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Welcome to the MERLOT Sociology Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning in sociology. You are invited to become a Member. It's free. We hope as you use the learning materials and other resources, you will discover and create your own learning materials to share with others!
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The Sociological Cinema is an online resource to help sociology instructors incorporate videos into their classes. The centerpiece of the site is a searchable database of video clips. Each clip is tagged with sociological themes, year, and includes a summary of the clip with suggestions of how to use it in the classroom. The focus of the site is on short video clips (<10 minutes), but videos may be up to one hour in length. The site also includes comment sections for all videos, a blog, assignments, video-related scholarship on teaching and learning, and a form to submit new video clips to the site
New Materials
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Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens
This openly licensed text, created with students, approaches contemporary families from an equity lens. It asks two...
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Search & Access: Understanding An Information Organizing System (HULU)
Understaning how information is organized is vital to engaging in the broad information landscape. Here we utilize a...
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Exercises for Critical Thinking
These exercises were written to accompany a course in critical thinking. Everything starts with a question so it's...
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Introducing Vigilant Audiences
This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon...
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Political and Social Divisons in American Society | SSRIC - Social Science Research and Instructional Council
The goal of these exercises is to introduce students to the analysis of political and social divisions in American...
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Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base contains resources created, curated, and contributed by the Open Scholarship...
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Sociology | Simple Book Production
Foundations of social stratification are shifting rapidly in the United States and the world. The sociology discipline...
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Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education
Open At The Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education is a pertinent book on Open Education, "containing 38...
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Feminism 101 introductory lectures
I have produced a series of introductory undergraduate lectures on the subject of feminism and gender: the first...
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Beyond Race - Cultural Influences on Human Social Life
The book is supported by discussion of relevant theory and research in cultural sociology. Beyond Race: Cultural...
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South African History Online
South African History Online (SAHO), established 1998, is one of the largest and most comprehensive online, open access...
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CoVis - Discover reliable COVID-19 research
CoVis provides a curated knowledge map of seminal works on COVID-19 research. The knowledge map is constantly evolving...
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Open Research Library: Open Access Books
The Open Research Library (ORL) will eventually contain a scholarly collection of 20,000+ Open Access books available to...
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H5P OER HUB
H5P's Authoring Tool (https://h5p.org) is used by the global Open Education and K-12 Education Community to create and...
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Everyday Social Justice
This website is for people who want to learn about social justice, or for folks who teach it. It has all of the teaching...
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100 Free University Courses Online [2020] [UPDATED]
Multiple global universities have joined hands to help people in this time of distress. They have made hundreds of...
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Data Analysis Exercises on Gun Issues
The goal of these exercises is to introduce students to quantitative data analysis using a Pew Research Center survey...
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Exercises for Analyzing Religious Variables
These exercises were written for courses that include a component on religion as well as for courses that introduce...
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Plague Diaries: Firsthand Accounts of Epidemics, 430 B.C. to A.D. 1918
A collection of nine excerpts from historical accounts of epidemics: two from ancient sources, one from the Black Death...
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance Guideline
The EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25, 2018, replacing the Data Protection Directive...
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Coronavirus Disease Research Community - COVID-19 | Zenodo
Zenodo's Coronavirus Disease Research Community COVID-19 collects research inputs that may be relevant to the Coronavirus...
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Sociology of Education
Through this module, sociology of education, a subject that is not taught in secondary schools, you will acquire a very...
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OSF: Coronavirus Outbreak Research Collection
The Center for Open Science (COS) has launched April 23, 2020 in response to the urgent and ongoing need for aggregated...
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Neural Covidex: COVID-19 AI-Open Data Mining Search Engine
Scientists and researchers can now quickly, freely, and easily search through over 45,000+ scholarly articles, medical...
