Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology/Anthropology
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
- Finding ethnographies
- Films for Social Sciences
- 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
Fall
- SA150: Introduction to Sociology (In-person and Distance)
- SA 150 Library workshop [Fall 2019]
- SA 200W OL01: Power Conflict and Change in Canadian Society
- SA 231: Sociology of Families
- SA 250: Introduction to Sociological Theory (In-person and Distance)
- SA 255: Introduction to social research
- SA 257: Understanding Quantitative Research in Sociology and Anthropology
- SA 302 Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
- SA 304: Social Controls
- SA 321: Social Movements
- SA 335: Gender Relations and Social Issues
- SA 350: Classical Sociological Thought
- SA 356: Ethnography & qualitative methods
- SA 366: Forced Migration and Refugee Studies
- SA 442 / SA 887: Applying Sociological Imagination - Whose Lives Matter? Theory by Scholars Color
Graduate students
- Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Library Research Guide
- SA 442 / SA 887: Applying Sociological Imagination - Whose Lives Matter? Theory by Scholars Color
- SA 887: Special Topics: Indigenous-Settler Relations
Indigenous
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Studies Research Resources
- SFU Library guide: 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
- Stories of Resilience and Courage : Women Coaches Form a Global Community.
- Fifteen cents on the dollar : how Americans made the Black-white wealth gap /
- Genealogies of religion : discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam /
- Gifts from Amin : Ugandan Asian refugees in Canada /
- How we stay free : notes on a black uprising /
- Work less : new strategies for a changing workplace /
- Examining stereotypes and parenting behaviours of South Asian heritage parents : discourse and case studies /
- Carry forth the stories : a journey into indigenous oral traditions with implications for our humanity /
- How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain /
- Becoming abolitionists : police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom /
- The hammer : power, inequality, and the struggle for the soul of labor /
- The faggots & their friends between revolutions /
- Policing the crisis : mugging, the state and law and order /
- Emotions, Remembering and Feeling Better : Dealing with the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement in Canada /
- Constant disconnection : the weight of everyday digital life /
- Army of liars : how digital media and artificial intelligence are corrupting truth and endangering humanity /
- The Bloomsbury handbook of creative research methods /
- Born to rule : the making and remaking of the British elite /
- BlackLife : post-BLM and the struggle for freedom /
- The injustice of place : uncovering the legacy of poverty in America /