InterLibrary Loan (ILL)
We will borrow it for you from other libraries. Generally, it takes around 3 weeks to arrive.
Reciprocal Borrowing
You may visit other libraries for onsite borrowing via METRO, VALENJ, and Jesuit Library Passport.
Most books on sociology are arranged on the 3rd floor of the O'Toole Library.
You can browse the shelves, or more efficiently, search the library catalog to locate call numbers for the print collection.
H: Social Sciences (General)
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 & public welfare. Criminology
HX: Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
Reference books, like encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks, are located in the ReadyRef area, on the 1st floor of the O'Toole Library.
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A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have been forever altered by it. The authors interviewed more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City's Rikers Island prison complex-from incarcerated people and their relatives, to officers, lawyers, and commissioners, with stories spanning the 1970s to the present day. The deeply personal accounts take readers on a harrowing journey into every corner of Rikers, a failed society unto itself that reflects society's failings as a whole. . These are visceral stories of despair, brutality, resilience, humor, and hope, told by the people who were marooned on the island over the course of decades.
In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold.
Why medication-assisted treatment, the most effective tool for battling opioid addiction, is significantly underused in the United States. America's addiction crisis is growing worse. Time and again, scientific studies show that medications like Suboxone and methadone are the most reliable and effective treatment, yet more than 60 percent of US addiction treatment centers fail to provide access to them. In The Opioid Fix, Barbara Andraka-Christou highlights both the promise and the underuse of medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Addiction, Andraka-Christou writes, is a chronic medical condition. Why treat it, then, outside of mainstream medicine? Recounting the true stories of people in recovery, this groundbreaking book argues that MAT needs to be available to anyone suffering from opioid addiction.
This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict--important tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material. In Conflict Graffiti, John Lennon dives into the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones--ranging from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Egypt, to the tourist-attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall and the street art that has rebranded Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans. Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but as the conflict subsides a new graffiti and street art scene emerges--often one that ushers in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anesthetized forgetting.
A stirring consideration of homeownership, fatherhood, race, faith, and the history of an American city. In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides fodder for this captivating memoir in essays. With sardonic wit, Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray.
An inspiring and eye-opening look at the unsung women of the Civil Rights Movement. For decades, the women toiling both in the forefront and behind the scenes of the Civil Rights Movement have been overlooked. The Spirit of Freedom: Powerful Women of the Civil Rights Movement honors the incredible contributions that women made to the Civil Rights Movement. Featuring the stories of seventeen women, including Ella Baker, Dorothy Height, Ruby Hurley, Gloria Richardson, and Jo Ann Robinson, this book highlights their life stories, personal struggles, and influences on the movement.