MERLOT Materials

What is race? Does everyone think about race in the same way? How did the concept of "race" evolve?

This page is part of a larger website of sociological teaching material. Assignments located on this page include:... see more

This short animated fiction book describes a woman named Rebecca and her experiences of family violence. This book... see more

This site explores the complex area of death and dying in American culture. The site is replete with links to numerous... see more

In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that... see more

Intimate Relationships and Families is a digital textbook used for the course SOCI 103 by a California Community College,... see more

This is a textbook designed for a Sociology class in Women's Studies.

This collaborative, open educational resource brings together a collection of short pedagogical texts that help new... see more

What does it mean to be media literate in today’s world? How are we transformed by the many media infrastructures around... see more

This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical, social... see more

Zunal.com provides a format for facilitating WebQuests in all levels of online learning. This WebQuest entitled "B+" asks... see more

This assignment provides students the ability to understand cultural universals and apply them using a structural... see more

This video presents an Introduction to Feminist Counselling. Emphasizing an anti-oppressive framework, critical... see more

This model of the macroeconomy (closed social system) is as comprehensive as possible without it being too complicated... see more

An OER Ethics Reader contains several foundational philosophical readings in the area of ethics. Readers will trace the... see more

This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the... see more

Drawing from disciplines such as corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, semiotics, history, and philosophy, this... see more

Discussions about the ‘crisis of representative democracy’ have dominated scholarly and public discourse for some time... see more

The OER white paper project Dr. Gary embarked on covered the following topics: LGBTQIAA+ key terms, gender nonconforming... see more

Education plays a key role in preventing crime and promoting a culture of lawfulness that supports human rights and... see more

In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones... see more

Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country’s rise to a... see more

NationMaster is a huge database of statistics comparing the different countries of the world. The interactive format... see more

In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens... see more