Library Research Guides: SOC 334: Consumer Culture: Find Articles

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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and peer reviewed articles in sociology.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Journal articles in the fields of communications, mass media, journalism, television, radio, newspaper publishing, speech, broadcasting, communication theory, and advertising, with full text for over 500 journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Scholarly article citations and records in all fields of life sciences, medicine, public health, and plant and animal science. Free National Library of Medicine search page.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of international journals, conference proceedings, and other scholarly literature, with a primary focus on STEM and social sciences. Article references are included in the record. Search by author, affiliation, topic and more, and search to see who cited a particular article.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Good resource to use for popular culture, marketing, marketing strategies, status, consumer consumption, and consumer luxuries.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Index to popular magazines from 1890-1982.
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
U.S. & Canadian history articles, prehistory to present, written from 1964 to present.

Journal of Popular Culture
Continues to break down the barriers between so-called “low” and “high” culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.
Journal of Consumer Research
Publishes scholarly research that describes and explains consumer behavior.
Consumer Studies Research Network
See especially the listserv.
Food, Culture, & Society
Explores the complex relationships among food, culture, and society from numerous disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as in the world of food beyond the academy.
Annual Review of Sociology
Excellent resource for an in-depth look at a broad array of topics.
MonkeySee
Pop-culture news from NPR

Quartz
Quartz is a digitally native news outlet, born in 2012, for business people in the new global economy.
Wired
Wired Magazine offers articles and news pieces on influences of emerging technology on culture, economics and politics.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, that profiles startups, reviews new Internet products, and breaks tech news.
The Verge
The Verge covers the intersection of technology, science, art, and culture.
gizmodo
Design and technology blog.
engadget
Focuses on gadgets, devices & technology.

Note: you may also find it very useful to consult Babson's many marketing-related resources

CrunchBase
Related to TechCrunch site, CrunchBase is the world’s most comprehensive dataset of startup activity and it’s accessible to everyone.

Business (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, and news on international finance, business, and economics.