The abstracting and indexing focus of CSA Sociological Abstracts is the world wide literature pertaining to all topics related to sociology within the social and behavioral sciences. More specifically, abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers are indexed in a database of over 1,800 publications, which is serially classified. This includes citations for book reviews. The backfile has been updated to include the print version of Sociological Abstracts from its beginnings from 1952 to 1962. Links are provided between Sociological Abstracts and other social science databases within CSA illumina.
Subjects covered are culture, social structure, demography, human biology, economic development environmental issues, family life conditions, social welfare, health, medicine, and law. Other subjects across the sociological spectrum are also included such as development, differentiation, arts, business, education, substance abuse, addiction, and women's studies.
This database is updated monthly with approximately 30,000 records per year. The total size of the database exceeds 913,900 records, and is the print equivalent of Sociological Abstracts, ISSN : 0038-0202.
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