Sociological Abstracts is the "gold standard" of sociology indexing, and provides the most authoritative and focused results. It takes a little practice, but the reward is focused, efficient searching.
Why use a specialized database to find journal articles?
The Citation Guide menu tab also has instructions on how to use the citation feature in Sociological Abstracts.
Sometimes it helps to use more than one database in your searching. Google Scholar and JSTOR are also popular databases, but function a bit differently than Sociological Abstracts. Conduct a search using the same keywords in these three search tools.