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Cultural Things Sociology:     more books (100)

Japanese Things; Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travelers and Others. by Basil Hall Chamberlain, 1978-06 Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things by Scott Lash, Celia Lury, 2007-04-27 Children's Games with Things: Marbles, Fivestones, Throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and Pitching, Ball-Bouncing, Skipping, Tops and Tipcat by Iona Opie, the late Peter Opie, 1998-04-23 Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter (Consumption & Space) Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture (School of American Research Advanced Seminar) Things Japanese in Hawaii by John Defrancis, 1973-06 First Things: Reading the Maternal Imaginary by Mary Jacobus, 1995-12-20 Sacred Origins of Profound Things: The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions (Compass) by Charles Panati, 1996-12-01 Universal Kinship: The Bond Between All Living Things The Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone by Mariane Ferme, 2001-09-03 The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa by Ruth Finnegan, 2007-10-01 Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things On Human Thought, Society, and Evolution by Nicole Boivin, 2010-09-30 Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology) by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star, 2000-08-28 A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture by Nancy A. Walker, 1988-11-08

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41. Good Sociology Sites
    INFORMATION PLEASE This is an online Encyclopaedia, with Culture and Society provides a access to sociology resources in the news amongst other things.  
    http://www.le.ac.uk/education/centres/ATSS/sites.html
    
    Extractions: email atss@btconnect.com BRYN HAFREN SCHOOL Bryn Hafren has established itself as the prime site for school sociology in Wales and here they offer resources for GCSE level. CROFTON SCHOOL SOCIOLOGY Follow the links to the Crofton School's Revision Sheets. DAVE HARRIS HOMEPAGE This is a collection of e-handouts and conference papers on sociology, distance education and cultural/media studies. ESOCIOLOGY Notes, Worksheets and TESTS! HEWETT SCHOOL, NORFOLK This contains curriculum support materials for sociologists of Advanced and GCSE level. LEARN SOME STUFF This is the Parrs Wood Technology College site with AS and A2 level information. SOCIOLOGY ONLINE Built by Andy Walker of Dartford Technology College, this has a good number of exercises and online quizzes etc., using Hot Potatoes applications. PAUL POMERANTZ'S PAGES This is a teacher's site with some interesting AS and A2 level information and activities. PETER'S SOCIOLOGY LINKS This offers links to various sites, organised by topic, and suitable for A level and Access sociology students.

42. Sociology Of Culture
    sociology of Culture. The course blog for sociology 8090 When is it importantfor us to take these things into consideration?  
    http://blog.lib.umn.edu/hull/culture/
    
    Extractions: The course blog for Sociology 8090 1. Gusfield looks at "the drinking-driving problem" as "ritual and rhetoric." At several points, he defends this approach by saying he's not trying to discredit an "empirical" approach to the problem, just supplement it. He says he is an "olympian social scientist," who examines multiple viewpoints while privileging none (193). Is this what he's actually doing though? Is he simply presenting an alternative viewpoint to see how "productive" or "useful" it can be? Or is he implicitly claiming that one must integrate these characteristics of social phenomena into your viewpoint in order to get a "better" understanding (even though he prefers the language of "more useful" to "better")? 2. Gusfield incorporates conflict into his dramaturgical analysis, an approach that is sometimes accused of relying too much on consensus. He does so by linking "culture" (ritual and rhetoric) and "structure" (organizations, power and "ownership") (see 161 and 31-3). How exactly are the two linked? Does organizational structure simply set the limits within which cultural forms will be constructed? Or is there a more complicated interaction of the two here? 3. Gusfield is attempting to apply dramaturgical approach to large-scale phenomenon. How does he do this? How well does this work?

43. Social Science Hub - Sociology
    Beauty Worlds The Culture of Beauty All about beauty in nature and cultures SignalerThe social life of things. Developing theories for understanding  
    http://www.sshub.com/soc.htm
    
    Extractions: Infomine: for the social sciences, humanities, and the arts "INFOMINE makes access easy to all types of Internet resources of scholarly use to UC faculty and students interested in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Education, News, General Reference and Library Sciences...The file contains over 900 resources incuding electronic text archives and electronic journals as well as online subject guides, databases and reference resources, among others".

