This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

Click on any of the tabs above to find information about how to locate Sociology related books, journal articles, websites and more.

What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

Beware Wikipedia! It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
Don't believe everything you read.

Avoid Plaigiarism
That's using an author's work or ideas without referencing it (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

'New Titles Received' Lists   

Alternative globalizations: an integrative approach to studying dissident knowledge in the global justice movement - S. A. Hamed Hosseini

ISBN: 0415494761

Examines the ‘anti-globalization’ or ‘global justice’ movement, exploring the formation & transformation of ideas, identities & solidarities in the movement. The book develops an analytical model to explain the movement’s ideational novelties & continuities in terms of activist social experiences & global social changes.

Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out: kids living & learning with new media - Mizuko Ito ... [et al.]

ISBN: 0262013363

Today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networks sites & text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youth's social & recreational use of digital media. This text fills that gap, reporting on an ambitious 3 year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living & learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs & in online spaces.

The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world - David Kirkpatrick

ISBN: 1439102120

There's never been a Web site like Facebook: more than 350 million people have accounts, & if the growth rate continues, by 2013 every Internet user worldwide will have his/her own page. Written with the full cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg, the book follows the company from its genesis in a Harvard dorm room through its successes over Friendster & MySpace...

The labour of leisure: the culture of free time - Chris Rojek

ISBN: 1412945534

Demonstrates how leisure has become a form of labor. Ranging widely from an analysis of the inflated aspirations of the leisure society thesis to the culture of deception that permeates leisure choice, the author shows how leisure is inextricably linked to emotional labor and intelligence. It is now a school for life.

Living on borrowed time : conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo - Zygmunt Bauman

ISBN: 0745647391

The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency. Few are better placed to do this than Zygmunt Bauman, a social thinker whose writings on liquid modernity have pioneered a new way of seeing the world in which we live at the dawn of the 21st Century.

Green dream: how future cities can outsmart nature

ISBN: 9056627414

Investigates what "green" means in practical terms for design, architecture & urbanism. Led by The Why Factory, the global urbanist thinktank headed by Winy Maas, experts in the field debate what is currently considered green & how the term ought to be defined going forward, challenging architectural conventions & looking into the potential of new green architecture.

 

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