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The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records published by Sociological Abstracts in print during the database's first 11 years, 1952-1962, have been added to the database as of November 2005, extending the depth of the backfile of this authoritative resource. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure, demography and human biology, economic development, environmental interactions, evaluation research, family and social welfare, health and medicine and law, history and theory of sociology, management and complex organizations, mass phenomena and political interactions, methodology and research technology, policy, planning, forecast and speculation, radical sociology, religion and science, rural and urban sociology, social development, social differentiation, social psychology and group interaction, sociology of the arts, business, education, studies in violence and power, substance abuse and addiction, welfare services and women's studies.
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