowledge? Thinking from women's lives

This is Survivor Research
See work of Alison Faulkner - Diana Rose


Family

1680 Filmer - 1884 Engels - 1941 George Peter Murdock (nuclear) - 1945 Burgess and Locke - 1948 Skinner - 1949 Anshen - 1951 Bowlby - 1955 Parsons and Bales - 1958 Nye - 1960 Aries - 1962 Fletcher - 1964 Rose Laub Coser - 1964 Laing and Esterson - 1971 Jessie Bernard (marriage) - 1972 Cooper - 1982 Geismar and Wood - 1990s Dench -

See relevant chapter/s of general textbooks. Some people find the Family section of Haralambos particularly helpful as an introduction.

Allan Graham 1999 (Editor) The Sociology of the Family: A Reader

David Cheal 2002 Sociology of Family Life. (An introductory text)

Val Dunn-Toroosian 2003 "The Family" (a book chapter)


Family - Cross Cultural

Africa

Russia

"The family in Russia" by Maurice Hindus in Anshen 1949 and "The Russian family: Old style and new" by Philip E. Mosely in Anshen 1959

Families before and after Perestroika: Russian and U.S. perspectives edited by James W. Maddock 1994


Family - Extended

See Institute of Community Studies

Relevant books by, or edited by Geoff Dench


Family - History

1660-

Elizabeth A. Foyster's Marital violence : an English family history, 1660-1857

1830-

Davidoff L, Doolittle M, Fink J and Holden K (1999) The family story: Blood, contract and intimacy, 1830-1960.


Family - Nuclear

1972 Michael Gordon The Nuclear Family in Crisis: The search for an alternative


Family - Single Parent or Lone Parent

1918 onwards See the history of The National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child and for the Widowed or Deserted Mother in Need

1969 The One-parent Family: Perspectives and annotated bibliography Edited by B. Schlesinger; Editorial consultant, Florence Strakhovsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

1971 Crellin, Pringle and West Born Illegitimate: Social and educational implications

1991 Lone Parent Families in the UK by Jonathan Bradshaw and Jane Millar. Department of Social Security. Research reports; 6.

1992 Families without Fatherhood by Norman Dennis and George Erdos. Third edition 2000

1996 Elizabeth Silva Editor Good Enough Mothering?: Feminist perspectives on lone mothering

1997 Single Mothers in an International Context: Mothers or workers? edited by Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards.

1998 BBC News 21.10.1998 Thatcher stirs up single parents

The Guardian, 21.10.1998, p.1: "Thatcher prescribes religion for single mothers"

2000

"The myths of single mothers, as told by J K Rowling" By Jojo Moyes, Arts and Media Correspondent The Independent Thursday 5.10.2000

2001

Lone Stars: Portrayal of single mothers on screen The Guardian 22.2.2001

2008

21.3.2008 First post in Bella DePaulo's "Living Single The truth about singles in our society" blog

2010

Steve Doughty Mail Online: "Half of single mothers never live with partner after being enticed by benefits lifestyle choice" 26.2.2010 - "Three generations all of them single mothers: Growth of extended ' man free' families who rely on state handout" 4.3.2010 - "Single mother Britain: U.K. has most lone parents of any major European nation" 1.4.2011 -

"Children in single parent families 'worse behaved" By Graeme Paton, Education Editor The Telegraph 15.10.2010 [Based on 9-10 year olds from the Millenium Cohort]

2011 Jennifer Ajandi "Single Mothers by Choice: Disrupting dominant discourses of the family through social justice alternatives"

2011 Kathy. L. Hill and Sam Houston. "Single Mothers how are they doing?" Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications & Conflict volume 15, issue 1, 2011, pages 1-10. A USA review of literature. Search the web and you will probably find a copy. Or see the 2010 Conference Proceedings


Family - Statistics

See United Kingdom 2001 figures for different type of family

Topic guide to: Families, Children and Young People at the publications hub of the Office for National Statistics.


