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For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology / Anthropology by email () or Ask a librarian.
Essay
Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.
Selected handbooks and encyclopedias
For an overview of a topic or to identify key authors, books, journal articles, debates or theories, start with the encyclopedias listed below.
- International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
- Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education
- Palgrave handbook of masculinity and sport
- Sage Knowledge
- Routledge handbook of global sport
- Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media
- Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality
- Routledge handbook of sport, race and ethnicity
- Routledge handbook of sports development
- Routledge handbook of the business of women's sport
- Routledge handbook of the sociology of sport
- Women in sports : a reference handbook
- World sports: a reference handbook
Databases for journal articles
To find scholarly journal articles, search the databases for your discipline.
- Anthropology Plus - index for anthropological journals.
- Sociological Abstracts -- main database scholarly articles in sociology
- Social Sciences Full Text -- for scholarly articles in social sciences.
- Sport Discus -- worldwide literature on exercise and sports.
- CBCA Reference and Current Events -- covers Canadian topics including business, politics, literature, history, current events and news
Selected journals
Find books
The Library Catalogue provides access to books, journal articles, videos, government documents and much more. To limit the search results to "books", use the filter (left-hand column in search results) to "resource type" of "books."
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue, either the Basic or the Advanced search
Note: In the searches below, search results can been limited to "Online Resources only" and "Resource type" of "Books" and selected "Subjects"
- (sport* OR games OR athlet*) AND (anthropolog* OR ethnograph*)
- sport* league* AND (anthropolog* OR ethnograph*)
- olympic* AND (city OR cities)
- sport* AND (race OR racial* OR discrim* OR exclusion OR colonial*)
- Sport* AND (capitalism OR neoliberal* OR globalization)
- sport* AND (gender OR sexual* OR lgbt* OR queer* OR gay OR lesbian* OR homosexual*)
- "women athletes" OR "female athletes"
- (drugs OR doping) AND sport*
- "conflict theory" AND sport*
Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
TIP: Use "subject headings" found within the library record of relevant titles to find other useful book titles.
Selected books
- 21st Century Jocks: Sporting Men and Contemporary Heterosexuality
- American sports : an anthropological approach [print]
- Anthropology of sport : bodies, borders, biopolitics [print]
- Athlete learning in elite sport : a cultural framework
- Commodified and criminalized new racism and African Americans in contemporary sports
- Contesting ?Race' and Sport: Shaming the Colour Line
- Diversity & inclusion in sport organizations [print]
- Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children's Sports
- Fitness Doping Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health
- Football's dark side : corruption, homophobia, violence and racism in the beautiful game
- Games, sports and cultures [print]
- Gender equality and the Olympic programme
- A locker room of her own : celebrity, sexuality, and female athletes
- London Olympics and urban development : the mega-event city
- Mascot Nation : The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports
- Native games indigenous peoples and sports in the post-colonial world
- New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions
- Out in Sport: The experiences of openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport
- A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life
- Queer voices from the locker room
- 'Race' and sport : critical race theory
- Race, gender and sport : the politics of ethnic 'other' girls and women
- 'Race', youth sport, physical activity and health : global perspectives
- Racism and the Olympics
- Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport
- Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport: Queer Inquiries
- Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events: Roving Colonialism
- Skimpy Coverage : Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete
- Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
- A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America
- Sport and Challenges to Racism
- Sport and the female disabled body
- Sport and neoliberalism : politics, consumption, and culture
- Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities
- Understanding sport a socio-cultural analysis
Browse search
Choose: Browse tab, change "title" to "subject"
Some useful subject headings for this course:
- Athletes, Black
- Discrimination in sports -- United States
- Doping In Sports
- Feminism and sports
- Minorities in sports
- Olympic games
- Olympics
- Sex discrimination in sports
- Racism in sports
- Racism in sports -- United States
- Soccer -- Social aspects
- Sports -- Anthropological aspects
- Sports -- Social aspects
- Sports -- Social Aspects -- United States
- Sports -- Sociological aspects
- Sports & Recreation -- Business Aspects
- Sports and state
- Sports and state -- Canada
- Sports for people with disabilities
- Sports For Women
- Sports in popular culture
- Sports team mascots
- Women athletes
Presentation skills
- Resources on developing your participation skills
- Resources to help you improve your presentation skills
Library guides
- Library Research Tutorials. Animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles.
- Annotated bibliographies
- Evaluating sources
- How to find journal articles
- Library Catalogue search guide
- What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
- What is plagiarism? Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them
Writing help
Student Learning Commons provides assistance and numerous, helpful guides.