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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out far one can go”
Stratification is like a ladder. We see lower rungs and higher rungs. To get up the...
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“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
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How does Social Learning apply to your life?
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What influences our behavior...
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Nature vs. Nurture
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If Men got pregnant...
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Education = gender, race, and social class sorting machine
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Our culture is a major part of our socialization. Our specific culture, whether it be the...
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Notes on the Family, Work and Roles
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The hand of cards...
Our playing field is the situation we are born into and how it affects us. It...
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SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
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Sexual Orientation and Social Inequality
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Sexual Orientation and Social Inequality
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Lecture Notes on Culture
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THE FAMILY and “PLAYING FIELD”
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Social Stratification
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Inequality in Education
If we look at the history of education we can clearly see that there...
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Health and Illness
Health risks are unevenly distributed in the United States and around the world. Social...
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Deviance and Social Control
Every year on Halloween night in a small town in Central California something happens....
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Intro to Sociology
WHAT IS SOCIETY? When we say “a group of people who share territory and...
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Science and Technology
Have science and technology solved social problems? Or have science and technology created social...
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Bureaucracy and Formal Organizations
Application of “Bureaucracy and Formal Organizations” A good example of bureaucracy is the movie,...
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Education Lecture
Malcolm X tells the story of what he was told by...