Sociology information resources: Background information

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For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Liaison Librarian for Sociology / Anthropology by email moninder_lalli@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

This guide provides selected reference sources for Sociology.  See also, anthropological reference sources.

Selected dictionaries and encyclopedias

Selected handbooks and encyclopedias

Aging, aged

Class, culture, de-colonial, ethnicity, race, racism

Death, Dying, Burial, Bereavement

Dis/ability

Disease and society (epidemics / pandemics)

Environment

Feminism, women

for more, try "GSWS Library Information - Background information"

Gender, sexuality, identity

Globalization, capitalism, imperialism, neoliberalism

Health

Human rights, human trafficking

Indigenous

Latin America, Chicana, Latin/x

Marriage and family

Memory, memorialization

Middle East

Migration and development

Policy 

Religion

Research methods

For more, see guide: Research methods for Anthropology and Sociology 

Social movements

Sports, fitness

Terrorism

Tourism

Other topics

Selected biographical