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Sociology

New Featured book! Introductory Sociology by Open Doors Group. Order a BoundCopy This book is suitable for an introductory sociology class. It has already been adopted by educators at 4 colleges, and is presented as 21 short self-contained Chapters, plus Glossary.

	The Art of Community (CC-BY-NC-SA) BoundCopy
	Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (PD)
	eSource: Behavioral and Social Science Research (PD)
	Internet for Sociology (CC-BY-NC)
	Introduction to Social Network Methods (custom license)
	Introducing Social Work Practice (CC-BY-NC-SA)
	Introduction to Sociology* (wikibook)(CC-BY-SA)
	Introduction to Sociology (CC-BY) BoundCopy
	Introductory Sociology (CC-BY) Adopted BoundCopy
	Intro to Sociology* (CC-BY) Adopted (See video of endorsement)
	Living in a Globalised World (CC-BY-NC-SA)
	The Meaning of Crime (CC-BY-NC-SA)
	Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text (CC-BY) BoundCopy
	Negation: Essays in Critical Thinking (CC-BY-NC-ND)
	The Social in Social Science (CC-BY-NC-SA)
	Reading Evidence *(CC-BY-NC-SA)
	Social Problems: Who Makes Them? (CC-BY-NC-SA)
	Sociology by Boundless.com (CC-BY-SA)
	Sociology of the Family (CC-BY)
	Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Brief Ed. (CC-BY-NC-SA) BoundCopy
	Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Comprehensive Ed. (CC-BY-NC-SA) BoundCopy
	The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (PD)

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