Find Articles for Your Assignment - SOC 103 - Naffziger-Hirsch - Fall 2025

Find Sociology Articles in Oakton's Library Databases

Try searches in both the general database, Academic Search Complete and the specialized database of sociology journals called SOC Index.

Remember to limit your results to peer reviewed articles by clicking the box on the left side of the results page.

For off campus access to the Oakton Library databases, use your myOakton user name and password.

Academic Search Ultimate - EBSCO

Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with around 10,000 full-text periodicals - of which more than 9,000 are peer-reviewed journals.
SocINDEX Full Text - EBSCO

Provides more than 860 full-text titles including core sociology peer-reviewed journals.

Social Problems--Oxford Journals
Social Problems presents scholarly articles offering critical perspectives on contemporary social issues as well as influential sociological findings and theories that have the ability to help us better understand and deal with our complex social environment.

Chicago Area News - NewsBank

Publications covering news in the Chicago region.
Chicago Tribune - ProQuest

Provides searchable full-text daily Chicago Tribune articles from 1849 to the present.
Chicago Defender - NewsBank

Provides searchable full-text Chicago Defender articles from 2008 to the present. Includes a calendar with links to available issues.
Chicago Sun-Times - NewsBank

Provides searchable full-text daily Chicago Sun-Times articles from 1985 to the present.

Block Club Chicago
What is Block Club?
We are a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) neighborhood news site, covering news all around Chicago. We are a subscription-based site, but a lot of our content, including breaking crime news, is free.
Axios Chicago
We launched Axios in January 2017 with a belief that remains urgent today: The world needs smarter, more efficient coverage of the topics shaping our fast-changing world. We pledged to put our Audience First, always.

CQ Researcher
Each issue examines a single "hot" topic with comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains reference book titles, pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.

The two databases linked below include news from around the world.

Access World News

NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Nexis Uni

Provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications using a variety of flexible search options. Access over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources.