1. Intra-household Resource Allocation Issues And Methods For The meaning of cultural things on quantitative methods from the perspectives of many disciplines, particularly sociology, psychology, economics http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

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3. Sociology And Cultural Studies (BA) Familiarity with major methods of data collection in sociology, and their appropriate The Allure of things Material Culture and Exchange, V3021, 2, 12 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sociology/LR392U-2005.html

Home A-Z Index People Reference Contact us Sociology Home Admissions Teaching Research ... Programme specifications Sociology and Cultural Studies (BA) 2005-entry Programme aims The overall aim is to produce competent sociologists - with a range of empirical knowledge which they can evaluate and relate to theories, and with a grasp of how to carry out library and field research - whose sociological knowledge is informed by and applied in the context of an understanding of culture in a global and historical and/or a social and political context. They will also be familiar with theories of culture and their application to both `high' and `popular' culture; will have engaged with concepts such as identity, representation, location and hybridity, consumption, production and performance, will have acquired the specific skills relevant to dealing with such cultural material, and will have a critical perspective on both the components of the programme and their interrelations. Programme learning outcomes The programme provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, skills, qualities and other attributes in the following areas: A. knowledge and understanding

4. Sociology Of Consumption: The Meanings Of Things sociology of Consumption The meanings of things. We shall examine the assumption In fact, all consumption is cultural. This signifies several things. http://uk.geocities.com/balihar_sanghera/conmeanings.html

Sociology of Consumption: The meanings of things We shall examine the assumption that consumption is a meaningful activity. Cultural reproduction We do not eat simply to reproduce ourselves physically. In fact, all consumption is cultural. This signifies several things. All consumption is cultural because it always involves meaning : in order to ‘have a need’ and act on it, we must be able to interpret experiences and situations. Cultural meanings are necessarily shared meanings: individual preferences are formed within cultures – we draw on languages, values, rituals, habits, and so on. Consumption is articulated within specific meaningful ways of life: no one eats ‘food’ – they eat apples and biscuits; no one just eats – they eat for lunch and picnic. It is through culturally specific forms of consumption that we produce and reproduce cultures, social relations and indeed society. Individuals act out their membership to a group, and reproduce social relations (e.g. through family meals). The idea that consumption is cultural can take two forms – weak and strong. Culture is an addition to consumption. The consumer culture is the product of affluence, rather than of capitalism. Once basic needs are satisfied, the meaningful or cultural aspect of consumption comes to predominate.

5. UNC Writing Center Handout | Sociology What are the most important things to keep in mind as you write in sociology? Finally, you might want to focus on cultural objects or social artifacts http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/sociology.html

Writing Center Home Make an Appointment Online Tutor UNC Home Writing the Paper Argument Audience Brainstorming College Writing ... Word Choice Specific Writing Assignments Abstracts Annotated Bibliography Application Essays Business Letter ... Speeches Writing for Specific Fields Anthropology Art History Communications Drama ... Sociology Sociology What this handout is about... What is sociology, and what do sociologists write about? So, just what is a sociological perspective? At its most basic, sociology is an attempt to understand and explain the way that individuals and groups interact within a society. How exactly does one approach this goal? C. Wright Mills, in his book The Sociological Imagination (1959), writes that "neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both." Why? Well, as Karl Marx observes at the beginning of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte ( 1852), humans "make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past." Thus, a good sociological argument needs to balance both individual agency and structural constraints. That is certainly a tall order, but it is the basis of all effective sociological writing. Keep it in mind as you think about your own writing.

6. Culture And Identity Texts: Www.sociology.org.uk the cultural significance of identity and territory, amongst other things . at times it reads a bit like the text equivalent of sociology teacher http://www.sociology.org.uk/cmmer.htm

Culture and Identity Culture and Identity D.Abbott (1998) Confused about Culture and Identity? This slim volume provides a concise introduction to various aspects of the topic, relating it to sociological perspectives and areas such as class gender age and ethnicity . Each short section is organised around an " explain and evaluate " cycle, followed by a section summary and a handy Study Guide section. The latter includes suggestions for group work practice questions in data response format and coursework suggestions Activities and study suggestions are also liberally sprinkled throughout the text. Although a lot of the information is necessarily brief , it's also accessible , making this essential reading for teachers and students doing the AEB syllabus Inv estigating Culture and Identity P. Taylor (1997) Part of the " Society In Action " series, this covers the major "culture and identity" syllabus areas ( class gender age and ethnicity ). There are also sections on socialisation semiology and, of course

7. Kearl's Guide To The Sociology Of Death: Death Across Time And Space The Webster s collection of links to crosscultural images of death Ends arethe hardest things in the world to seeprecisely because they aren t http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-1.html

