LibGuides: OER By Discipline: Sociology

OER Collections

JSTOR Open Content — Sociology
Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers. Focus on high-quality content, ease of use, and digital preservation.
MERLOT — Sociology
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
OER Commons — Sociology
OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and other course material for the study of sociology.

Textbooks

"Boundless Sociology" — Lumen
Educational content originally curated by Boundless, imported to the Lumen Platform.
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Except where otherwise noted, all material in Boundless courses are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.
"Introduction to Sociology" — Wikibooks
"Introduction to Sociology 3e" — OpenStax
This text adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course.
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It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories. The textbook presents section reviews with rich questions and discussions that help students apply their knowledge.
"Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods" — Saylor Academy
"Social Problems: Continuity and Change" — Saylor Academy
"Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World" — Saylor Academy
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Other adaptation of publication available at https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/
"Classical Sociological Theory and Foundations of American Sociology" — Open Oregon
Open access textbook on classical sociology with sections on Marx and Engels, Durkheim, Weber, and early American sociology.
IntechOpen Textbooks — Social Sciences
The world's leading publisher of Open Access books built by scientists, for scientists.
LibreTexts — Sociology Bookshelves
The Bookshelves area in this LibreTexts Library holds texts that are curated by the LibreTexts Development team and can be used either directly or as content for building customized remixes.
MERLOT — Sociology Textbooks
National Academies Press — Sociology
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes authoritative reports issued by The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
OER Commons — Sociology Textbooks
These textbooks are either in use at academic institutions or have been produced by subject matter experts affiliated with academic or professional institutions.
Open Research Library — Social Science Textbooks
The ORL is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform.
Open Social Work Textbooks
Building information equity in social work with open educational resources and open access to research.
Open Textbook Library — Sociology
Sociology textbooks curated by the Open Textbook Library
Project Gutenberg — Books in Sociology

Open Courses

"Introduction to Sociology" — Lumen
This course provides a comprehensive overview of key sociological topics and encourages students to think critically about the social world.
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Students develop the sociological imagination and examine society through each of the main sociological paradigms and through multiple social institutions. Based on the OpenStax Sociology 2e text.
"Introduction to Sociology (SOC101)" — Saylor Academy
Learn basic sociological principles and develop your sociological imagination by studying the origins of sociology as a discipline, major sociological theories, research methods, sex and gender, racism, etc.
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Excluding course final exams, content authored by Saylor Academy is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to share and adapt with attribution.
MERLOT — Sociology Online Courses
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
MIT OpenCourseWare — Society Courses
MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the Web, free of charge.
Open Yale Courses — Sociology Courses
Provides concentrations in the fields of Comparative and Historical Sociology, Cultural Sociology and Social Theory, and Social Stratification and Life Course Research.
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Most of the lectures and course material within Open Yale Courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. Unless explicitly set forth in the applicable Credits section of a lecture, third-party content is not covered under the Creative Commons license.

Visual Resources

NYU Open Ed: Harvey Molotch, Intro to Sociology — YouTube Playlist
Sociological Images
Sociological Images is used as a CC source by a wide range of news organizations and are routinely cross-posted at high profile news and opinion sites.
TED Talks — Culture
TED Talks — Feminism
TED Talks — Gender
TED Talks — LGBT
TED Talks — Poverty
TED Talks — Race
TED Talks — Social Media
TED Talks — Society
TED Talks — Sociology

Supplementary Materials & Tools

Gapminder
Gapminder produces free teaching resources (statistics, tools, videos, etc.) making the world understandable based on reliable statistics.
Social Science & Sociology Subject Websites
From the "Subject Websites" directory LibGuide. Some website materials may be copyrighted, but all are available for students to access.
Sociological Images Sample Assignments
Sample assignments and discussion questions about CC images of your choice.
SSRN Women's & Gender Studies Research Network
A repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research. Copyrighted, but available to view and cite.
Wolfram Alpha: Demographics & Social Statistics
Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology.
Wolfram Alpha: Society & Culture
Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology.
Writing Center Tips & Tools: Writing for Sociology
From UNC at Chapel Hill.