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 [New, Sept 2023]
- Primary Sources for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS)
- See also SFU Special Collections guide: LBGTQ2S+ materials [New, Dec 2023]
- Research methods for Anthropology and Sociology
- Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
- Researching Race and Racism [New, Nov 2023]
- 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
Undergraduate
- 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 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 335: Gender Relations and Social Issues
- SA 340: Social Issues and Social Policy Analysis
- SA 345: Race, Immigration and the Canadian State
- SA 350: Classical Sociological Thought
- SA 353: Sociology of sport
- SA 356: Ethnography & Qualitative Methods
- SA 366: Forced Migration and Refugee Studies
Graduate students
- Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Library Research Guide
- 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
- Soldiers and kings : survival and hope in the world of human smuggling /
- Normative motherhood : regulations, representations, and reclamations /
- Social research methods : qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches /
- Identity orchestration : Black lives, balance, and the psychology of self stories /
- Contextualizing Angela Davis : the agency and identity of an icon /
- Muslim and British post-9/11 : identities in reflexive modernity /
- Defying Displacement : Urban Recomposition and Social War /
- Pregnant while Black : advancing justice for maternal health in America /
- At the edge of mangrove forest : the Suku Asli and the quest for indigeneity, ethnicity, and development /
- Reform and Development of the Old-Age Security System in China.
- Refugee pathways to freedom : escaping persecution and statelessness /
- Clinical anthropology 2.0 : improving medical education and patient experience /
- It's not about whiteness, it's about wealth : how the economics of race really work /
- Manufacturing consensus : understanding propaganda in the era of automation and anonymity /
- With the best of intentions : interreligious missteps and mistakes /
- The transgender encyclopedia /
- The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking /
- Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir /
- Touristic world-making and fan pilgrimage in popular culture destinations /
- Our biggest fight : reclaiming liberty, humanity, and dignity in the digital age /
- So we can know : writers of color on pregnancy, loss, abortion, and birth /
- Critical participatory inquiry : an interdisciplinary guide /
- Brown skins, white coats : race science in India, 1920-66 /
- The Black box : writing the race /
- Diversity and the transition to adulthood in America /
- Land of extraction : property, fracking, and settler colonialism /
- Exploring the ambivalence of liquid racism : in between antiracist and racist discourse /
- Insurgent communities : how protests create a Filipino diaspora /
- Introduction to forensic anthropology /
- Being Muslim in Indonesia : religiosity, politics and cultural diversity in bima. /