I MAGES A CROSS C ULTURES AND T IME "At birth we cry; at death we see why." Bulgarian proverb "Birth is the messenger of death." Syrian proverb Like the climatologists who so eagerly awaited the close-up photographs of Jupiter and Saturn in order to understand the atmospheric dynamics of earth, we need cross-cultural comparisons in order to comprehend ourselves. "Death" is a socially constructed idea. The fears, hopes, and orientations people have towards it are not instinctive, but rather are learned from such public symbols as the languages, arts , and religious and funerary rituals of their culture. Every culture has a coherent mortality thesis whose explanations of death are so thoroughly ingrained that they are believed to be right by its members. It is here assumed that any broad-scale change in the relationships between the living is accompanied by modifications of these death meanings and ceremonies. The reverse may well also be true: Would there be a rash of suicides if it were to be conclusively verified scientifically that the hereafter is some celestial Disneyland? And what if the quality of one's experiences there was founded to be based on the quality of one's life? Annwfn: The Mythology and Folklore of Death from The City of the Silent Myth in Death and Dying Euphemisms for Death both physical and symbolic (with a dash of humor) T YPOLOGIZING CULTURAL ORIENTATIONS TO DEATH If you were to parachute down into some exotic culture, precisely how would you classify its

8. THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE The first attempts to plot how various social and cultural orders spawn different Thinking of those things about which you are confident that you truly http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/knowledg.html

S OCIOLOGY OF K NOWLEDGE Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos... William Gaddis, JR, p. 25 According to C. Wright Mills, there is a perspective called the " sociological imagination " that can be used to " frame ," or interpret, perceptions of social life. In part, this imagination features a healthy skepticism, assuming that social appearances often aren't what they seem. But even more, this perspective involves an awareness toward the linkages between history and biography, between social structure and consciousness, and between "knowledge" and its socio-cultural contexts. It is this one of this discipline's approaches to critical thinking Perhaps no where is this imagination so exercised than in the sociology of knowledge , which studies the social sources and social consequences of knowledgehow, for instance, social organization shapes both the content and structure of knowledge or how various social, cultural, political conditions shield people from truth. It has been argued that the concept of knowledge is to sociology as the notion of attitude is to psychology: a notion so central that, in many ways, it is the foundation for the entire discipline. (Though written nearly 70 years ago

9. Sociology 350: Social Theory sociology 350 Social Theory Spring 2002. David Price 12, 14) Rethinkingthe Nature of cultural things. Read Harris 13109. Week 6 (Feb. http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/soc350-2002.htm

Sociology 350: Social Theory Spring 2002 David Price Office, Old Main Room 309, Phone: (360) 438-4295 Office Hours Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:30-2:30 PM (and by appointment) dprice@stmartin.edu This course examines a variety of anthropological and sociological theories. Students are exposed to an assortment of theoretical models ranging from economic and ecological theories to symbolic interactive theories. Class time is divided between lectures, student presentations and discussions. Students are expected to attend class lectures and discussions and will regularly be required to present analytical summaries of assigned readings for the class. This class is different every time I teach it, and once again I’m keeping things interesting by using a new collection of books to examine a variety of sociological and anthropological theories. We will use Jerry Moore’s Vision’s of Culture to examine some of the more significant trends in social theory in the past decade and a half. Marvin Harris’ Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times lays out a useful presentation of a materialist social theory, as well as a critique of postmodernism.

10. EServer: Cultural Studies And Critical Theory cultural studies and critical theory combine sociology, literary theory, cultural practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as http://theory.eserver.org/

eserver > cultural studies and critical theory american studies critical legal studies critical theory cultural studies ... women's studies Wecome to the EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection. Cultural studies and critical theory combine sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and/or gender. Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life. Cultural practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. Particular meanings attach to the ways people in particular cultures do things.

11. Sociology Course List other things, contribute to distinctive transformations in the cultural sociology 44. Sport and Society. A crosscultural study of sport in its http://www.amherst.edu/~anthsoc/soclist.html

12. Journal Of Consumer Culture -- Sign In Page Featherstone, M. (1990) ‘Perspectives on Consumer Culture’ , sociology 24(1) Kopytoff, I. (1986) ‘The cultural Biography of things Commoditization as http://joc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/4/2/155

JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT US SUBSCRIPTIONS ... SEARCH QUICK SEARCH: [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year: Vol: Page: This item requires a subscription to Journal of Consumer Culture Online. Bringing Children (and Parents) into the Sociology of Consumption: Towards a Theoretical... Martens et al. Journal of Consumer Culture. This Article Abstract Full Text (PDF) References ... Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager To view this item, select one of the options below: Sign In User Name Sign in without cookies. Can't get past this page? Help with Cookies. Need to Activate? Password Forgot your user name or password? Purchase Short-Term Access Pay per Article - You may access this article (from the computer you are currently using) for 1 day for US$15.00 Pay for Admission - You may access all content in Journal of Consumer Culture Online (from the computer you are currently using) for 24 hours for US$75.00. Regain Access - You can regain access to a recent Pay per Article or Pay for Admission purchase if your access period has not yet expired.

