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Learning Sociology Subjects and Concepts
Concepts
- Crash Course – Sociology: youtube.org
- Khan Academy – MCAT Sociology: khanacademy.org
- School of Life: youtube.org
Documentaries
- Documentaries – Reddit: reddit.com
- DocumentaryHeaven – Food for your Brain: documentaryheaven.com
- Top Documentary Films: topdocumentaryfilms.com
Lectures
- New York University – Open Education
- Penn State
- University of Amsterdam
- University of Berkley – Webcast
- University of Houston
- University of Sydney
- Yale University
Open Courses and Educational Sources
- Academic Earth: academicearth.org
- Coursera: coursera.org
- edX: edx.org
- Future Learn: futurelearn.com
- Khan Academy: khanacademy.org
- MIT Open Courseware: ocw.mit.edu
- Open 2 Study: www.open2study.com
- Open Yale Courses: oyc.yale.edu
- Saylor Academy: learn.saylor.org
- University of the People: uopeople.edu
Course Search Engines/Aggregators
Podcasts/Radio Shows
- Code Switch – Race and Identity Remixed: npr.org
- The Measure of Everyday Life: measureradio.libsyn.com
Commentary
Blogs
- Clippings: thesocietypages.org
- The Consumer Trap – Exposing Capitalism, Marketing & Market Totalitarianism
- Contexts – Understanding People in their Social Worlds: contexts.org
- Creative Sociology: creativesociology.blogspot.com
- Cyborgology: thesocietypages.org
- Data Colada – Thinking about Evidence and Vice Versa: datacolada.org
- Discover Society: discoversociety.org
- Discoveries: thesocietypages.org
- Dispatches from a Dean: thesocietypages.org
- Economic Sociology and Political Economy: economicsociology.org
- Engaging Sports: thesocietypages.org
- Everyday Sociology Blog: everydaysociologyblog.com
- Families as They Really Are – Council on Contemporary Families: thesocietypages.org
- Family Inequality: familyinequality.wordpress.com
- Feminist Reflections: thesocietypages.org
- Gender and Society: gendersociety.wordpress.com
- Give Methods a Chance: thesocietypages.org
- Graphic Sociology: thesocietypages.org
- Inequality by (Interior) Design: inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com
- Lane Kenworthy: lanekenworthy.net
- Law and Sexuality: lawandsexuality.wordpress.com
- The Mad Sociologist Blog: madsociologistblog.com
- Made in America – Notes on American Life from American History: madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com
- The Other Sociologist: theothersociologist.com
- The Power Elite – Social Process and Social Facts in 21st Century Society: thepowerelite.blogspot.com
- Racism in Review – Scholarship and Activism toward Racial Justice: racismreview.com
- ReviseSociology: revisesociology.com
- Scatterplot – The Unruly Darlings of Public Sociology: scatter.wordpress.com
- The Sociological Eye – Writings by the Sociologist Randall Collins: sociological-eye.blogspot.com
- Sociological Images: thesocietypages.org
- The Sociological Cinema: thesociologicalcinema.com
- The Sociological Imagination: sociologicalimagination.org
- The Sociological Mail: thesociologicalmail.com
- The Sociological Review: thesociologicalreview.com
- This Sociological Life – A Blog by Sociologist Deborah Lupton: wordpress.com
- Sociology Lens: sociologylens.net
- Sociology Toolbox: thesocietypages.org
- Spottedtoad: spottedtoad.wordpress.com
- There’s Research on That!: thesocietypages.org
- This is not a Sociology Blog: thisisnotasociology.blog
- Understanding Society – Innovative Thinking about a Global World: understandingsociety.blogspot.com
- Work in Progress: wipsociology.org
Fact Checking
- General
- Hoaxes and Rumors
- Media
- Political Issues
News
- Unbiased News Sources: There is bias in any system, however these news sources are less biased.
Research
Data
- Google Dataset Search: toolbox.google.com
- United States
- World Comparisons
Open Academic Search Engines
Note: These are external search engines, beyond the services typically at university libraries (e.g., EBSCO, ProQuest).
- BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: base-search.net
- Microsoft Academic: academic.microsoft.com
- Paperity: paperity.org
- SemanticScholar: semanticscholar.org
- ScienceOpen.com
- WorldWideScience.org
Teaching Tools
Critical Thinking
- FlackCheck.org – Annenberg Public Policy Center
- Political literacy companion site to FactCheck.org, helping people recognize flaws in arguments and political ads.
Technology
Media
Professional Development
- InstructionalDesign.org
- “InstructionalDesign.org is provided to support students, educators, instructional designers, learning engineers, policy makers, and all others interested in the learning sciences and the art of designing effective learning experiences.”
Books
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