Family - Traditional

See History and Nuclear

Robert Filmer

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -also see Engels on gender

William Morris - Read about Home and family - including Forest Children

May be able to use Burgess and Locke 1945 The Family

Family and Kinship in East London 1957 - and 2006 update?

Work of Ronald Fletcher? 1960s and 1980s


Family - Violence
Domestic violence
See also history and child abuse
See Africa

For a possible theoretical structure for patriarchal violence see the 17th century works of Robert Filmer. For the case for controlling patriarchal violence see the 19th century works of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, especially their 1848 paper and Mill's 1869 book.

Rebecca and Russell Dobash 1979 1992

1979: "Medicine and patriarchal violence: the social construction of a "private" event" by Stark E, Flitcraft A, Frazier W. International Journal of Health Services 1979; 9 (3): pp 461-493. Abstract

1983: Carol Herbert "Wife Battering"

Hester, Kelly and Radford 1996 (Editors) Women, Violence and Male Power

Home truths about domestic violence 2000

Gender, violence and the social order Jayne Mooney 2000

World Conference on Prevention of Family Violence 2005

Encyclopedia of domestic violence 2007


Feminist perspectives

Abbot P and Wallace C and Tyler .M.(2005) 3rd edition. An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives Routledge. London


Gender

See Family - Africa
See relevant chapter/s of general textbooks

Rousseau (Emile) - Olympe de Gouges - Wollstonecraft - Thompson and Wheeler - Mill and Taylor - Mill - Mill and Freud - De Beauvoir - Juliet Mitchell - Judith Butler

Sisterhood is Global 1984 edited by Robin Morgan

Jackson and Scott 2002 Gender: A Sociological Reader

Catherine Hakim 1979 Occupational Segregation...


Gendered Language - Culture

Dale Spender 1980 Man Made Language and later writings


Globalisation

See relevant chapter/s of general textbooks

Reading list on Institute of Economic Affairs website

Globalisation - Crime
"Contemporary landscapes of crime, order, and control: governance, risk, and globalisation" by Ian Loader and Richard Sparks in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology
"Crime, globalisation and the risk society" in Roger Hopkins Burke An Introduction to Criminological Theory


History

Wikipedia links to history - historical sociology

Dennis Smith 1991 The Rise of Historical Sociology

"Historical Sociology" by John Mandalios and "Sociology of Time and Space" by John Urry in The Blackwell Companion To Social Theory

History as Research Method


Social Science History

Social Science History timeline

Wikipedia links to history of: science - social science - language - mathematics - statistics - geography - history - economic thought - psychology - anthropology - sociology - sociology in medieval Islam -

Roll, E. 1938 A History of Economic Thought
O'Neil, W.P. 1968 The Beginnings of Modern Psychology
Abrams, P. 1968 The Origins of British Sociology: 1834-1914
Fletcher, R. 1971 The Making of Sociology. A Study of Sociological Theory.
Taylor, Walton and Young 1973 The New Criminology
Fancher, R.E. 1979 Pioneers of Psychology
Swingewood, A. 1984 A Short History of Sociological Thought
Evans, D. 1986 on British sociology 1920-1955
Coole, D.H. 1988 Women in Political Theory
Tierney, J. 1996 Criminology: Theory and context
Jennifer Platt 1996 onwards on "Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960" - International Sociological Association 1948-1997 - British Sociological Association
Schuerkens, F.U. 1996 "The congresses of the International Institute of Sociology from 1894 to 1930 and the internationalization of sociology"
Roberts, A. 1997 Social Science History. Six essays for budding theorists
Sharrock, Hughes and Martin 2003 Understanding Modern Sociology
Halsey A. H. 2004 A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature, and Society
Rocquin, B. 2006 on British sociology 1911-1938
Staum, M. 2007 "'Race' and gender in non-Durkheimian French sociology, 1893-1914"
McLennan, G. 2011 Story of Sociology



Human Trafficking
Wikipedia link - Human trafficking

"An Introduction to Human Trafficking: Vulnerability, Impact, and Action," United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, January 2008 available at http://www.ungift.org/docs/ungift/pdf/knowledge/background_paper.pdf

Andrea Parrot on sexual enslavement and related subjects.