13. The Use Of And Commitment To Goods -- Ilmonen 4 (1): 27 -- Journal Of Consumer C However, in the sociology of consumption, they have been seen as mediating social The Social Life of things Commodities in cultural Perspective, pp. http://joc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/4/1/27

JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT US SUBSCRIPTIONS ... TABLE OF CONTENTS QUICK SEARCH: [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year: Vol: Page: Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 4, No. 1, 27-50 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/1469540504040903 This Article Abstract Full Text (PDF) References ... Citation Map Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Cited by other online articles The Use of and Commitment to Goods Kaj Ilmonen In social theory, goods have usually not been included in the social world. However, in the sociology of consumption, they have been seen as mediating social relations and offering opportunities to make social distinctions. It is precisely the symbolic aspect of goods that makes this possible. In helping to make these distinctions, goods are only given a passive role in our lives. They only get to function as markers of social differences, tastes, and so on. However, the use value of goods cannot be reduced to their symbolic aspect. Generally

14. SHOT--Syllabi--Material Culture Of Technology of Technological Systems New Directions in the sociology and History ofTechnology Week 9 Designing things (2) cultural Aspects (March 21) http://shot.press.jhu.edu/syllabi/Material_Culture_Technology.htm

Material Culture of Technology Steven Lubar University of Pennsylvania Technology consists of knowledge, actions, and things. This course looks at the "thingness" of technology. What does it mean that one end of technology is objects in the world? How does that affect the nature of technological knowledge, technological systems, technological actions? Technological artifacts, like other aspects of material culture, reflect the culture in which they are designed, manufactured, and used. This course examines a variety of approaches to understanding American technological material culture, focusing in particular on manufacturing, domestic technologies, and the industrial landscape. It tries to answer some of the big questions in the history of technology using material evidence. In this course we will review the literature of material culturethe study of things as representations of cultureto see how it might be useful for understanding technological things. We will then look at the ways in which technological things are designed, manufactured, bought and sold, used, and repaired, hoping to gain an improved understanding of the nature of technology. Books available for purchase (at Penn Book Center): George Kubler, The Shape of Time

15. Oxford University Press: How To Do Things With Cultural Theory: Matt Hills You are here OUP USA Home US General Catalog sociology Popular Culture How To Do things With cultural Theory considers how key theories have been http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/PopularCulture/~~/cHI9MT

What are sales promo codes? Keyword ISBN Author Title Corporate You are here: OUP USA Home U.S. General Catalog Sociology How to Do Things with Cultural Theory Matt Hills Add to Cart paper 256 pages Nov 2005, Not Yet Published Price: Shipping Details See more from the series A Hodder Arnold Publication Description Product Details Author Information Description Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learned, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers and consumers outside the University system might all want to theorize what culture is and how it works. Taking its cue from J L Austin's infamous How to Do Things With Words , which argued that language doesn't just reflect the world but is used to achieve things in the world, this book approaches cultural theory as something to be used, performed, adapted, transformed and created in new contexts by its own consumer-producers. How To Do Things With Cultural Theory considers how key theories have been constructed and written, treating theory as a text to be analyzed. What narratives recur across different cultural theories? And what does it mean to construct one's cultural identity as a "theorist"? Addressing the cultural and subcultural identities that "theory" generates and sustains, this book asks what desires, fantasies, ideals and politics drive people to become "cultural theorists." As well as analyzing the production and circulation of theory, this book also tackles the thorny question of how best to read theory. Despite being what lecturers and students spend much of their time doing, the act of reading theory has typically been taken for granted or rendered invisible within cultural theory itself.

16. 04-05 Gallaudet Catalog: Sociology Among other things, sociology looks at how groups influence individual SOC,268, cultural Anthropology (3). SOC, 313, The sociology of Occupations (3) http://admissions.gallaudet.edu/bloa/0405catalog/2004/08/sociology_1.html

General Information Application Procedures Counselors and Staff Student Finanical Aid ... FAQ Back to Admissions Main Sociology Dr. Sharon Barnartt, Chair Hall Memorial Building, Room S-133 The Department of Sociology provides a variety of courses to meet the needs of students majoring in sociology as well as students seeking to satisfy their general studies requirements. Sociology is an important part of a liberal arts education, and students interested in elective courses to complete their degree requirements will find many upper-division sociology courses that complement courses offered in other departments. Sociology is a social science that is concerned primarily with studying social behavior and human groups. Among other things, sociology looks at how groups influence individual behavior, how groups cooperate or conflict with one another, and how societies are established and change. Sociologists are also concerned with social problems that occur in societies such as crime, racial and sexual discrimination, poverty, and inadequate health care. Sociology emphasizes how various forms of social organization (rather than bad people ) contribute to problems such as these. The department offers a general major in sociology as well as a major in sociology with a concentration in criminology. Minors are available in sociology and criminology. A major in sociology provides a basis for graduate study in sociology, law, criminology, and related fields. Undergraduate training in sociology is also valuable for students interested in social work, secondary school teaching, business careers, and careers in public service.

