CSUCI OER Subject Guide

Sociology Resources

Textbooks

• BC OpenEd

  The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, and BCcampus is tasked with managing it.

• OASIS

 Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) an OER search database with textbooks, courses and more. It is being developed by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library. You can conduct a basic search or search by subject. Like all of these OASIS is constantly being added to. 

• Free Sociology Textbooks

  Introduction to Sociology, and Sociology of the Family textbooks.

• Lumen Learning

  Boundless 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.

• MERLOT

  MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

• 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.

• OAPEN

  Both a collection of open access publications and a publishing platform with a focus on social sciences and humanities.

• OER Commons

  OER Commons provides a curated collection of Sociology textbooks and resources.

• Open Book Publishers

  UK publishing imprint that provides free online access and low cost formatted and print access to titles with a special emphasis on humanities, digital humanities, and social sciences.

• OpenStax

  Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course.

• Open Textbook Library- A database of OER textbooks of various subjects and different creative commons licenses. Run through the University of Minnesota with over 1600 textbooks to look through. Open Textbook Library is constantly updated with new materials and editions being added regularly. 
• Pressbooks OER

  The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Guide lists a wide range of open educational resources, including textbooks and courses, organized by discipline.

• Sociological Landscapes - Theories, Realities and Trends

  This academic textbook presents sociology as terrain that one can virtually traverse and experience.

Courses and Videos

• Academic Earth

  Academic Earth provides resources to open courses, journals/trade magazines, grants and scholarships, internships, and student and professional memberships.

• Coursera

  Every 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.

• Crash Course Series: Sociology

  In this YouTube series Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both shape societies and are shaped by them.

• EDU Sociology - YouTube Videos

  A collection of educational videos posted on YouTube.

• Future Learn

  Examine perspectives on society, and the cultural issues facing society. Apply sociological theory to researching social groups.

• Open Learn - Sociology

  Search 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."

• Open Yale - Sociology

  The 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.

• Saylor Academy

  Collection of PDF versions of textbooks on various topics. HTML versions are also available.

• TED ED: Lessons Worth Sharing - Sociology

  Create and share lessons around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk or YouTube Video.

Additional Resources

• HathiTrust

  HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

• Project Gutenberg - Sociology Bookshelf

  Project Gutenberg's list of Sociology books in the public domain that are available freely online.

• The Sociological Cinema

  The Sociological Cinema is an online resource to help sociology instructors incorporate videos into their classes.

• Sociology Source

  Resources and Ideas for Teaching Sociology from Nathan Palmer.

• Southern Poverty Law Center

  This 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.

• Statistics - Open Intro

  A college-level textbook covering data basics, probability (optional), distributions, inference for means and proportions, and regression, including multiple and the basics of logistic regression.

• Ubiquity Press

  Open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data.

• Wikibooks

  Hosted by the Wikimedia foundation, Wikibooks is an open content textbook collection spanning a variety of reading levels and disciplines.