OER Resources - Sociology

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

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.

Introduction to Sociology, and Sociology of the Family textbooks.

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

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.

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

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

This collection offers a variety of various Sociological texts including, 'Understanding an Changing the Social World', and 'Social Problems: Continuity and Change'.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A collection of educational videos posted on YouTube.

Learn how to become more resilient in your personal and professional life with Future Learn Health and Psychology courses.

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."

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.

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

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.

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

Resources and Ideas for Teaching Sociology from Nathan Palmer.

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.