References
Every course here is written against a named anchor text — one standard work whose terminology and topic boundaries the course follows — and checked against a secondary witness written independently of it. Where the two disagree, the course follows the anchor and says so at the entry where the disagreement lands. These are the texts for Sociology.
- Anchor
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OpenStax, Introduction to Sociology 3e (senior contributing authors Tonja R. Conerly, Kathleen Holmes, Asha Lal Tamang). Pinned to the live web edition revised July 20, 2026. Twenty-one chapters, all mapped.
- Secondary witness
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Steven E. Barkan, Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World (Saylor Academy 2016 / LibreTexts / Open Textbook Library). Independently authored, of non-OpenStax lineage.
Naming the anchor is not a claim of endorsement by its publisher, and the course is not affiliated with any of the works above. Openly licensed texts carry their licence beside them; the rest are cited, not reproduced.