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         Cultural Things Sociology:     more books (80)
  1. All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal, 2001-05-10
  2. Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture) by Judith Attfield, 2000-12-01
  3. The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Miles Orvell, 1989-04-01
  4. Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter (Consumption & Space) by Daniel Miller P, 1997-11-13
  5. Comfort of Things by Daniel Miller, 2008-07-31
  6. Things Irish by Anthony Bluett, 1997-09-01
  7. People and Things: Social Mediation in Oceania by Monique Jeudy-Ballini, Bernard Juillerat, 2002-05
  8. Smart Things to Know About Culture (Smart Things to Know About (Stay Smart!) Series) by Donna Deeprose, 2003-02-21
  9. The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, 2007-11-01
  10. Japanese Things; Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travelers and Others. by Basil Hall Chamberlain, 1978-06
  11. Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things by Michele Barrett, 1999-03-01
  12. Kyongju Things: Assembling Place by Robert Oppenheim, 2008-06-28
  13. These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 by Michael Tavel Clarke, 2007-08-31
  14. Things Japanese in Hawaii by John Defrancis, 1973-06

41. Cultural Studies And Sociology
cultural STUDIES AND sociology, cultural Studies and Critical Theory provides a numberof links from Carnegie Mellon Subject Gateway for all things Aboriginal.
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42. Boing Boing: November 2003
Debora Iyall artist, Native American cultural activist, and all sorts of Not SafeFor Home things. sociology of cellular The Effects of Mobile Telephones
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A DIRECTORY OF WONDERFUL THINGS
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Sunday, November 30, 2003
Japanese web celeb rabbit "Oolong" now has a successor
Remember that website where the guy in Japan took totally cute daily snapshots of his beloved bunny named Oolong, and remember how Oolong passed away, and he took snapshots of his rabbit's death that were so sincere they just made you want to cry right into your keyboard? I may be the last blog-obsessed geek to learn, but the guy has a new, and equally photogenic rabbit named Yuebing ("moon-cake") Brace yourself for more really cute rabbit photos. Link
posted by Xeni Jardin at 11:09:01 PM permanent link to this entry New! Other blogs commenting on this post Female blogger's first-person sex column causes ruckus in China
NY Times piece on 25-year-old Chinese blogger Mu Zimei, whose sexually explicit first-person accounts have generated controversy and celebrity for the former magazine columnist. Snip: What changed everything was her decision in April to start her own online blog at a new Chinese site for personal diaries. She said she thought it would be fun. While writing her magazine column, she had hopped from man to man, sometimes hopping to two men at once, sometimes hopping to married men. Her topics, though, remained more thematic than explicit. But in her online diary, she began writing explicitly about these encounters, or those of her friends, and on July 26 described her brief and apparently unsatisfying liaison outside a restaurant with a famous guitarist in a Guangzhou rock band. The entry was posted at a popular online discussion board, spread among China's "netizens" like wildfire and was quickly picked up in the gossipy newspapers that feed China's growing celebrity culture. Eventually, she was featured in China's edition of Cosmopolitan magazine.

43. School Of Social Policy Sociology And Social Research / SSPSSR Undergraduate Deg
at Canterbury School of Social Policy, sociology and Social to develop new perspectiveson such things as identity formation, cultural practices and
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/undergrad/introduction.htm
CULTURAL STUDIES
University of Kent at Canterbury
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research We live at a time of intense controversy about an alleged 'dumbing down' of culture, with suggestions that we are brainwashed by the mass media and fed a diet of trivia, so that the quality of our lives and our capacity to act as responsible citizens is being seriously diminished. Are these claims true? Why are they being made now? And is it significant that controversies of this kind have occurred, at times, over the whole period of the development of 'popular culture', since the 18th Century? In investigating issues such as this, Cultural Studies has become a challenging academic subject, creating a distinctive perspective on modern culture, along with modes of analysis that go across traditional disciplinary boundaries, making use of both traditional academic sources but equally of material that has often been ignored, such as popular fiction, soap opera, horror films, TV ads, magazines, pop music, and, increasingly, the Internet. Drawing on such an eclectic range of cultural material enables us to develop new perspectives on such things as identity formation, cultural practices and the politics of culture; we can examine how, gender, ethnicity and sexuality are caught up with media representations; we can examine how culture and technology shape our ideas of reality.

