LibGuides: Open Educational Resources for Sociology: OER Sociology Textbooks

Open Textbook Repositories

Search for 'Sociology' or a topic of your choice in the following repositories and databases for open access textbooks

Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life
Vera Kennedy, West Mills College Lemoore, 2018. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Diversity
University of Georgia, 2024. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Gendered Lives: Global Issues
SUNY Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4384-8695-6. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
SUNY Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1-4384-9170-7. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Radical Social Theory: An Appraisal, a Critique, and an Overcoming
UMassAmherst, 2022. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World
Springer, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-78692-6. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.

Classical Sociological Theory and Foundations of American Sociology
Oregon State University, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-955101-04-2. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Foundations in Sociology I
University of Saskatchewan, 2020. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Introduction to Sociology 3e
OpenStax, 2021. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Social Problems: Continuity and Change
Saylor Foundation, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-9461352-3-0. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-9461352-4-7. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License v4.0.
Together: The Science of Social Psychology
NOBA, 2024. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License v4.0.

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
Oregon State University, 2023. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Saylor. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Herkimer College. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
Social Data Analysis
Rhode Island College Digital Publishing, 2021. ISBN:
Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices - (Revised edition)
University of Southern Queensland, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-4751-4612-7. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License v4.0.