17. Digital Culture And Sociology. Susana Tosca cultural studies of identity and interactivity on the Internet. I will goover the different topics of the course and see how things relate to each http://www.it-c.dk/courses/DDKS/E2004/courseplan.htm

by Susana Tosca Assistant Professor Dept. Digital Aesthetics and Communication Center for Computer Games Research Autumn 2004 DKM Study Program IT-U niversity of Copenhagen home courseplan exercises exam Courseplan This courseplan is work in progress. Please check it everyweek for additions. It will contain lecture slides and other material. For specific material and explanation concerning exercises, please go to the exercises page. Unless otherwise indicated, all readings can be found in the kompendium or the web. The week before each session the teacher will email students in the course introducing the readings and exercises for next session so that they can prepare accordingly and for example know which readings are prioritary, etc. tba- to be announced CS- case study date theme readings materials exercises Introduction - Sardar/Van Loon. 1998.

18. Gettysburg College-Sociology & Anthropology Link to gettysburg college sociology and anthropology homepage ANTH 301Social Life of things Crosscultural exploration of how members of various http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/sociology_anthropology/soc-anthro-courses.ht

Our Program Faculty/Staff Anthropology Courses Sociology Courses ... Web Resources Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Dr. Sandra K. Gill Gettysburg College 300 N. Washington St. Campus Box 412 E-mail: sgill@gettysburg.edu Anthropology Courses Learning Goals : Anthropology classes are designed to help students meet a number of specific learning goals linked to the Gettysburg Curriculum. Faculty also aim to teach students the communication conventions of the discipline. Click here to learn more about these Distribution requirements: All full-credit anthropology courses may be used to meet the College's Multiple Inquiries goals in the Social Sciences, except 300-level theory and methods courses ( ANTH 300 and ANTH 323 ). In addition, the following Anthropology courses fulfill the Non-Western Cultures distribution requirement:

19. Looking At Drugs, Drug Effects, And Classifications: More Sociology Looking At Drugs, Drug Effects, and Classifications More sociology Basically Drugs are Social, cultural, and Symbolic things. http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/180/defindrg.html

Looking At Drugs, Drug Effects, and Classifications: More Sociology (See: Drugs in American Society , 5th and 6th editions, Erich Goode, McGraw-Hill, 1999/2005. Chapter 1 Long History of Drug Use in Human Societies ETOH: 10,000 years Coca: Thousand's of years Marijuana: over 10,000 years Peyote: Pre-Columbian Drug Use is a Cultural Universal Only Inuit Eskimos have no record of traditional Drug use And, this changed when contact with Europeans was established Most, if not all, societies integrate drug use into accepted, sometimes ritualistic, cultural patterns of behavior Drug use seems to be a vital part of everyday social interaction Use of Psychoactive Substances is MASSIVE in Modern Society Over 2.4 billion prescriptions are written in the USA each year@$100 billion OTC Sales (USA) @$15 billion Over 50% of Americans report having used Alcohol (etoh) within the past month About 25% of Americans smoke cigarettes (multiple times a day) About 32% of Americans have tried marijuana (90 million).

20. John Law - Sociology At Lancaster University its enthusiasm for a mix of cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, I also increasingly think about and appreciate the elusive, things that don t http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/staff/law/law.htm

Skip Links Access/General info Site Map County College South, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1524 594178 Fax: +44 (0) 1524 594256 E-mail: Home Staff John Law John Law Professor and Acting Co-Head of Department Sociology Department County College South Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD, UK Tel: Fax: Email: j.law@lancaster.ac.uk Current books .... After Method: Mess in Social Science Research Routledge, London, 2004 (link to Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience Duke UP, 2002 (link to Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (co-edited with Annemarie Mol), Duke UP 2002 (link to Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Reissued in print-on-demand format Organizing Modernity , Blackwell I moved to Lancaster in 1998 after many years at Keele University working in sociology and science and technology studies (STS). I greatly enjoy Lancaster for its interdisciplinarity, its enthusiasm for a mix of cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, feminist theory and - most particularly - STS. After nearly seven years at Lancaster I remain profoundly impressed by the commitment of its staff and students to talking across disciplinary boundaries, and their lack of concern with hierarchy or status. The result is a stunning intellectual milieu of I feel most privileged to be a part. I also greatly appreciate the area - on the edge of the Lake District - the most beautiful part of England, and one with which I have strong family ties. Walking and cycling calls on those clear days when the Lakeland hills are etched on the horizon.

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