Sntroduction to Sociology Video clip from SEIU, Stronger real Together: Invisible No More ll. Explaining Social Stratification S50 Billion a stack of $100 Bills 50 kilometers high-> A. Functionalist [ozone Layer] explanations
I C. Wright Mills: The Sociological Imagination l. Peter Berger: Invitation to Sociology TO SOCIOLOGY ll. Using the Sociological EMILE DURKWEIM Imagination and MicroCase SUICIDE Explorit Data to Follow in Durkheim' s footsteps in Understanding Suicide
Sociological Lessons from the Titanic ll. Defining Sociology A. Is it a science? And what does this mean? B. What are social facts? Why was Durkheim's study of suicide so important? C. What do sociologists study? (What is their unit of analysis?) E. Is sociology micro or macro? Do they study the big picture or the little picture? F. Is sociology global? In what sense?
Sntroduction to Sociology . Race: The Power of An Illusion ll. Thinking about Race and Ethnicity: What is Tiger Woods? lll. Why race does not exist... except as a social construct ll. Ethnicity and Race as Folk Concepts
Cntroduction to Sociology Welcome to this course! . Three Goals of this Course ll. This Course's Online Syllabus and Requirements lll. Three Visions of Sociology: Improving Society, Science, Interpretation