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SHORT READINGS
and Lecture Notes
by Phil Bartle, PhD
List of sociology readings
These are short readings to help you with your study of Sociology
Documents Included in the Perspectives Module
- Sociological Perspectives
- The Sociological Perspective
- The Meaning of Culture
- Everyday Things; Sociological Perspective
- Eye of the Beholder; Sociological Perspective
- Is Culture Inside Us or Outside Us?
- Nacirema (Have you heard of them before?)
- Poker Game, a metaphor for sociological perspective
- Strange Fish; key word on this site
- Superorganic; another view of culture
- Web References Introductory Sociology
Documents Included in the Classical Sociologists Module
Documents Included in the Dimensions Module
- Culture and its Dimensions
- Dimensions of Culture
- Culture, Symbols and Dimensions
- The Economic Dimension of society
- The Institutional Dimension
- The Political Dimension
- The Technological Dimension
- The Values Dimension
- The Worldview Dimension (beliefs)
- Change and the Dimensions
- Change and the Dimensions
- Discussion, Dimensions
- Discussion, Technology
Documents Included in the Community Module
- Sociology of Communities
- Family and Community (outline)
- Community
- Community Based Social Work in Refugee Camps
- Community Characteristics
- Elements of Strength
- Preliminary Community Data
- Questions on Community Based Social Work
- Sociology of Communities; an introduction
- Thesaurus, Community
- Web References Textbook
- Web References for Family and Community
- What is Community?
Documents Included in the Family Module
- Family and Kinship
- Akan Case Study; lecture notes on matriliny
- Akan Covert Gynocracy, hidden status of women
- Families in First Nations, Visible Minorities and Immigrants
- Family Politics
- Home vs Work Conflict
- Homosexuality
- Incest Taboo
- Love and Marriage
- Marriage Terminology
- Seven Biases in Family Literature
- Web References Sociology of Family and Community
- Preliminary Family Data
- Social Indicators of Family; Ethnography
- Thesaurus, Family
- Using the Six Dimensions in Family Research
- Discussion: Divorce.
- Discussion: Nuclear Family
Documents Included in the Socialization Module
- Education and Socialization
- An Aural Method to learn an oral language
- Education
- Gender and Language
- Sapir and Whorf; language and perception of reality
- Social Promotion; failing grades, passing students
- Socialization, Chickens and Eggs
- Who Should Pay to Raise Children?
- Discussion, Reality TV
- Discussion, Socialization
- Discussion, Secondary Socialization
Documents Included in the Crime and Deviance Module
- Crime and Deviance
- Criminal Sentence Purposes
- Deviance
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Good Guys versus Bad Guys
- Law as a Tool of Oppression
- Restorative Justice
- So What About Corporations?
- Corruption and the Multiplier Effect
- Techniques of Neutralization
- Discussion, Deviance
- Discussion, Female Genital Mutilation
- Discussion, Law
Documents Included in the Inequality Module
- Inequality, Age, Race, Sex
- Age, Race and Sex; socio-bio interface
- Elders
- Factors of Poverty; The Big Five
- Gender Division of Labour among the Akan
- Gender for the Community Mobiliser
- Glass Ceiling; Glass Elevator
- Global Stratification
- Inequality
- Power of Suns in the Sixties
- Racial Categories and Biology
- Vertical Mosaic
- Discussion, Elders
- Discussion, Feminism
- Discussion, Gender
- Discussion, Inequality
- Discussion, Race
Documents Included in the Religion Module
- The Sociology of Religion
- Akan Religion pre Christian gods and ancestors
- Notes on Religion (Beliefs and social organization)
- Early Sociological Contributions
- Religion and Earlier Societies
- Religion and Agriculture
- How Far Can We Go with Reincarnation?
- Religion and Suppression of Free Thinking
- The Shift to Monotheism
- Knowing
- From Sacred and Profane to Secular
- Peace and Religion
- Truth and History
- Graduating from Cult to Religion
- Beliefs Without Religion
Documents Included in the Change Module
Documents Included in the Demography Module
Documents Included in the Community Research Module
- Community Research
- Measuring Strength
- Methods of Participatory Appraisal
- Preliminary Family and Community Data
- Six Plus Two
- Sixteen Elements of Strength; (Family, Organization or Community)
- Sixteen Elements explicated
- Social Indicators of Family or Community; Ethnography
- Social Research for Mobilisers and
- Using the Six Dimensions in Family Research
Documents Included in the Social Research Module
Documents Included in the Akan and Kwawu Studies Section
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The Akan are a matrilineal group of societies
speaking the same language, who live in the West African tropical rain
forest of southern Ghana and Ivory Coast. The Kwawu is one of those
Akan societies.
(Covert Gynocracy; Forty Days; Sacred Ancestral Linguist Staff; The Ubiquitous
Oil Palm; Slides)
Documents Included in the Reference Module
- References
- Archive URLs
- The Dead Sociologists Society
- Discussions
- Glossary; Learn Some Vocabulary
- Quotations Archives
- Sociology; Entry in Wilkipedia
- Thesaurus, Society
- Web References Social Organization and Social Structure
- Web References Sociology of Family and Community
- Web References The Sociology of Community (Textbook) and
- When writing, avoid Writing Errors
Documents Included in the Miscellaneous Section
- Miscellaneous Sociological topics
- Eating with Friends
- Rites of Passage
- Discussions, What Can I get out of this course?
- Discussions, Text Book and
- Discussions, Unsorted Topics