44. Teaching Sociology: Abstracts, Volume 33, Number 1, January 2005
    Enriching sociology 100 Using the Novel things Fall Apart . The novel givesstudents access to a culture very different from their own, allowing them  
    http://www.lemoyne.edu/ts/33tsabstracts3.html

45. Sociology: European And Us Culture - Free Essays, Free Research Papers, Free Ter
    I had never experienced culture shock before, or for that matter ever really There is an open awareness about things. The Television Programs would show  
    http://www.goldenessays.com/free_essays/4/sociology/european-and-us-culture.shtm

46. SOCIOLOGY 530L - CULTURE AND COGNITION
    1) Whereas the old sociology of culture was evaluative in focus In particular,I think we sociologists have at least three things to gain from  
    http://www.princeton.edu/~sociolog/grad/courses/spring1996/soc530tlong.html
    
    Extractions: Instructor: Paul DiMaggio (Click here or at end of file to return to the brief course description and syllabus.) This course is a mini-seminar a half-semester course aimed at exposing students to a broad array of perspectives in a manner that equips them for subsequent independent or group work. Graduate students in departments without the mini-seminar option are welcome to participate, either as auditors or, by arrangement with the instructor for further work, for full-semester credit. Advanced undergraduates with research interests in the field may participate on the same basis with the instructor's permission. The purpose of this seminar is to explore the potential of recent work in the cognitive sciences (especially psychology and anthropology) to inform research and theory in the sociology of culture. The emphasis here is on culture as shared mental structures, rather than as symbol systems external to individuals (although language, practices, and institutionalized culture will naturally come into play). As such, this seminar is part of the Department's graduate "culture track" curriculum, one of a sequence of seminars that address different aspects of the sociology of culture. One might think of its topic as "Micro-Culture," in contrast to the more "macro" cultural emphasis of the standard Sociology of Culture seminar that Professor Lamont has taught. Thus this seminar should be seen not as endorsing a particular "approach" to the sociology of culture, but rather as contributing to a broader multidimensional perspective.

47. Arts And Social Sciences
    Although the study of sociology and anthropology overlaps in a number of areas Anthropology focuses on diverse areas of social and cultural life such as  
    http://www.carleton.ca/cu/ed4life/brochures/soc-anth.html

48. Sociology, Culture, Social Science Books From The University Of
    A catalog of books in sociology. Also on website forty subject catalogs, Hart, Stephen cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics Styles of Engagement  
    http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Subjects/virtual_sociology.html

49. Social Science Dictionary With A Durkheim Bias
    sociology The science of society. See Durkheim and Weber s Contrasting Culture See cultural system as part of human reality and cultural constructs  
    http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/sshglo.htm
    
    Extractions: Society Society is the most general term in modern English for the body of institutions and relationships within which a relatively large group of people live. (Williams, R. 1976) Society may not be visible, but its symbols are. Click on the fishing bird to know more. "every aggregate of individuals who are in continuous contact form a society" "individuals must adhere materially, but it is still necessary that there be moral links between them." (Durkheim, E. 1893/1933 p.276) Individual means something that cannot be divided: a unit complete in itself. In the above quotations it refers to single human beings, which is what we usually mean when we say "an individual". In this sense, sociologists later than Durkheim have spoken of "the self" in relation to society. One can, of course, speak of an individual society.

50. 248
    Soc 248 01 Popular Culture Dynamics, aka The sociology of Culture The Cultureof Fear Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong things.  
    http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/lenajc/248
    
    Extractions: This is a survey course in the sociology of culture. The course will introduce you to the major themes of a field that has "fuzzy boundaries"it is not an institution or social process that can empirically be treated as distinct from others (e.g., family, religion or the economy); it does not have a well-developed and/or relatively standard set of methods that can provide an initial focus for study; and, it is one of the fastest-growing areas of research, and so "canonical texts" are both created and put out-of-vogue rapidly. We approach the field through several traditional theoretical paradigms: Durkheimian, Marxist, Semiotic and Historical Cultural Sociology. Our focus then shifts to units that some would consider theoretical traditions, while others might identify them as "units of analysis:" cultural fields, the production of culture, consumption/reception, and production (the artists' view). We spend the next week considering stratification in the U.S.this will introduce students to several audience studies. We will do two weeks of “case studies:” on ‘trash TV’ and authenticity. The capstone of the course will be two weeks of student presentations on the material covered in Glassner’s book, “The Culture of Fear.”

51. The Blackwell Companion To The Sociology Of Culture - Book Contents
    The Autonomy of Culture and The Invention of the Politics of Small things 1968 Toward a Nonculturalist sociology of Culture On Class and Status in  
    http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/contents.asp?ref=0631231749

52. Colloquia - The Institute For Advanced Studies In Culture
    The cultural changes brought about by commodification are as sweeping and George Ritzer is a Professor of sociology at the University of Maryland where  
    http://www.virginia.edu/iasc/colloquia2003.html
    
