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Sociology: Books

Reading Lists

books

Use our online reading lists to find key readings for your modules. Link directly to an e-book, scanned chapter, or the library catalogue with information about where to find the book in the Library.

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For items not available in the library, use our document supply service.

Request articles, books and chapters for your research.

Order new books, borrow inter-library loans, digitise articles and chapters, request postal loans.

Finding books

Library Search

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eBooks for Sociology

Sage Catalyst

A fully-loaded collection of premium social science textbooks from SAGE

Cambridge Companions: Sociology

Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major topics.

Oxford Reference

Oxford Reference provides over 175,000 concise definitions and in-depth, specialist encyclopedic entries on all of the diverse disciplines that fall under the umbrella of the social sciences.

Study Skills Books

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Dissertation and Thesis Books

Doing Your Research Project book cover
Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project book cover
Succeeding Dissertation book cover

Find and use printed books

Most of our print books can be borrowed. If the book you want is on loan, you can place a hold on it and you will get an email when it comes back.

Our printed books are arranged by subject classification. The Classification Scheme can seem complicated to start with, but you will soon get used to it.

Most books covering core topics in Sociology are on floors 4 and 5 of the Library.

Subject dictionaries

Subject dictionaries are useful for understanding concepts and theories in sociology and how they are defined.

Blackwell dictionary of sociology

A dictionary of sociology (Oxford Reference)

Cambridge dictionary of sociology

A dictionary of sociology

Also see Oxford Bibliographies for more detail. This includes overviews of concepts, with a list of recommended readings.

Library Online Courses

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Library online courses

Find out about the online courses we offer for all students to help develop both your wider academic skills and skills in using the Library for your research.