A Guide to Sociology Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are in the public domain or that have been introduced with an open license. An open license means that anyone can use, copy and re-share the materials. OER can be in the form of full courses, course materials, textbooks, curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, tests, assignments, videos or audio (UNESCO)

Open Access vs. OER

Open Access is not the same as OER. While OER are created under an open license, Open Access materials are protected under traditional copyright and cannot be copied, shared, or remixed as can be done with OER.  Open Access materials can be read online without a subscription or download. Open Access content cannot be embedded either, you can only link to these resources in the same way you would link to the Library's databases.

This page contains selective OER textbooks in the discipline of Political Science. 

Open Textbook Library - Sociology Textbooks

OpenStax - Introduction to Sociology 2 edition

• 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.

• TED ED: Lessons Worth Sharing - Sociology

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

• Wikibooks

  Wikibooks is an open content textbook collection spanning a variety of reading levels and disciplines.

• MITOpen Courseware - Social Science / Society

• BCcampus - Open ED - Sociology