SOC 100 | Intro to Sociology | OER Course Hub
A collection of open teaching and learning materials curated by BMCC faculty
We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — This is a wonderful TED Talk (there is a transcript as well).
Miss Representation — Available on Kanopy; the extended trailer gives a good overview.
Huggies ad “Boys and Girls are Different” — good for showing the difference between sex and gender.
Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000, by Gus Wezerek and Kristen R. Ghodsee (New York Times)
Race: The Power of an Illusion — available on Kanopy; this three part, three hour documentary is fantastic as a whole, but you can also use just one episode. Alternatively, there are great clips from each episode on YouTube: Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3.
True Colors — this old ABC News experiment still really resonates with students:
Race and Redlining, NPR — Very good overview of redlining and institutional racism.
Netflix Explained: Racial Wealth Gap
C. Wright Mills’ “The Promise” (Chapter 1 of his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination) is a great introduction to the concept of the sociological imagination and a sociological perspective.
Karl Marx, “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (Chapter 1 “Bourgeois and Proletarian” is a good excerpt)
Thought.Co, Major Sociological Theories (by Ashley Crossman) — This is a list of major sociological theories/theoretical approaches with links to ThoughtCo articles on each.
Horace Miner, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” — This is a classic article for SOC 100 students that helps to explain and understand ethnocentrism.
FacingtheFuture.org has also prepared a Nacirema lesson with a short excerpt from the full article that can be useful and turned into a low-stakes, in-class (or online in breakout rooms) assignment.
George Herbert Mead, “The Social Self” — This is a short overview of Mead’s concept of the social self and the “I” and “me”.
Erving Goffman, “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” — This is a classic work by Goffman that gives an overview of his theory of social interaction. This is a link to the whole book, but an excerpt could be assigned.
Erving Goffman, “On Face-Work” — This is a short, fairly accessible piece by Goffman.
George Ritzer, “The McDonaldization of Society” (Introduction), a reading about Groups and Organizations
Emile Durkheim, “The Functions of Crime” — This is a brief overview of the functionalist understanding of crime and deviance.
Visualizing Social Stratification in the US, Thoughtco.com — This is a useful overview of social stratification with charts/data.
Forced Out: For Many Poor Americans Eviction Never Ends, Matthew Desmond, The New Yorker — This is an excellent, accessible excerpt from Desmond’s book Evicted that gives a good overview of structural causes of poverty and housing insecurity.
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