Institution: OpenStax College

Keywords: aging, assembling perspective, authority, bureaucracies, collective behavior, conflict theory, conformity, crime, culture, demography, deviance, discrimination, diversity, economy, education, emergent-norm perspective, Emile Durkheim, environment, ethics, ethnicity, experiment, family, feminist theory, field research, formal organizations, functionalism, gender, global inequality, globalization, government, health, in-groups, Karl Marx, marriage, Max Weber, McDonaldization, medicine, minority groups, modernization, out-groups, politics, population, power, queer theory, race, religion, resocialization, sanctions, sex, social change, social class, social control, social movements, social stratification, social structure, socialization, sociology, stereotypes, survey, symbolic interactionism, urbanization, value-added perspective

Summary: Introduction to Sociology was written by teams of sociology professors and writers and peer-reviewed by college instructors nationwide. The textbook was developed for OpenStax College as part of its Open Educational Resources initiative. This free online text meets standard scope and sequence requirements and incorporates current events such as ... four-year school. [Expand Summary] Introduction to Sociology was written by teams of sociology professors and writers and peer-reviewed by college instructors nationwide. The textbook was developed for OpenStax College as part of its Open Educational Resources initiative. This free online text meets standard scope and sequence requirements and incorporates current events such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. The text is designed for the Introduction to Sociology course at any two- to four-year school. [Collapse Summary]

Keywords: Hidden curriculum, Peer group

Summary: Learn the roles of families and peer groups in socialization Understand how we are socialized through formal institutions like schools, workplaces, and the government

Keywords: Activity theory, Age stratification theory, Continuity theory, Disengagement theory, Exchange theory, Gerotranscendence, Modernization theory, Selective optimization with compensation, Subculture of aging theory

Summary: Compare and contrast sociological theoretical perspectives on aging

Keywords: Beliefs, Folkways, Formal norms, Ideal culture, Informal norms, Language, Mores, Norms, Real culture, Sanction, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Social control, Symbols, Values

Summary: Understand how values and beliefs differ from norms Explain the significance of symbols and language to a culture Explain the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Discuss the role of social control within culture

Keywords: Aggregate, Category, Expressive function, Group, In-group Instrumental function, Out-group, Reference groups, Secondary groups

Summary: Understand primary and secondary groups as the two sociological groups Recognize in-groups and out-groups as subtypes of primary and secondary groups Define reference groups