The new textbook is a heavily edited version of an open-source sociology textbook that removed chapters on race and ethnicity, social stratification, and gender, sex and sexuality. Sociology faculty at Florida International University are outraged that their department is requiring them to use a state-approved textbook to teach an introductory course as part of the university’s general education curriculum. Furthermore, the textbook—a heavily edited version of an open-source sociology textbook titled Introduction to Sociology 3e—now makes only cursory mentions of important sociological concepts regarding race, gender, sexuality and other topics that have drawn Republican ire. “ [Students] will be getting a sociology text, a sociology course without a soul,” Matthew Marr, an associate professor of sociology at FIU who has refused to teach the course this semester, said at an FIU Faculty Senate meeting last week. To that end, he said the provost and dean “requested” that the department use the state-approved course materials this semester.