... Short Readings and Lecture Notes . Selected These are short readings to help you digest the study of Sociology. ........ Documents Included in the Classical Sociologists Module Three Classical Sociologists  Dialectical Materialism  Durkheim and Weber  Emile Durkheim  Karl Marx   Marx and Weber  Max Weber  Weber on Change  .. Documents Included in the Perspectives Module Sociological Perspectives Everyday Things; Sociological Perspective  Eye of the Beholder; Sociological Perspective Is Culture Inside Us or Outside Us? The Meaning of Culture  Nacirema (Have you heard of them before?) Poker Game, a metaphor for sociological perspective Sociological Perspective Strange Fish; key word this site  Superorganic; another view of culture Web References Introductory Sociology .. Documents Included in this Dimensions Module Dimensions of Culture Change and the Dimensions  Culture, Symbols and Dimensions  Dimensions of Culture  The Economic Dimension of society  The Institutional Dimension   The Political Dimension  The Technological Dimension   The Values Dimension   The Worldview Dimension (beliefs)  .. Documents Included in the Socialization Module Education and Socialization  An Aural Method to learn an oral language  Education  Gender and Language  Sapir and Whorf; language and perception of reality  Social Promotion; failing grades, passing students  Socialization, Chickens and Eggs  Student Discussion (Reality TV)  Student Discussion (Socialization)  Student Discussion (Secondary Socialization)  Who Should Pay to Raise Children? .. Documents Included in the Family Module Family and Kinship  Akan Case Study; lecture notes on matriliny  Akan Covert Gynocracy, hidden status of women  Divorce. Discussion  Families in First Nations, Visible Minorities and Immigrants  Family Politics  Home vs Work Conflict  Homosexuality  Incest Taboo  Love and Marriage  Marriage Terminology  Nuclear Family; discussion  Seven Biases in Family Literature  Web References  Sociology of Family and Community Preliminary Family Data Social Indicators of Family; Ethnography  Thesaurus, Family Using the Six Dimensions in Family Research .. Documents Included in the Community Module Sociology of Communities  Family and Community (outline)  Community    Community Based Social Work in Refugee Camps  Community Characteristics  Elements of Strength    Preliminary Community Data  Questions on Community Based Social Work  Sociology of Communities; an introduction  Thesaurus, Community  Web References  Textbook  Web References for Family and Community  What is Community?    .. Documents Included in the Inequality Module Inequality, Age, Race, Sex  Age, Race and Sex; socio-bio interface  Elders  Factors of Poverty; The Big Five  Gender Division of Labour among the Akan  Gender for the Community Mobiliser  Glass Ceiling; Glass  Elevator  Global Stratification  Inequality  Power of Suns in the Sixties  Racial Categories and Biology  Vertical Mosaic  .. Documents Included in the Religion Module The Sociology of Religion  Akan Religion pre Christian gods and ancestors  Notes on Religion (beliefs and social organization)  .. Documents Included in the Change Module Culture Change and Social Change  Cities and Urbanization  From Cult to Religion  Cultural Evolution   Culture and Social Animation  Mosaic or Melting Pot?  Neo Gemeinschaft  So You Want to Preserve Your Culture?  Social Change  .. Documents Included in the Crime and Deviance Module Crime and Deviance  Criminal Sentence Purposes  Deviance  Female Genital Mutilation  Good Guys versus Bad Guys  Law as a Tool of Oppression  Restorative Justice  So What About Corporations?  Techniques of Neutralization  .. Documents Included in the Demography Module Demography and Sociology Age Pyramid and the Dependency Ratio  Demography  .. Documents Included in the Community Research Module Community Research  Measuring Strength    Methods of Participatory Appraisal  Preliminary Family and Community Data  Six Plus Two  Sixteen Elements of Strength; (Family, Organization or Community)  Sixteen Elements explicated  Social Indicators of Family or Community; Ethnography  Social Research for Mobilisers  and Using the Six Dimensions in Family Research .. Documents Included in the Social Research Module Sociological Research  Applied Research Methods  Kinds of Research Methods  Knowing   Measuring Strength or Capacity  Participant Observation  Problems of Prediction and Cause  Techniques of Sampling  Unobtrusive Measures; and  Why Obo? (Choosing a research subject)  .. . Akan and Kwawu Studies: The Akan are a matrilineal group of societies speaking the same language, who live in the West African tropical rain forest of southern Ghana and Ivory Coast.  The Kwawu is one of those Akan societies. Akan Studies (Covert Gynocracy; Forty Days; Sacred Ancestral Linguist Staff; The Ubiquitous Oil Palm; Slides); ....... Documents Included in the Reference Module References Archive URLs The Dead Sociologists Society Discussions Glossary; Learn Some Vocabulary Quotations Archives Sociology; Entry in Wilkipedia  Sociology and Research Links Thesaurus, Society  Web References Social Organization and Social Structure Web References Sociology of Family and Community and When writing, avoid Writing Errors  ..... Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Sociological topics Eating with Friends  and Rites of Passage ........

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