    Extractions: HOME One of the most striking transformations of our times has been the elevation of the market as the ideal paradigm of social organization. Indeed, many have understood the political revolutions of the last decade to offer a complete vindication of American-style free and self-regulating markets. For the market promises the most efficient allocation of resources, unmatched production of wealth, and greater liberty. Unfettered markets encourage success, punish failure, and offer the most reliable path to prosperity and the advancement of human freedom. The cultural changes brought about by commodification are as sweeping and complex as they are controversial. Many welcome these changes, trusting in the market's potential to unleash more fully the potential of human creativity. Others are less sanguine and worry about the market's potential to reduce our highest values and our most sacred social idealsits capacity to corrupt various goods and social practices, expose the disenfranchised to greater exploitation and manipulation, and encourage patterns of consumption that put pressure on scarce and vulnerable natural resources. This debate leaves us with a whole range of pressing moral, political, and social questions. What forces, pressures, and cultural changes drive this tendency to commodify? Is anything resistant to commodification? What happens to democracy and political order, marriage and the family, religion and morality, identity and our understanding of the human person when they are conceptualized under market categories? What sorts of psychological and anthropological changes occur when we begin seeing our basic relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world as commodities? Are there any realistic alternatives to a consumer society dominated by commodification?

53. Free Essays - Sociology: European And Us Culture
    sociology European And Us Culture Concept Paper 2 My trip to Europe was an In general though some things were the same. The Police were called Peace  
    http://www.freeessays.tv/d6865.htm
    
    Extractions: My trip to Europe was an eye opening experience. It awakened my senses to so many different aspects of life I had not already been introduced to. It was almost like watching a movie, from the minute I stepped of the plane everything was different. When I think about the trip and what experiences I had many sociological concepts come to mind, such as, Culture shock, ethnocentrism, culture, social locators, cultural transmission, norms, language, and subculture. It seems being placed directly in the middle of something that is so different made it easier to pick out the different concepts. When I first got off the plane I immediately experienced so many different emotions. People were talking all around me. But they all sounded so different. Instead of what I was used to, American accents mixed in with the occasional foreign accent. I was now the foreigner. I never before had experienced anything different than I had been taught; now I got to see with my own eyes what a world there is out side of the United States. I had never experienced culture shock before, or for that matter ever really understood it. When I was in France I noticed how different I was treated by the people there. The majority of people I met were polite because they were friends with the people I was staying with. But the people I met just out and about was rude. Even when I tried my best to talk to them in their language was ignored on some occasions and some just chose not to try to communicate. Once when I was in the post office trying to mail a package home I asked the Man in French is he understood English and in English he replied no. Thought that was interesting that he answered me in a language that he didn’t understand. France more than any country displayed ethnocentrism. They definitely left me with the impression that they did not like Americans in their country.

54. Cultural Anthropology And Sociology Of Non-Western Societies - Dutch Taught Prog
    life seems so much more logical and sensible than other people’s way of doingthings. The bachelor’s programme in cultural Anthropology and sociology of  
    http://www.studeren.uva.nl/regular_programmes/object.cfm/objectID=21F7D775-316D-
    
    Extractions: Application and admission Contents of the programme Culturele antropologie en sociologie der niet-westerse samenlevingen Via the Internet, television and satellites, whenever we want we can view texts and images from all across the globe. In the Netherlands, we are also growing increasingly accustomed to other cultures. Not that we really understand them. We often do not even know how other people spend their days or why. As outsiders, our own way of life seems so much more logical and sensible than other people’s way of doing things. The bachelor’s programme in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Non-Western Societies, often referred to simply as Anthropology, gives students an opportunity to become familiar with other people’s experiences and ideas. It teaches them to better understand and explain the numerous aspects of human societies and cultures. In the first year of the programme, introductory courses are given in anthropology, sociology of non-western societies, and research methods and techniques. An extensive writing course covers the principles of formulating academic reports.

55. Market Share - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Ideas - News
    who studies how cultural attitudes and consumption patterns influence each other.A leading figure in economic sociology, Zelizer is sharply critical of  
    http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/07/24/market_share/
    
    Extractions: Today's Globe Opinion Magazine Education ... Ideas (Globe Illustration / Tomasz Walenta) July 24, 2005 ECONOMISTS HAVE LONG been famous (or notorious) for plunging into such seemingly non-economic topics as crime or marriage. Beginning in the 1960s, University of Chicago economist Gary S. Becker brought economic theory to bear on family life, discrimination, education, and addiction, arguing that incentives, rational choices, and competitive pressures shape all sorts of behavior. He got a Nobel Prize for his efforts. More recently, ''Freakonomics" coauthor Steven D. Levitt, another University of Chicago economist, has earned a place on the best-seller list by popularizing his more empirical work on such sociological topics as the structure of crack gangs and the spread of popular baby names. Levitt says he's ''enthralled by the tools of economics, but never by the questions." While economists continue to probe into social life, a growing academic subfield known as economic sociology is doing just the oppositebringing tools and concepts from sociology to bear on the economy. We cannot understand how people earn, spend, and invest their money, economic sociologists argue, unless we understand social relations. If, as economists contend, incentives and choice are everywhere, so are social conventions and personal connections.

