Sociology Free Audio & Video

Susan Cain is a former corporate lawyer and negotiations consultant -- and a self-described introvert. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts, notes Cain in her new book Quiet.

In this lecture Professor Michael Drout focuses on language as a whole and how it develops and is learned. He points out the amazing ability that children have for speaking and comprehending a language...

This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking.

Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce - and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois.

How you understand the messages sent to you is shaped in large part by your culture and subcultures—the contexts in which you learned "normal" ways of seeing and hearing the world around you.

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes.

This course provides a sampling of problems and methods used by sociologists, with concrete examples from everyday life, history, and contemporary events.

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice.

New York City, growing from the small Dutch commercial settlement of New Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century into a bustling multi-cultural city of more than 8 million and metropolis of more than 18 million by the twentieth century, is a place with many stories.