New Members
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Aimee PhelpsUniversity of Rhode Island -
Danielle HilaireFriends' Central School
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Gabriela BlancoUCV
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Alfiya BattalovaAlexander College
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Brandy SimulaUniversity System of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology
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Geri FlynnGalway Technical Institute
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Nathan VolanteOld Dominion University
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Nicole CrookChaffey College
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Neha BhideSt. Xavier's College, Mumbai
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Flora RudacilleCommunity/Technical College of Southern Nevada
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Johan PinoTinderplus
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Pamela Abbott EnzSonoma State University
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Heather WilliamsDona Ana Community College/New Mexico State University
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Kim WeismannUniversity of North Dakota - Williston State College
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Giovonna HandsNone
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rooster fairyNone
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Terri DoepkerBay de Noc Community/Technical College
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Alana InlowWashington State University at Vancouver
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Anne WagnerNipissing University
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Michael HollandGrande Prairie Regional College
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Sara MonteroProfesora
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Daphne JohnOberlin College
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Diane JacksonFerris State University
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Bita AmaniCharles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Materials by Discipline
- Deviance or Social Control (31)
- Foundations of Society (662)
- Global (31)
- Inequalities (64)
- Institutions (24)
- Methodology (31)
- Perspectives or Theoretical (22)
- Population and Urbanization (58)
- Social Change (65)
Professional Organizations
Journals & Publications
Sociology on the Web
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Awkum organises three-day conference on social sciences
Jan 23, 2021 05:06 PM PST
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Kitchen kaleidoscope: Food historian Shylashri Shankar talks about her latest book 'Turmeric Nation'
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Scholarships spark cycle of generosity
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Draft policy to help grow nano, micro enterprises
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Mark DeGarmo Dance Broadcasts its Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change 2020 ...
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TOYM 2020: Pinoy millennials at their finest
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USHA Silai Schools Stitching A Sustainable Future
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Raphael Steger Cattaneo, Ambassador of Mexico and Dean of UDLAP, dies
Jan 23, 2021 11:52 AM PST
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Change Doesn't Happen Overnight, But Research Shows How Social Movements Succeed
Jan 23, 2021 09:25 AM PST
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USENET could help MSMEs scale up
Jan 23, 2021 04:56 AM PST
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Cambridge University launches foundation year program for disadvantaged students
Jan 23, 2021 04:54 AM PST
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Writing in the Social Sciences - Western University
Jan 22, 2021 10:42 PM PST
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Nostalgia: Barrow sixth-formers prove they had an eye for fashion back in 1994
Jan 22, 2021 08:52 PM PST
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Sheldon Leroy Summers "Riley
Jan 22, 2021 11:18 AM PST
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Everything you need to know about Biden inauguration poet Amanda Gorman
Jan 21, 2021 02:00 AM PST
Sociology on Twitter
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- "Native children have a unique set of legal protections due to tribal sovereignty. While the ICWA combats the legac… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…9 hours ago | TheSocietyPages
- "I have been studying vaccine refusal and the ways individual rights and community responsibilities are bound toget… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…12 hours ago | TheSocietyPages
- Interview with sociologist @rachelsherm about class, inequality, and what it means to be a “good” rich person. vox.com/22241343/middl…16 hours ago | ASAnews
- RT @SociusJournal: NEW #OA #DataVisualization - "The Racial Gap in Employment and Layoffs during COVID-19 in the United States: A Visualiza…16 hours ago | SocImages
- "Native children have a unique set of legal protections due to tribal sovereignty. While the ICWA combats the legac… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | TheSocietyPages
- RT @wmannin: Wonderful to have Dr. Alondra Nelson (a sociologist) in this important position. @alondra twitter.com/asanews/status…1 day ago | ASAnews
- A little fun going into the weekend. This is from a colleague's son's book collection. #sociology Start 'em young. https://t.co/S21luV7zCK, photo: pic.twitter.com/S21luV7zCK1 day ago | ASAnews
- "Since the January 6 Assault on Capitol Hill... many draw from fundamental sociological lessons to make sense of vi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | TheSocietyPages
- RT @sundaysociology: @ASAnews "There are several reasons why people would post potentially incriminating videos and selfies from the Capito…1 day ago | ASAnews