Child Trafficking

Child Trafficking Research Hub: http://www.childtrafficking.org/home.html

Child trafficking in West Africa : policy responses UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa. April 2002. 30 pages. Available at http://www.unicef- icdc.org/publications/pdf/insight7.pdf


Isolation and Control Units and Secure Units
See mental hospitals and prisons
Wikipedia links: solitary confinement - Supermax

isolation or solitary confinement
Prison history: See separate system
Cohen and Taylor 1972 Psychological survival: the experience of long-term imprisonment
Works by Sharon Shalev

Secure Units for children Teresa O'Neill, 2001: Children in secure accommodation
Millham, Bullock, Hosie, 1978 Locking up children : secure provision within the child-care system
Harris and Timms 1993 Secure accommodation in child care


Media
Theoretical background: critical theory - structuralism - Wikipedia audience reception. Also see global village and Globalisation

Marshall McLuhan 1960 1964

Do-It-Yourself Media Sociology. Part Four of the The Manufacture of News (below)
Cohen, S. and Young, Jock 1973 (Editors) The Manufacture of News. Social problems, deviance and the mass media

Young, J. 1.2003 Constructing the Paradigm of Violence: Mass Media, Violence and Youth

"The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" in Adorno and Horkheimer Dialectic of Enlightenment

Stuart Hall 1980 (Editor): Culture, Media, Language

Brian Longhurst 2008 Introducing Cultural Studies


Media and Crime


Mental health - Mental illness - Mental disorder

Mental Health History timeline
Mental Health History words
Agnes Miles The Mentally Ill in Contemporary Society. A Sociological Interpretation.
Rogers and Pilgrim A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
David Pilgrim Key Concepts in Mental Health
The Fundamental Facts: The latest facts and figures on mental health 2007



Mental hospitals - Asylums

Susan Piddock 2007 A Space of Their Own

Mental hospitals and/or prisons

Michael Cavadino 1997 "A Vindication of the Rights of Psychiatric Patients"

Sarah Coutts 2011 "Care or Custody: Where should mentally disordered offenders be placed?"


Mental illness and crime
See Mental health - Criminological theories - Psychopaths - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Jill Peay "Mentally disordered offenders, mental health, and crime" 2002. and Mental Health and Crime 2011.

Part two of Roger Hopkins Burke An Introduction to Criminological Theory - "The predestined actor model of crime and criminal behaviour", especially the sections on biological and psychological positivism, could be useful for relating to criminological theory.

"Psychiatry and legal control", chapter 10 of Rogers and Pilgrim A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

Webb and Harris (Editors) 1999: Mentally Disordered Offenders: Managing people nobody owns

Mental Illness and crime history
See
Mental Health and Crime

1968 Nigel Walker Crime and Insanity in England. volume one: The Historical Perspective

1973 Peter Clyne Guilty but Insane : Anglo-American attitudes to insanity and criminal guilt

2006 Svein Atle Skalevag "The matter of forensic psychiatry: a historical enquiry"

Mental illness and crime cases
Edward Arnold (1724)
Mary Lamb (1796)
John Hadfield (1800)
John Bellingham (1811)
Daniel McNaughton (1843)
Beth Wood (1919) (Infanticide)
Charles Manson (1971)
Janet Cresswell (1976)
Christopher Clunis (1992)
Gary McKinnon (2002)
Peter Bryan (2009)
Satpal Kaur- Singh (2010)


Migration

Macionis and Plummer Chapter 11 Racism, Ethnicities and Migration. Including pluralism - assimilation - and segregation, as well as migration.

Castles and Miller 1993/2008 The Age of Migration

Thomas Sowell 1996 Migrations and Cultures a World View New York, Basic Books

Cultural Diversity

Susanne Wessendorf


Migration and diversity areas and countries

Aptekar, S. 2009 "Contexts of exit in the migration of Russian speakers from the Baltic countries to Ireland". Ethnicities. 9 (4), ppp 507- 526.

