Sociology

A subject guide to help with beginning research in the field of Sociology.

Library Research Guide

Data Snapshots

Statista
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Insights and facts across 600 industries and 50+ countries; includes the Consumer Insights (formerly Global Consumer Survey). Use as the starting point of your research to get facts and insights on topics that matter, expert research in condensed form, market outlooks, analyzed markets from 150+ countries, daily infographics, visualized global stories, and global consumer survey information.

Data Sets and Analysis Tools

ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Paid for by K-State Libraries The ICPSR data archive houses more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. ICPSR also collaborates with U.S. statistical agencies and foundations on data stewardship and creating thematic data collections.

ICPSR requires the creation of a free personal account using your K-State email to download data and access full site features. If you are on-campus, please use the link above to access ICPSR and create an account. If you are off-campus, please use this link to create your account, then access ICPSR content using the link above.
TDM Studio
Paid for by K-State Libraries NEH Endowment Fund
There are 2 individual products within TDM Studio.
The first product allows the mining and analyzing of text and data from a selection of newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and academic dissertations/theses. Visualization tools provide easy ways to manipulate the results. An account, using your K-State email address, must be created to use this database.

To help conduct more in-depth analysis, researchers with coding skills can request a workbench, from their subject librarian, that will allow for the analyzing of data using Python or R. A workbench allows the mining and analyzing of text and data from the Libraries’ ProQuest collections (current and historical newspapers, full-text dissertations and theses, scholarly journals, primary sources, etc.) and personal datasets (open-access content such as institutional repositories, journal articles, social media, blogs, etc.).