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About this page

Call numbers at the Wardman Library are organized in groups according to the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. The Library of Congress has designated the letter H to indicate books about the Social Sciences. Some potentially useful, more specific categories for students of Sociology include:

HM Sociology (general)
HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
HQ The family. Marriage. Women
HS Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.
HT Communities. Classes. Races
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism

Recently Added e-Books

Brown and Gay in La by Anthony Christian Ocampo
ISBN: 9781479824250
Publication Date: 2022-09-19
The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, gay sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced.
Immigrant California by David Scott FitzGerald (Editor); John D. Skrentny (Editor)
ISBN: 9781503613485
Publication Date: 2021-01-26
Contributors to this volume cover topics ranging from education systems to healthcare initiatives and unravel the sometimes-contradictory details of California's immigration history. By examining the past and present of immigration policy in California, the volume shows how a state that was once the national leader in anti-immigrant policies quickly became a standard-bearer of greater accommodation.
Refusing Death by Nadia Y. Kim
ISBN: 9780804792660
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells their stories, finding that the women are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country's nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization. The women are highly conscious of how these harms are an assault on their bodies and emotions, and of their resulting reliance on a state they prefer to avoid and ignore.
Unequal Neighbors by Kristen Hill Maher; David Carruthers
ISBN: 9780197557198
Publication Date: 2021-04-16
Based on a wide range of original empirical materials, the book examines how asymmetries between these cities have been produced and reinforced through stigmatizing representations of Tijuana in media, everyday talk, economic relations, and local tourism discourse and practices. However, both place stigma and borders are subject to contestation, and the book also examines 'debordering' practices and counter-narratives about Tijuana's image.
The Unequal Pandemic by Clare Bambra; Julia Lynch; Katherine E. Smith
ISBN: 9781447361237
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal opportunity'disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues that the pandemic is unequal in three ways: it has killed unequally, been experienced unequally and will impoverish unequally. These inequalities are a political choice: with governments effectively choosing who lives and who dies, we need to learn from COVID-19 quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future. COVID-19 is an unequal pandemic.
For a Just and Better World by Sonia Hernandez
ISBN: 9780252044045
Publication Date: 2021-11-30
An international labor broker, Piña never left her native Tamaulipas. Yet she excelled in connecting groups in the United States and Mexico. Her story explains the conditions that led to anarcho-syndicalism's rise as a tool to achieve labor and gender equity. It also reveals how women's ideas and expressions of feminist beliefs informed their experiences as leaders in and members of the labor movement.
Nepantla Familias by Sergio Troncoso (Editor)
ISBN: 9781623499631
Publication Date: 2021-04-21
Nepantla—or living in the in-between space of the borderland—is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life—the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities. In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity.
Bridging Cultures by Harriett Romo (Editor); William Dupont (Editor); Daniel D. Arreola; Enrique X. de; Jesús F. De; Margaret Dorsey; Stephen Fox; John Phillip Santos; Daniel J. Gelo; Gabriel Aguilar; Patricia Sánchez-Gil; Melinda Vargas; Ricardo Romo; Miguel Díaz-Barriga
ISBN: 9781623499754
Publication Date: 2021-09-08
In Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, editors Harriett Romo and William Dupont focus specifically on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders across a coastal plain. Bringing together perspectives of architects, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, political scientists, geographers, and creative writers who span and encompass the border, its four sections explore the historical and cultural background of the region; the built environment of the transnational border region and how border towns came to look as they do; shared systems of ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, norms of behavior, and customs—the way of life we think of as Borderlands culture; and how border security, trade and militarization, and media depictions impact the inhabitants of the Borderlands.
The Child Before the Court by Timothy Barouch
ISBN: 9780817393656
Publication Date: 2021-12-14
A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of the "child" in both historical and contemporary legal discourse in landmark cases involving the child's rights to free speech and due process.
Democracy and Fake News by Serena Giusti (Editor); Elisa Piras (Editor)
ISBN: 9781003037385
Publication Date: 2020-12-29
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy.