Social Sciences Textbooks
Introduction to Political Science Research Method - 1st Editions
Contributors: Franco, Lee, and Vue
Publisher: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
License: CC BY-NC
Welcome to the official website for Introduction to Political Science Research Methods and Polimetrics: A Stata Companion to Introduction to Political Science Research Methods workbook!
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Fundamentals of Human Geography
Copyright Year: 2023
Contributor: Cheung
Publisher: Wing Cheung
License: CC BY
Fundamentals of Human Geography is a college-level digital textbook aimed at introducing undergraduate students to the field of human and cultural geography.
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Practicing and Presenting Social Research
Contributors: Robinson and Wilson
Publisher: University of British Columbia Library
License: CC BY-NC
This open-access textbook is for those who want to write exemplary social research. It provides an extensive outline of each step of the research process: outlining practical tools for conceptualizing its beginnings, generating proposals, getting ethics approval, relaxing from the stresses of research, writing academically, conducting a literature review, drafting a methods section, collecting the right data, formulating the findings, and sharing the results. Woven throughout each chapter are testimonies of other students who have likewise persevered through the research process, relating their obstacles, solutions, and motivations to each stage of the research process to illuminate not only the technical goals of research, but also the emotional maturity that research entails.
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Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: McNeill, Stephens, and Walker
Publisher: Wayne State University Library System
License: CC BY-NC
Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning is an openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbook for clinical-based nursing educators covering barriers in urban health and their impact on patient health outcomes. The authors explore perspectives of urban communities, urban patients, and urban healthcare providers to offer insight into how healthcare providers can address disparities in urban healthcare, provide meaningful care with the lived experiences of urban patients in mind, and improve patient-provider communication by moving towards a more solution-driven, team-based care approach. Features include learning activities, exemplars, and case studies.
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Critical Perspectives on Technology and the Family
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributor: Walker
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
License: CC BY-NC
From the perspective of a long time family practitioner, researcher, and educator, and technology innovator, this textbook offers the first comprehensive view of technology in the family for college students, professionals and the public. Each chapter offers content and a complete reference list, learning activities, ideas for critical blog posting and additional readings. The beginning chapters cover foundational information about our societal use of information and communications technology, family theories and ways of understanding families, and how families differ in their use and access to ICT. The main body of the book (chapters 4-10) covers elements of the family from couple relationships and dating apps, to children’s use and impacts on development from early childhood through young adulthood, use by parents and in the parent-child relationship, shared use by family members, and then topics important to family life: work-family balance and health and financial management and technology. The end of the book pivots to look closely at use by family professionals, the competencies needed to integrate technology into practice, and policy as a proactive and systemic avenue for change. End of book material include an additional reading list and recommended web content, social media and thought leaders. The authors lends her ideas on teaching for critical thinking with an overview at the beginning of the book, and classroom assessment ideas (actually short ways to engage learners in critical thinking activities).
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A People’s History of Structural Racism in Academia: From A(dministration of Justice) to Z(oology)
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Rahman, Sunder, and Jackson
Publisher: Susan Rahman
License: CC BY
The contents of this book were developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
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Sexuality, the Self, and Society
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Rahman, Bowman, and Jackson
Publisher: Susan Rahman
License: CC BY
Content included in Sexuality, the Self, and Society is aligned with the typical scope for an introductory, interdisciplinary Human Sexuality Textbook. It is written to be a complete text for a semester length course but could be used, in part, reorganized, or edited in true OER fashion. It is meant to be accessible, relevant, and inclusive. It also will not remain static meaning that the author will continue to update periodically and those who adopt may do so as they see fit.
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Introduction to Human Sexuality
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Goerling and Wolfe
Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This is an introductory human sexuality textbook.
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Intercultural Communication for the Community College (Second Edition) - Second Edition
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributor: Krumrey
Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Intercultural Communication for the Community College
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Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Amory, Massey, and Miller
Publisher: State University of New York Press
License: CC BY
Designed for an introductory course, this textbook takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of LGBTQ+ issues that helps students grasp core concepts through a variety of different perspectives.
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