
Sociology 101: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives
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Narrated by:
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Alicia Simmons
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By:
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Alicia Simmons
Across the nation, Americans are undergoing an intense period of self-examination. How are our identities and behaviors shaped by the groups to which we belong? How can we reach past our own biases to better understand others? The study of sociology can help us answer these questions, making us better citizens in the process.
In 21 engrossing lectures, sociology Professor Alicia Simmons (PhD, Stanford), shows you how to use scientific theories and methods to understand the social world. Later, you’ll learn how culture, socialization, social structures, patterns of interaction, and consequences of social deviance inform our decisions and actions.
You’ll also explore the structures of inequality that shape American society. How are categories such as class, gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity created and reproduced by society, and how do these designations correspond with people’s life chances? You’ll look at social institutions, focusing on large-scale social systems that profoundly impact individuals’ lives. Last, a section on social change describes how social landscapes shift, as well as how they stay the same.
Throughout, Professor Simmons encourages you to investigate your own social boundaries, discovering the degree to which social forces impact your own behavior.
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Excellent basics of sociology in our culture
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Short, textbook like read
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A side note, since academic philosophers haved failed us (and continue to do so), a new philosophy has arisen outside of academia that does adequately answer the deepest, broadest questions, and that philosophy is the Philosophy of Broader Survival (read it).
So this book clearly presents Sociology, but in all of its flaws (weak classification systems, incorrect interpretations of numbers, being a pliable tool for twisted agendas).
So sociology is a field of study of 'What is happening at the surface' and not a field of study of 'Why it is happening at the deepest and broadest level'', and definitely not as a 'And here is the correct solution' field (which philosophy should be, though again, academic philosophers have failed us and continue to fail us, enter the Philosophy of Broader Survival. The professor offers advice at the end, but in trite, clueless (read the philosophy) platitudinal form.
Good Presentation, Though...
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