Free Sociology Courses

The main purpose of this course is to answer the question, “How does language relate to the world?” In order to do this we will have to explore a lot of related questions...

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

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

Despite the supposedly homogenizing effects of globalization, people continue to be joined together and divided asunder by the languages they speak, the religions they follow, and the ethnic identities to which they belong.

This course is an introduction to a theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes.

This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s.

The world is comprised of regions—this basic contention, as old as Western civilization, is at once commonsensical and problematic.

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.

In 44 videos, Nicole Sweeney will teach you sociology! This course is based on an introductory college level curriculum, with Sociology, 15th edition, by John J. Macionis as its reference text.

The course deals with the foundations of the social sciences and the differences between social science explanations and natural science explanations.