For your SOC 222 assignment, use EBSCO Academic Search Complete [UW restricted] or JSTOR [UW restricted] to locate academic journal articles to summarize.

• Academic Search Complete includes articles in a variety of disciplines, so you'll have to use specific sociological search words to find relevant articles with a sociological focus.
• In JSTOR, you'll need to limit your search to dates after 2000 and use the checkbox to limit to the Sociology group of journals.

Your topics are all fairly general, so try to get more specific with your search terms. For example, instead of searching for "sports," think of a specific sport -- football, soccer, basketball, tennis. Instead of "deviance," think of a particular kind of deviance in the context of sports culture -- soccer hooliganism, for instance, or professional athletes and homosexuality.

To limit your search to sociology articles, add one of these phrases into your search:

• Sociological aspects
• Social aspects
• Sociolog*

The "function of sport" topic is the trickiest, because "function" isn't a great search word. Try these subject headings in EBSCO:

• Sports - sociological aspects
• Sports - social aspects
• Sports - psychological aspects
• Sports participation AND sociolog*

Database Search Tips:

• AND returns results containing all terms:  sports AND television
• OR returns results with either term:  television OR media
• Parentheses ( ) indicate separate concepts, like an equation, (A or B) and C: 
          sports AND (television OR media)
• Quotation marks " " return results using that specific phrase: "social aspects"
• Truncation * returns results with a root word and any ending: sociolog* [finds sociology, sociological ...]
       
  

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