Jackson D. 2011 "Europe and the Migrant Experience: Transforming Integration" Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, 28, (1), pp. 14-28.

Kershen, A. J. (editor) 1997 London the Promised Land? The Migrant Experience in a Capital City Aldershot: Avebury

Violetta Parutis 2006 Construction of home by Polish and Lithuanian migrants in the UK


Kathy Burrell and Panikos Panayi 2006 (Editors) Histories and Memories: Migrants and their history in Britain

Inge Weber-Newth 2006 "Narratives of Settlement: East Europeans in Post-War Britain" in Burrell and Panayi pages 75-95




Movement

Crossley, N. 2002 Making Sense of Social Movements

Ruggiero and Montagna (Editors) Social Movements; A Reader


News
News Search Engines


Newspaper cuttings
When working on projects such as dissertations, students often collect newspaper cuttings. Consider using these in some kind of
media analysis, using a news search engine to make a more systematic collection of cuttings.


Normality and deviance


Performance Management

Wikipedia link: Performance management


Personality Disorder

Wikipedia link: Personality disorder

David Pilgrim Key Concepts in Mental Health


Prison

Prison has not always been a punishment - See history

See Bentham on panopticon - Goffman on total institutions and Foucault on discipline, observation and punishment.
Also see isolation - women and prison

Norman Johnston 2009 "Evolving Function: Early Use of Imprisonment as Punishment"

Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna (editors) 2005 The Effects of Imprisonment


Psychological bases of behaviour

See David Pilgrim Key Concepts in Mental Health
"Causes and Constructs - biological, psychological and social explanations"

See Roger Hopkins Burke An Introduction to Criminological Theory on Psychological positivism -

See Donald Shoemaker Theories of Delinquency on Psychological theories


Psychopaths
"Antisocial
personality disorder appears to be a relatively recent term that is interchangeable with that of psychopath" (Roger Hopkins Burke 2009, p.100)
See definitions
See Lombroso
Jill Peay "Mentally disordered offenders, mental health, and crime".


Punishment

Garland. D. 1990, Punishment and Modern Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


Rape

Joanna Bourke 2007 Rape: A history from 1860 to the present


Recession
Durkheim's book
Suicide. A Study in Sociology has theories about the social effects of economic recessions. Look at the extracts
Ernest Mandel, 1977/1978 The Second Slump: A Marxist analysis of recession in the seventies
You may also like to look at Leonard Fagin's Unemployment and health in families : case studies based on family interviews, a pilot study DHSS 1981 and The Forsaken Families : the effects of unemployment on family life Penguin, 1984.


Refugees and asylum seekers
You may want to consider in relation to
Migration - Globalisation - Media images

Bloch, A. Levy, C. 1999 Refugees, Citizenship and Social Policy in Europe, Macmillan Press, London

Refugee Council website includes a glossary
The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK includes material on research methods.


Religion

See BBC Religions - Religion and religious history weblinks

Christianity

Islam

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood Teach Yourself Islam

Wikipedia links: Quaran

Sacred texts of Islam

Shariah law (See Islam)

BBC Sharia http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/sharia_1.shtml

Wikipedia links: Sharia

Sharia debates in Africa

Noah Feldman - 16.3.2008 - Why Shariah? The New York Times Magazine

Islam: Governing Under Sharia by Toni Johnson and Lauren Vriens at the (USA) Council on Foreign Relations.

An Introduction to Islamic Criminal Justice 2008

Approaches to Teaching and Learning of Islamic Law


Research and writing dissertations

The ABC Study Guide by Andrew Roberts, Middlesex University.

Ethical principals

What is a dissertation?

Empirical (primary) research and secondary (library based) research

Planning and framing issues [Including Research Proposal]

Writing a report, dissertation or thesis .

Parts of a report or dissertation

Abstract and/or introduction Introductions are important

Methodology

Literature searches.

