Guides: Social Action and Justice (SAAJ): Home

Getting Started

Here are two of many great resources to help get you started.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.

This video covers the basics of using Opposing Viewpoints in Context:

News Sources

New York Times (NYTimes.com) This link opens in a new window
**Access requires logging in with a Pepperdine email on the NY Times homepage. Find step-by-step log-in instructions on the access guide to log in. **
U.S. Major Dailies (ProQuest Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Access to The New York Times (1980 - present), Washington Post (1987 - present), Los Angeles Times (1985 - present), Chicago Tribune, (1985 - present), and Wall Street Journal (1984 - present).
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Every issue from 1881-1990 with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Los Angeles Sentinel (ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2010.

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Biography in Context

Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Provides biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also provides full-text articles plus much more

People who are well known for their writings may also be included in Literature Resource Center

View Streaming Movies

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
AVON is a comprehensive video subscription, delivering almost 70,000 titles including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
An online streaming video service for universities with films, documentaries, and training videos.

Some videos found in Kanopy:

Miss Representation
This film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.
People Like Us: Social Class in America
Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life

Suggested Subjects

Search the library catalog for:

• civil rights

• cultural pluralism

• discrimination

• distributive justice

• educational equalization

• equality

• human rights

• income distribution

• poor laws and poverty

• prejudices

. prisons

• social change

• social ethics

• social justice

• social movements

• social values

• toleration

• welfare economics

Alternative to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively; anyone with internet access can write and edit Wikipedia articles. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources; these trusted, authoritative reference works are available 24/7.

If you need general information about subjects, persons, places etc. then GVRL is a good place to start.

The library catalog will lead you to many individual reference books such as:

Sage Handbook of Inclusion & Diversity in Education
This e-resource examines policy and practice from around the world, with respect to broadly conceived notions of inclusion and diversity within education.

Social Action and Justice (SAAJ)

Helpful Library Resources

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