In the textbook used by many Florida higher education students for the Introduction to Sociology course last semester, the opening lines on the chapter titled 'Race and Ethnicity' hit close ...

Florida International University faculty are pushing back against the state over a newly mandated introductory sociology textbook, shortened to remove or reduce coverage of topics such as race, ...

Much of the violence found in introductory sociology textbooks has little instructional purpose, according to UB researchers who analyzed the popular textbooks that many colleges and universities use ...

Marsiglio, a UF sociology professor who has taught the introductory course for four decades, said the revised textbook is an “affront on academic freedom.” ...

Faculty at the Florida International University are raising alarms that a new state-mandated curriculum for a sociology course “does not accurately represent the field” and that a new textbook edited ...

A sk a sociology professor what students get out of the discipline’s introductory course, and you’re likely to hear that they gain an understanding of the way social dynamics shape behavior and learn ...

Covers basic concepts for the study of primitive and modern society, social processes operating in human groups, personality development in various societies, major institutional groupings, and social ...