Literature review

Referencing

The simple way to reference the ABC Study Guide

In the bibliography:

Roberts, A. ABC - The ABC Study Guide. University education in plain English alphabetically indexed.

References in the text to (Roberts, A. ABC/concept indexed)

for example (Roberts, A. ABC/Research)

Companion for undergraduate dissertations

Earl R. Babbie: The practice of social research

Judith Bell: Doing your Research Project.

Alan Bryman Social Research Methods.

John Creswell: Research design : qualitative, quantitative, [and mixed method] approaches

Martyn Denscombe: The Good Research Guide for small-scale social research

Nigel Gilbert Researching Social Life

Chris Hart Doing a Literature Review

Lee and Stanko Researching Violence

Peter Levin Excellent Dissertations.

Tim May Social Research: Issues, Methods and Practice.

Anne Thomson Critical Reasoning.

Mark Walsh Research Made Real: A guide for students

Qualitative Research

Wikipedia: Qualitative Research

British Library Topical Bibliography on Qualitative Research

Qualitative Research Methods: A Data Collector's Field Guide

See Alan Bryman - Martyn Denscombe

Quantitative Research

Wikipedia: Quantitative Research - Statistical Survey

British Library Topical Bibliography on Quantitative Research

See Alan Bryman on quantitative research - Martyn Denscombe -

SRU55 "R and Quantitative Data Analysis by Paul Webb, Spring 2009 - [R is a free statistics program]

Questionnaires

Zoltan Dörnyei 2003 Questionnaires in second language research: construction, administration, and processing


Riots

England August 2011

Riots Communities and Victims Panel


Sex


Sexual Orientation

Mikey Buridge and J. Walters 1981 (editors) Breaking the Silence: Gay teenagers speak for themselves London: Joint Council of Gay Teenagers.

Gilbert Herdt 1989 (editor) Gay and Lesbian Youth London, Haworth press.

Ken Plummer 1992 (editor) Modern Homosexualities London. Routledge.


Social bases of behaviour

See David Pilgrim Key Concepts in Mental Health
"Causes and Constructs - " biological, psychological and social explanations"

See Roger Hopkins Burke An Introduction to Criminological Theory on Sociological positivism - Socio-biological theories - and also the non-positivist approaches.

See Donald Shoemaker Theories of Delinquency on social disorganisation and anomie - Lower-class-based theories of delinquency - Interpersonal and situational explanations - Control theories - Labelling theory - The radical theory of delinquency.


Social exclusion

Brian Barry Social Exclusion, Social Isolation and the Distribution of Income


Stereotyping

Judith Whyte 1983 Beyond the Wendy House, Sex role stereotyping in primary schools York: Longman for the Schools Council. 70 pages

Barrie Gunter 1986 Television and sex role stereotyping Television research monograph. London: John Libbey. 89 pages

Penelope J. Oakes, S. Alexander Haslam, and John C. Turner. 1994. Stereotyping and social reality Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, xiv and 255 pages [Social Psychology]

C. Neil Macrae, Charles Stangor and Miles Hewstone. 1996 (Editors) Stereotypes and stereotyping New York; London: Guilford Press, x and 462 pages. [Psychology]

Michael Pickering 2001 Stereotyping: The politics of representation Basingstoke: Palgrave, xvii and 246 pages

Todd D. Nelson 2002/2004 (Editor) Ageism: Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: MIT xvi and 372 pages


Stigma


Suicide and self-directed violence

1841 See suicide statistics

1879/1881 Enrico Morselli Suicide. An Essay On Comparative Moral Statistics.

