Sociology 1001 Library Research Guide: Library Catalogue Subject Headings
Searching by Subject: Library Catalogue Subject Headings
- This section of the Sociology 1001 provides information on Library Catalogue subject headings.This page includes a list of subject headings that may be useful for essay topics.
Library Catalogue Subject Headings
Listed below are Subject Headings from the Online Catalogue which may assist with your essay research.
These are only suggested subject headings.
Keyword searches using other terms may also provide useful material.
To retrieve items which contain more than one search term, and or or not can be used to combine terms.
and will retrieve items which contain both terms
For example Fordism and work . or marx and work and sociology
or will retrieve items which contain either term
For example globalization or globalisation, will retrieve either of these terms
not will exclude a term from a search
The search sociology of work will retrieve items which include this phrase,items with either term will be retrieved.
To search a term and its variants use the asterisk truncation symbol * The search urban* will retrieve terms such as urbanize, urbanized, urbanization etc.
Subject headings or searches which retrieve a large number of items can be limited by date or additional terms.
Keyword searches allow you to a limit an initial search by date, language, format (vdeo, sound) location etc..
Topic 1
- Industrial sociology
- sociology australia
- work sociological aspects
- work social aspects
- labor social aspects
- professions sociological aspects
- occupations sociological aspects
- organizational sociology
- marxian school of sociology
- globalization
- division of labour
- Sexual division of labor
Also search by subject under the name of indivudual theorists.
Topic 2
- Simmel Georg
- Sociology urban
- urbanization
- time sociological aspects
- city and town life
Keyword searches
Sometimes you may have difficulty finding a subject heading which describes your topic or there simply appears to be too much information. A keyword search may help you retrieve relevant information.
For example use keywords that combine sociological perpectives with a issue central to your essay topic such as work or city life
Other examples of key word searches include
- sociology and space and urban*
- fordism and (work or labour)
- Mcdonaldization
- sociology and space and urban*
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
- (communit* or city) and (simmel or burgess or dempsey)
- post industrial* or postindustrial*
Note the use of the asterisk * in some of the searches, this allows you to search for a root term and its variants. For example urban* will retrieve urban, urbanized, urbanization etc
Search retrieves too many items
A subject search on a particular sociologist or theorist may retrieve too many items. Use the catalogue limit function 
limit a search to items containing a specific title or subject word or items published after a specific date. For example
- The subject heading Cities and towns retrieves 288 items and globalization 171 use the limit to narrow your search to items contating the subject heading Sociology or another appropriate term
If you want to further explore the Library catalogue try the Catalogue Tutorial
http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/skills/tutorials/catalogue/