You can find books and other physical items by using Library Search. Once you search for your title or topic, select Availability: Available in the Library to narrow your results to physical items. To further narrow your results, select Resource Type: Books.
Below are the major sections of Library of Congress call numbers for Sociology. You can go to these letters on the library shelves and you will find the books about each subject area. To locate call numbers in Foley Center Library, see our guide for Call Number Locations.
| Call Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| HM | Sociology (General) |
| HN | Social History and Conditions, Social Problems, Social Reform |
| HQ | Family, Marriage, Women |
| HS | Societies: secret, benevolent, etc. |
| HT | Communities, Classes, Races |
| HV | Social Pathology, Social and Public Welfare, Criminology |
| HX | Socialism, Communism, Anarchism |
For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online: H subclasses.
If you can't find a book or a book chapter you need at Foley Library, check WorldCat which contains books in libraries worldwide. You can order books or book chapters via InterLibrary Loan easily after setting up an ILL account with Foley library. The world is your library!