Research Guides: Sociology Research Guide: Books and eBooks

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Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada by Bruce E. Johansen
ISBN: 9781440864025
Publication Date: 2020
This book explores environmental injustice in North America through many different case studies.
The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle
ISBN: 9781982178253
Publication Date: 2023
This book explores the realities of climate migration in the United States through personal stories.
Policing Black Bodies by Angela J. Hattery; Earl Smith
ISBN: 9781442276956
Publication Date: 2018
This book uses an intersectional lens to understand how Black folks are policed inside and outside of the law.
Rape by Mithu Sanyal
ISBN: 9781786637505
Publication Date: 2019
This book explores social understandings of rape across many centuries. It pays especially close attention to male victims of rape, rape culture, and more.
A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness by Anne Rogers
ISBN: 9780335248483
Publication Date: 2021
This book examines mental health and illness through a sociological lens.
Status and Culture by W. David Marx
ISBN: 9780593296707
Publication Date: 2022
This book focuses on the cyclical relationship between culture/status and society.

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Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
ISBN: 9781479819805
Publication Date: 2019
This book looks at fatness as a racialized social construction.
Intersectionality by Anna Carastathis
ISBN: 9780803285552
Publication Date: 2016
This book introduces you to intersectionality theory and reveals ways it can be used to look at the world differently.
On Gangs by Scott H. Decker; David C. Pyrooz; James A. Densley
ISBN: 9781439920640
Publication Date: 2022
This book provides a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for understanding the social dimensions of gangs and gang activity.
The Price of Nuclear Power by Stephanie A. Malin
ISBN: 9780813569796
Publication Date: 2015
In this book, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several Indigenous communities impacted by uranium mining during the second World War.
Social Movements by Paul Almeida
ISBN: 9780520964846
Publication Date: 2019
This book contains information on the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead to political and social transformation.