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TSS Online Materials---Sociology 204

These materials are REQUIRED READING.
Think of them as a "free" reader...which you didn't have to actually buy.
(If any links don't work properly please let me know...Thanks)

Shepard Chapter 1---The Sociological Perspective

Shepard Chapter 2---Social Research

Shepard Chapter 3---Culture

Shepard Chapter 7---Deviance

Shepard Chapter 5---Social Structure & Society AND Shepard Chapter 4---Socialization

Shepard Chapter 6---Groups...

Conclusion
































Chapter 1---The Sociological Perspective

Course Objectives for Sociology 204

Definition of Sociology
My working definition of Sociology

Why Study Sociology?

Berger Chapter 8 Outline

Berger Chapter 1 Outline

Sociological Concepts
We'll spend a bit of time going over these...please read carefully

Handwritten notes on The Sociological Imagination
My own "scribblings" taken while reading "The Promise"...kind of an outline of ideas...with quotes

Organicism

Paradigms
Short article...excellent ideas

Berger Chapter 2 Outline

Motifs of Sociological Consciousness

Levels of Analysis/Reality

Thomas Theorem/Definition of Situation

Sociological Meta-Theories

Sociological Paradigms

Sociological Theoretical Perspectives

Marx Biographical Sketch

Marx's Humanist Radicalism

Karl Marx: General Overview

What is Social Action?...by Max Weber







































Chapter 2---Social Research



Commonsense Sayings

General Issues in Science & Research Methods

Methods Chart

Milgram's Obedience Experiment

Fromm's Critique of Milgram's Experiment

Tearoom Trade
A controversial "participant observation" study...sensitive subject for some people.

Laud Humphreys and the Tearoom Sex Study





















Chapter 3---Culture



Body Ritual Among the Nacerima

The Case Against Competition

Gender Allocation in 224 Cultures

Epistemology and Logic

-----Notes on Formal Logic

-----Notes on Dialectical Logic

-----Dialectics as Method

-----Effects of Logic System in Everyday Life




























Chapter 7---Deviance



Berger's Mechanisms of Social Control

Labeling Theory Chart



















Chapter 5---Social Structure & Society



Berger Chapter 4 Outline

Institutions

Mills' Structural Model

Human Liberation Poem

Lost in a Masquerade

Types of Societies

Twenty Statements Test (TST) and Guidelines

Chapter 4---Socialization



Berger Chapter 5 Outline

Looking-Glass-Self

Quiet Rage Video Sheet

Pathology of Imprisonment

Stanford Prison Experiment Home & Slideshow

Stanford Prison Experiment: Still Powerful after all these Years

Berger Chapter 6 Outline





































Chapter 6---Groups...



Groupthink
Slide display...brief but good

Groupthink: How Harmful is it Really?
A very different "take" on Groupthink...a very interesting site about the future of our society and humanity in general

Short Essay on "Groupthink"
More traditional treatment of Groupthink

Groupthink Model

























Conclusion



A Call to Celebration

The Future is Now