Recommended Multi-Subject Databases
These databases, and others you might be interested in searching, can be found on the Find Articles Guide.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Includes both scholarly and popular sources, updated daily.
Recommended Discipline-Specific Databases
These databases, and others you might be interested in searching, can be found on the Find Articles Guide.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window(ProQuest) - Identifies articles, conference papers, books, and dissertations in sociology and related fields.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Identifies articles in all areas of sociology including anthropology, criminology, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, and urban studies.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new window(ProQuest) - Covers political, social, and public policy issues. Contains international information and some non-English sources.
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Articles from scholarly journals on American and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
Suggested Keywords
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- Economic inequality
- Food insecurity
- Gentrification
- Housing insecurity
- Income inequality
- Low income
- Poor -- United States -- History -- 21st Century
- Poverty
- Poverty -- Public policy
- Socioeconomic status