1897 Durkheim's Suicide (France)

1930 Maurice Halbwachs Les Causes de Suicide (France)

1965 Donald West Murder followed by suicide : an enquiry carried out for the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge (UK)

1967 Douglas, J. 1967 The Social Meanings of Suicide.(USA)

1975 Whitney Pope "Concepts and explanatory structure in Durkheim's theory of suicide"

1982 Taylor, S. 1982 Durkheim and the Study of Suicide

1987 Frank Pearce "A Reworking of Durkheim's Suicide" Economy and Society (UK)

1998 Thorlindsson and Bjarnason "Modelling Durkheim on the micro level: A study of youth suicidality."

2000 Maris Berman and Silverman Comprehensive Textbook of Suicidology (USA)

2000 Pickering and Walford (Editors) Durkheim's Suicide: a century of research and debate

2006 Mark M. Leach Cultural Diversity and Suicide: Ethnic, religious, gender, and sexual (USA)

2010 Webb, D. 2010 Thinking about Suicide: Contemplating and comprehending the urge to die (Australia)

2011 Self-directed Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and Recommended Data Elements


Textbooks

Beginners textbooks in sociology provide some kind of overview of the content of the sociology of their time. They can be useful in finding theoretical contexts for research and suggesting authors that you should read. Follow the links for contents lists.

Haralambos and others Sociology: Themes and Perspectives
James Fulcher and John Scott Sociology
Anthony Giddens Sociology
John J. Macionis and Ken Plummer Sociology - A Global Introduction


Women - Crime

Women victims

See Family-Violence - Rape

Women criminals

Lombroso and Ferrero 1893 Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman

Adler and Adler 1975 Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal

Carole Smart 1978 Women, Crime and Criminology : A Feminist Critique

Frances Heidensohn

Loraine Gelsthorp "Feminism and criminology"

Meda Chesney-Lind, M. 1997 The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime

Ann Lloyd 1995 Doubly Deviant, Doubly Damned: Society's treatment of violent women

Lucia Zedner

Women - Prison

Rose Giallombardo

Ruth Wajsblum 1981 Women in Prison [booklet]
Sear and Player 1986 Women in the Penal System [20 page briefing]

Pat Carlen

Marie-Andrée Bertrand 1998 Prisons pour Femmes

A chapter in Ann Lloyd 1995 Doubly Deviant, Doubly Damned

Paul Rock (1996) on the new Holloway

HM Inspectorate of Prisons 1997 onwards

The Corston Report 2007 and government responses

Lucia Zedner


Women - History
You could develop the idea of
Charles Fourier that "social progress and changing eras are linked to increases in women's freedom" by looking at John Stuart Mill's ideas about the relation between women's freedom and the progress of civilisation - See the history chart.


Youth

Youth Crime

1898 Hooligans
1964 Mods and Rockers
1972: mugging and moral panic theory

British Library Topical Bibliography on Youth gangs, knife and gun crime

Tim Newburn "Young people, crime, and youth justice" in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology

David J. Smith "Crime and the life course" in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology

Geoffrey Pearson 1983 Hooligan: A history of respectable fears

Donald Shoemaker 1984/2010 Theories of Delinquency: An examination of explanations of delinquent behaviour [See biological - psychological and social explanations.

John Muncie 1999 Youth and Crime

William H. Quinn 2004 Family Solutions for Youth at Risk

Goldson and Muncie 2006 (Editors) Youth Crime and Justice

Monica Barry 2006 Youth Offending in Transition

Jessie Feinstein and Nia Imani Kuumba 2006 Working with Gangs and Young People: A toolkit for resolving group conflict

McAuley, R, 2007 Out of sight: Crime, Youth and Exclusion in Modern Britain. USA and Canada: William Publishing.

John Pitts 2007 and 2008 Reluctant Gangsters

Hopkins Burke 2008 Young People, Crime and Justice.

Frank van Gemert, Dana Peterson and Inger-Lise Lien 2008 (Editors) Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity Cullompton: Willan, xviii and 286 pages

Claire E. Alexander 2008 (Re)thinking 'gangs'


Youth Culture - Crime
Wayne, M., et al: 2008 "Television News and the Symbolic Criminalisation of Young People" by Mike Wayne, Lesley Henderson, Craig Murray, and Julian Petley, in Journalism Studies Vol.9, no.1., pages 75 - 90


Youth justice - Youth corrections

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