SOC 201 Prof. Tsuhako: Find Books

Use the Library Catalog to search for electronic books by subject, keyword, author, or title.

• refine search results by Availability and select Available Online
• further refine the results by Resource Type and select Books 

To browse the library shelves for Sociology and Social Issues books, go to:

HH   Sociology (General)

HS   Societies

HN   Social HIstory & Conidtdions, Problems

HT   Communities, Classes, Races

HQ  The Family, Marriage, Women

HV   Social Pathology

Finding Books on Your Topic 

Once you have chosen a topic and done your background research you will be ready to conduct more comprehensive research using books.

Use the Library Catalog to find books. Books can provide a broad overview of a topic or in-depth information. You can search for books by author, title, subject, or keyword. 

Use the following terms to search by SUBJECT or KEYWORD for books on your topic:

• Social problems
• Social movements
• Social psychology
• Social conditions

or search for a specific social issue:

• poverty
• homelessness
• hunger
• AIDS
• healthcare
• population
• education
• welfare
• unemployment
• gender equity
• global warming
• racial profiling

To locate ebooks, refine search results by Availability and select Available Online.

Further refine the results by Resource Type and select Books.

Here are few E-books available electronically on a few important social issues.

Please note! This list is by no means conclusive. There are MANY more social issues and the library has books on most.