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May 31, 2023

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DESMOND M. CONNOR
CONSTRUCTIVE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: PRACTICING UTOPIAN THINKING
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Collective Behavior/Social Movements
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
If we are to soon earn the quality of public involvement in government that is a necessary precondition for advances in utopian community-building, it will take more and more of the thoughtful, sensitive, and rewarding exercises of the type explained below. Created...
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Akos Rona-Tas
Economic Sociology Graduate Seminar
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Economic Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Economic sociology has been one of the most dynamic fields of the discipline since the mid 1980s. It has developed in a conversation with economics. This has created some of the most interesting cross-discipline traffic in ideas. Many of these ideas have great...
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Marybeth C. Stalp
ASSIGNMENT: URBAN LEGENDS PAPER: A COMPARATIVE WEBSITE ASSIGNMENT
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Project Description: For this short 5-page paper assignment, you will do research on either a) the Halloween Sadist (the strange, evil man that apparently has nothing better to do on Halloween than poison all of our candy, all across the country, all at the same...
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Lauren Langman
THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL THEORY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Marxist Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
Course focuses on: Durkhiem, E Choose one, Suicide, Elementary Forms Religious Life Gerth/Mills From Max Weber Giddens, A Capitalism and Modern Social Theory Freud, S Civilization and its Discontents Tucker, R. Marx Engels Reader Wolff, K, The Sociology of Georg Simmel
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CHRISTOPHER B. JONES, Wendy Schultz
CREATING CULTURES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Collective Behavior/Social Movements
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This curriculum, invented by Wendy Schultz, and previously taught in partnership with Dr. Christopher B. Jones, takes the issue of governance as its centerpiece, and then has students design entirely new schemes of government for previously uninhabited places. A...
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Richard Swedberg
Topics in Economic Sociology
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Economic Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
In this seminar we will discuss a selected number of key topics in economic sociology as well as the conceptual tools that are needed to analyze economic phenomena from a sociological perspective. The main emphasis will be on contemporary capitalism and its key...
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Bruce K. Friesen
USING NATIONAL TRAGEDY TO TEACH SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Psychology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
DRAFT: Students learn best while attempting to solve problems and answer questions about which they care. Structuring a social psychology class as a natural learning environment, whereby students attempt to answer a big question like "How can we avoid tragedies like...
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Heather Laube
Action-Oriented Sites
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Mass Communication/Public Opinion
Resource Type(s):
Website
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Listing and abstracts of websites related to activism.
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Suzanne Goodney-Lea
Explaining The Killer at Thurston High
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
After viewing the documentary, please answer any two of the following questions, referring to what you read for today (you may use your books/notes to answer the questions). Please write a succinct, 2-3 page essay for each question to which you respond. Make sure...
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Viviana A. Zelizer
Money, Work, and Social Life
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Economic Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This resource provides guidelines for a research paper associated with the 300 level course Money, Work, and Social Life
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