Open Textbook Collections
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BC OpenEdThe B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, and BCcampus is tasked with managing it.
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Lumen LearningBoundless provides one textbook that covers a variety of interrelated sociological topics including, Stratification, Inequality, and Social Class in the U.S., Deviance, Social Control, and Crime, Family, Aging, and Sexuality.
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Free Sociology TextbooksIntroduction to Sociology, and Sociology of the Family textbooks.
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MERLOTMERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
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The National Academies Press (NAP)This resource provides textbooks on various behavioral and social science topics.All of the books on the National Academies Press site are available as freely downloadable PDFs.
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OER CommonsOER Commons provides a curated collection of Sociology textbooks and resources.
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OpenStaxIntroduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course.
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Open Textbook LibraryThis collection offers a variety of various Sociological texts including, ‘Understanding an Changing the Social World’, and ‘Social Problems: Continuity and Change’.
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Project Gutenberg – Sociology BookshelfProject Gutenberg’s list of Sociology books in the public domain that are available freely online.
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Sociological Landscapes – Theories, Realities and TrendsThis academic textbook presents sociology as terrain that one can virtually traverse and experience.
Courses and Videos
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Academic EarthAcademic Earth provides resources to open courses, journals/trade magazines, grants and scholarships, internships, and student and professional memberships.
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CourseraEvery course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.
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Crash Course Series: SociologyIn this YouTube series Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both shape societies and are shaped by them.
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EDU Sociology – YouTube VideosA collection of educational videos posted on YouTube.
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Future LearnLearn how to become more resilient in your personal and professional life with Future Learn Health and Psychology courses.
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Open Learn – SociologySearch for free sociology courses, inter-actives, videos and more. Free courses include “Does prison work?”, “Social problems: Who makes them?’, “The role of diagnosis in counselling and psychotherapy”, and “The social in social science.”
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Open Yale – SociologyThe Department of Sociology at Yale University provides concentrations in the fields of Comparative and Historical Sociology, Cultural Sociology and Social Theory, and Social Stratification and Life Course Research. In addition, faculty publish and teach in the areas of Gender and Sexuality, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology and Ethnography, and Chinese Society.
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TED ED: Lessons Worth Sharing – SociologyCreate and share lessons around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk or YouTube Video.
Additional Resources
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Southern Poverty Law CenterThis web site includes comprehensive documents on hate crimes across the USA. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports hundreds of active hate groups in the United States. This is something everyone needs to be aware of. Do you know what is in your backyard? Check it out. This is an excellent site for course assignments and or discussion in all fields of study.
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HathiTrustHathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
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The Sociological CinemaThe Sociological Cinema is an online resource to help sociology instructors incorporate videos into their classes.
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Sociology SourceResources and Ideas for Teaching Sociology from Nathan Palmer.