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Issues & Controversies
BEST BET FOR ARGUMENT PAPERS. Explore both sides.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Information and opinions on today’s hottest social issues.

DATABASES: For current or very specific information on a topic.

Academic Search Premier
BEST BET FOR GENERAL RESEARCH with peer-reviewed journals on every subject.
Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed scholarly articles covering a wide variety of subjects.

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
In the summer of 1971, Philip Zimbardo, Craig Haney, and Curtis Banks carried out a psychological experiment to test a simple question: What happens when you put good people in an evil place – does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph?
disLocation
In February 2002, families living in a Chicago public housing development were given notice that their home would be demolished in six months. DisLocation chronicles the lives of tenants in one building as they move through the six-month relocation process.

How to Read a Scientific Paper
Interesting, easy to understand overview from Purdue University Libraries. REQUIRES ADOBE FLASH
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
A visual representation from NCSU.

The Society Pages
The Society Pages is an online, multidisciplinary social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. The Society Pages’ mission is to bring measured social science to broader public visibility and influence.