56. Market Share - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Ideas - News
    how cultural attitudes and consumption patterns influence each other. Economic sociology is now normalizing relations between sociologists and the  
    http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/07/24/market_share?mode=PF

57. Book Reviews: Sociology, Psychology, Social Sciences
    Both psychology and sociology influence politics, law, and many more Perhaps one of the most important advances in our cultural evolution has been our  
    http://atheism.about.com/od/bookssociology/
    
    Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Agnosticism / Atheism Book Reviews Books: Social Sciences Atheism Essentials 10 Commandments: News, Analysis Pledge of Allegiance, Under God ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); Sign Up Now for the Agnosticism / Atheism newsletter! See Online Courses Search Agnosticism / Atheism Both psychology and sociology influence politics, law, and many more facets of modern life. Despite this, most people don't entirely understand what sorts of finding modern psychological and sociological research offer. A few of the books published every year dealing with psychology and sociology are skeptical of commonly held beliefs while others providing interesting insight into human nature. Alphabetical Recent Up a category One Planet, One People: Beyond 'Us vs. Them' Human beings have evolved biologically and culturally. Perhaps one of the most important advances in our cultural evolution has been our ability to expand the definition of the 'in' group - the group we consider most deserving of kindness and assistance. Today most people's idea of us is much broader than it was a few thousand years ago. How much further than the circle be increased? Fathering at Risk Parenting may be one of the most difficult jobs that anyone can do, but this doesn’t mean that there is an adequate understanding among psychologists, sociologists, and other researchers about what parenting is and what good parenting requires. This is especially true when it comes to fathers and fathering.

58. Youth Culture And Fashion - Youth In Britain Today: No Change There, Then?
    early on took the deviancy line but things did change as the sociology ofyouth as a Brake, M. (1985) ‘Comparative Youth Culture’ London Routledge  
    http://elt.britcoun.org.pl/y_paper.htm
    
    Extractions: No Change There, Then? Ruth Cherrington Irresponsible teenage mothers with screaming kids, ecstasy-crazed, sweaty ravers, crusty anti-road protesters living in tree houses and the ubiquitous young football hooligans: this is British youth of today. Or is it? Which image is the most appropriate one when considering youth in contemporary Britain? Of course kids do go through bodily changes linked to what is called puberty but what happens socially as a result of these physical changes varies across societies and over periods of time. Therefore, the period of transition from childhood into adulthood known as youth has to be viewed more as a social construct which changes as any given society changes. The changes have been occurring very rapidly in most western societies and they do not usually come problem-free. Youth is, in fact, a problematic period per se in many respects because it is difficult to define or even to say clearly when it begins and when it ends. The recent debate about the lowering of the age of sexual consent for homosexuals in Britain is a pertinent case in point, highlighting the problems of legal definition. It is acceptable to legally have sex at 16 if you are heterosexual but you are supposed to wait until you are 18 if you are gay . It is not the place here to enter that particular debate but it does highlight the problem of delineating youth and involves ideas of responsibility, independent thinking, self-determination and maturity. Adults are supposed to be responsible but youth need a bit more help and time, according to the adults making the laws.

59. Annual Reviews - Error
    UNVERSTÄNDLICH THE POSTHERMENEUTIC TURN IN cultural sociology, Section Text, structure, and action in cultural sociology a commentary on positive  
    http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.11060
    
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60. Sociology Graduate Courses
    448 sociology of Technology and Material Culture. This course will serve as anintroduction to the sociology of things, most notably the sociology of  
    http://www.luc.edu/depts/sociology/gcourse.htm
    
    Extractions: 403, 404 Sociological Perspectives I and II This is a two-course sequence that provides a general examination of major sociological issues, concepts, and perspectives. A range of major substantive fields/topics in sociology will be examined with an emphasis on the linkages and interactions between these. Important theoretical and methodological concerns will be emphasized with particular attention focused on how these concerns affect substantive areas in sociology. The course sequence is required for all students during their first academic year of graduate study in the department. (Henson, Kniss, Langman, Whalley) 405 History of Sociological Theory This is an in-depth analysis of selected major classical theorists in sociology, with special attention to the intellectual roots and the convergence or divergence of concepts and theoretical orientations. Emphasis will be placed on the critical analysis of primary sources and on major trends in the interpretation of these sources; attention will center on selected theorists in Europe and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. (Langman, Whalley) 406 Modern Sociological Theory Detailed examination and analysis of selected modern theorists in sociology, with special attention to major works, centers of influence, and current trends in theory are conducted. Emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of primary sources and on interpretation of the major developments in sociology since World War II. The course assumes a developed understanding of the history of classical sociological theory and a ready familiarity with the authors and works treated in 405. (Langman, , Whalley, Wittner)

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