New eBooks
Finding Books & eBooks - Sociology
The majority of the Library's book collections are now available online as eBooks. You can search for both print and online using UR Library Search.
Here are some handy FAQs about finding and accessing books and eBooks:
- How to search UR Library Search
- How do I find a book on the shelves?
- Borrowing books and requesting items
- Where can I find my module readings?
Print books in Sociology can be found at the following Shelfmarks (also known as a Call Number).
| Subject | Shelfmark(s) | Location |
| Children’s Rights | 305.23 | First Floor |
| Communities |
307 |
Second Floor |
| Culture and institutions | 306 | Second Floor |
| Media and communications | 302.23 | First Floor |
| Migration | 304.8 | First Floor |
| Political institutions | 306.2 | Second Floor |
| Race and ethnicity | 305.8 | First Floor |
| Sexual and gender identity | 306.76 | Second Floor |
| Sexual relations | 306.7 | Second Floor |
| Social anthropology | 301 | First Floor |
| Social change | 303.4 | First Floor |
| Social groups | 305 | First Floor |
| Social interaction | 302 | First Floor |
| Social processes | 303 | First Floor |
| Social psychology | 302 | First Floor |
| Social sciences | 300 | First Floor |
| Social services | 360 to 369 | Second Floor |
| Sociology | 301 | First Floor |
| Sport (sociology of) | 306.483 | Second Floor |
| Urban communities | 306.76 | Second Floor |
eBooks and Online Reference books
The following eBook collections are particularly useful for Sociology and related subjects:
- Social Theory This link opens in a new window
Covers writing from the eighteenth century to the present and includes key works by Durkheim, Weber, Habermas, Gilman, Foucault and Baudrillard.
- ACLS Humanities EBook collection This link opens in a new window
Books in the humanities and related social sciences.
- Bloomsbury Collections This link opens in a new window
Arts and humanities, especially Philosophy. NOTE: We do not subscribe to all of the content in this database. You can refine your results by selecting the option “Only Show content which I have full access to."
- Cambridge Companions This link opens in a new window
Includes the Companions in: Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Literature and the Classics and Music.
- Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
eBooks and journals in a range of disciplines. NOTE: We do not subscribe to all of the content in this database. You can filter your results by selecting the Refine option “Only show content I have access to".
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Reference books written and compiled by the world’s leading scholars in their field.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of reference works published by Oxford University Press, enabling cross searching of over 100 world-leading dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
- PsycBooks This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 4,600 eBooks and 69,000 book chapters published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
- Sage Catalyst This link opens in a new window
Unlimited access to over 700 premium social science eTextbooks, including nearly 100 titles on research methods and study skills.
- SpringerLink eBooks - Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Full text access to thousands of eBooks covering Social Sciences.
