A free, interactive sociology course: foundations and great themes, and contemporary social processes.
A sociology course in two units: foundations and the great themes — the birth of the discipline, Comte, Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Tönnies, population, family, gender and sexuality, work, culture and education, deviance, class and mobility; and contemporary social processes — modernity and postmodernity, globalisation, the welfare state, gendered labour markets, inequality and exclusion, education, migration, intimacy and the life course.
2 units · 20 lessons · 299 practice questions · 7 languages · free on the web and Android
Start this course freeSociology I introduces the discipline through its founders and its central questions, in short lessons each followed by practice questions with instant feedback — many of them asking you to read data or apply a concept to a case.
The first unit covers the birth of sociology, Comte and Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Tönnies, the profession, population, family, gender and sexuality, work and labour markets, culture, socialisation and education, integration, anomie and deviance, and class and mobility. The second unit analyses contemporary processes: modernity and postmodernity, globalisation, the crisis of the welfare state, gender and work, inequality, poverty and exclusion, education and mobility, migration, intimacy, and family and the life course.
Every lesson explanation in Sociology I is free to read on the web. Practice questions and interactive scenes are in the app.
Yes. Sociology I is free on Tryals, on the web and on Android.
2 units, 20 lessons and 299 practice questions. It is self-paced: each lesson is short, followed by questions with instant feedback, and your progress is saved across devices.
English, Catalan, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. You can switch language inside the app.
Yes. Comte, Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Tönnies each appear in the lessons on how the discipline was founded.
No. The course starts from how sociology became a discipline.