Contact info

Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology/Anthropology
778.782.4264 (Voicemail only)
moninder_lalli@sfu.ca

You can contact Moninder Lalli to request for assistance with doing library research.  In addition, help is also available through Ask a librarian.

Library guides

• Welcome video -- for a quick introduction to using the Library website for research and to get help.
• Library tutorials
• How to place an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request

Help by topics 

• African Diaspora
• Finding ethnographies
• Films for Social Sciences
• Indian Diaspora
• Intercultural Communication, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Training Guide
• Primary Sources for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS)
  • See also SFU Special Collections guide:  LBGTQ2S+ materials
• Research methods for Anthropology and Sociology
• Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
• Researching Race and Racism
• Urban Transportation

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

• How to Read a Journal Article (pdf) - Tips and tricks to make reading and understanding social science journal articles easier.

Help with course assignments

• SA150: Introduction to Sociology (In-person and Distance)
  • SA 150 Library workshop [Fall 2019]
• SA 250: Introduction to Sociological Theory (In-person and Distance)
• SA 255: Introduction to social research
• SA 275: China in Transition
• SA 321: Social Movements
• SA 337: Sexuality and Society
• SA 350: Classical Sociological Thought
• SA 356: Ethnography & qualitative methods
• SA 366: Forced Migration and Refugee Studies
• SA 442: Applying the Sociological Imagination - Sociology of Death–Institutions, Power & Grief

Graduate students

• Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Library Research Guide
• SA 887: Special Topics: Indigenous-Settler Relations

Indigenous

• SFU Library guides: Indigenous Studies Research Resources, Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre
• SFU’s Aboriginal Reconciliation Council’s final report: Walk this Path With Us

New Sociology books

For other new books, see Selected new books and other items purchased by the Library