Open Educational Resources: Sociology

ENVS203: Environmental Ethics, Justice, and World Views (Saylor course)

Saylor Academy course. "In this course we introduce the concept of environmental ethics, a philosophy that extends the ethical concepts we traditionally apply to human behavior to the natural world. We will study the history of environmental ethics, the concept of environmental justice, and explore how our views about the natural world have changed over time."

Orientation to Energy and Sustainability Policy (PennState open course)

Developed for Penn State, this course provides an orientation to "energy industry knowledge, global perspective, analytical skills, communication skills, and sustainability ethics.”

The Promise of Urban Agriculture - National Study of Commercial Farming in Urban Areas

This study investigates the commercial promise of urban-based agriculture and uncover those specific urban farm characteristics that seem to be linked most closely to long-term survivability and growth.

Introduction to Permaculture, Andrew Millison, Oregon State University, 2017

OER materials from Open Textbook Library

American Environmental History / Dan Allosso, 2019

OER materials from Open Textbook Library

American Environmental History (open textbook)

This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present.

Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation (open textbook)

As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.

Energy and Sustainability in Contemporary Culture (PennState open course)

Developed for Penn State. After learning about core energy and sustainability issues, as well as information source evaluation and rhetorical analysis, students ... get the opportunity to explore and critically evaluate selected media from contemporary culture that focus on topics related to energy and sustainability.

• Ancient Civilizations - Independence Hall Association

  Independence Hall Association provides a comprehensive textbook with sections that cover Archaeologists and Their Artifacts, Anthropologists and Their People, Prehistoric Time, and in-depth chapters regarding Ancient Civilizations. This resource is great for teachers and student to find historical documents and study people and places.
• BC Open Textbooks

  The B.C. Open Textbook Project provides textbooks including The History of Our Tribe: Hominini, Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, and Native Peoples of North America.
• LibreText

  Explore books on cultural anthropology, physical anthropology and linguistics.
• 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.
• OER Commons

  OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnic Studies, and Linguistics.

  Cultural Anthropology

  • Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology

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    We are delighted to bring to you this novel textbook, a collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology.
  • The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology

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    Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world’s jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human.