44. Gettysburg College-Sociology & Anthropology
Prerequisite Anthropology 103 or sociology 101. Download Syllabus in PDF format(38K) Anth 301 Social Life of things Crosscultural exploration of how
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
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Anthropology Courses
Distribution requirements: All full-credit anthropology courses may be used to fulfill the College's liberal arts distribution requirement in Social Sciences, except 300-level methods courses ( Anthropology 309 and Anthropology 323 ). The following Anthropology courses fulfill the Non-Western Cultures distribution requirement: Anthropology 103 Anthropology 220 Anthropology 228 Anthropology 232 ... Anthropology 237 , and Anthropology 301 Prerequisites: Most upper-level anthropology courses require either the Anthropology 103 or Anthropology 105 introductory courses (except as noted in course descriptions). The

45. Dan Ryan, Mills Sociology
to know the diff b/w agency and structure and the various inbetweeners like habitusand cultural schemas, and The relativity of things. sociology is a science
http://www.mills.edu/SOCA/DANRYAN/SOC055/on-teaching-intro/
Dan Ryan Teaching Teaching Intro Teaching Introductory Sociology Dan Ryan
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Syllabi on the Web
Matt Lange @ Brown University Spring 2002 "Sociology 1: Perspectives on Society"
Douglas Heckathorn @ Cornell University Spring 2002 "Basic Problems in Sociology II"
Chris Hunter @ Grinnell College Archive Copy "Introductory Sociology"
Susan J. Ferguson @ Grinnell College Spring 2000 "Introduction to Sociology"
Raka Ray @ UC Berkeley Fall 1999 "Introduction to Sociology"
Kathy Kaufman @ Vassar College Fall 2001 "Introduction to Sociology"
David Newman @ DePauw Univerisity "Contemporary Society"
Top Things to Get Across in Intro*
* Based on contributions from Bruce Williams, Laura Nathan, Anne Eisenberg, Ana Villa-Lobos, Kerry Woodward, Dan Ryan and Jacqueline Bergdahl (in no particular order). If you'd like to add your thoughts to this list, email me at danryan@mills.edu
  • Sociological Imagination: to understand the relationship betweeen personal troubles and public issues. Theoretical perspectives: to define and be able to distinguish between the main theoretical perspectives - at least conflict perspective and symbolic interactionism, maybe structural functionalism too.
  • 46. Allen And Unwin - Sociology Extra
    period of the Industrial Revolution ( The one constant is that things change the emergenceof global cultural events and contexts such as the sociology Australia
    http://www.allenandunwin.com/academic/caseintro.asp
    Introduction This website is concerned with developing two related ideas: First, factors such as Gender, Class, Race, Geography, Religion, Age and Technology can be understood as cultural processes and relations . These cultural processes shape Human Behaviour in many complex and, often, unpredictable ways. Second, these same cultural processes shape the way we understand Human Behaviour. That is to say, what we might understand as normal and abnormal, natural and unnatural, deviant and delinquent Human Behaviour are things to be argued over; and these arguments will be influenced by various cultural processes intersecting in complex ways. As Judith Bessant and Rob Watts argue, HB can be characterised by their indeterminancy Anthony Giddens, a British sociologist, argues that:

    47. Interested In A Phd ? - Sociology At Lancaster University
    do a PhD full time, so long as things are going in sociology at Lancaster The sociologyDepartment at Science Studies, the Institute for cultural Research, the
    http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/prospective/phd/intro.htm
    Cartmel College, Lancaster University, LA1 4YL, UK
    Tel: +44 (0) 1524 594172 Fax: +44 (0) 524 594256 E-mail: Home Prospective Students PhD Interested?
    Interested in a PhD?
    John Law writes ...
    The Sociology Department is an exciting research-oriented centre. Its staff, together with those in related departments and centres such as Women's Studies, Science Studies, the Institute for Cultural Research, the Institute for Health Research, and the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy are helping to remake sociology and cultural studies in a wide variety of areas. The department is international in scope with staff and students from more than thirteen countries. The quality of the research is reflected in the RAE rating: yet again (December 2001) Lancaster has achieved the the highest 5* rating. But the excitement is not simply a statistical exercise! Most visitors immediately sense that Lancaster is a real social science powerhouse with exciting researchers and exciting research projects, seminars, and lectures! Many visitors also sense that hierarchy and rank are much less important to us that ideas, debate and research. There is a very unusual 'Lancaster culture'. As a part of this there are numerous

    48. Dictionary Of Critical Sociology - A
    Dictionary of Critical sociology. They put away things of the flesh and seek spiritualpurity in the ideas about beauty in nature and in cultural products.
    http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rmazur/dictionary/a.html
    Dictionary of Critical Sociology A B C D ... Z A AARP: The American Association of Retired Persons. This organization was founded to help solve the problems of the elderly who were often discarded after a life-time of productive or reproductive labor. It is concerned with social security, medical care, housing, nutrition and well being of elderly people. It is now the biggest union in the USA with over 40 million members. Of late, it has expanded its concerns to include children and women's needs. In so far as it calls for government support of social justice programs, it has become a serious problem for Republicans. Abortion: The process by which a pregnancy is terminated, usually within three months of conception. This activity has aroused great debate and much direct social action to prevent it. Many people argue that every life is sacred and that to abort a fetus is the same as murder. Many people believe that such activity is a matter of private concern to be decided in terms of the circumstances in which the mother and/or the father find themselves. Some countries provide abortion on demand at very low fees; other countries forbid it entirely. Some see abortion as a major device for birth control while others see it as a way to avoid collective care for unborn children. See birth control/'over' population for more things to consider. Abuse, Child: The use of force against a child to force it to obey and comply to rules or orders of adults. Often a polite synonym for child rape. It can include psychological acts which distress a child greatly.

    49. Karin Peterson
    studied the related fields, sociology of Knowledge, and sociology of Science. Mydissertation explored how marginalized cultural products (things like quilts
    http://www.unca.edu/sociology/faculty/peterson.htm
    Department of Sociology
    University of North Carolina at Asheville Home Faculty Courses Degree Requirements Karin Peterson Office: Office Phone: Office Hours: M 1:15 - 2:15
    T 1:30 - 2:30
    R 12:00 - 1:00
    F 1:15 - 2:15 E-Mail Address: kpeterson@unca.edu Fax: Fall 2004 Courses: SOC 179.001: LSCI: Develop Social Consciousness
    MWF 12:20 - 1:10 - ZH215
    W 1:20 - 2:10 - ZH215 SOC 225.001: Social Theory I
    MWF 2:20 - 3:10 - KH113 SOC 225.002: Social Theory I
    MWF 3:20 - 4:10 - KH113
    TR 3:10 - 4:25 KH113 Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia Diplôme d’études approfondies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) Ma trise, Université de Paris V B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College Personal Statement: I discovered sociology when I was an undergraduate at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. My favorite book as an undergraduate was Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (much to the dismay of students in my classical social theory classes). I was intrigued with the idea that religious beliefs could be linked to economic behavior, so intrigued that I integrated the book into papers for other courses.

    50. Sociology 120 - Cross-Cultural Aging
    sociology 120 Library Assignment Cross-cultural Aging. than either cross-culturalstudies or the country name alone a basic search, but this time things are a
    http://library.ccc.cccd.edu/soc120.htm
    SOCIOLOGY 120
    Library Assignment - Cross-Cultural Aging MLA Style Manual Prescott College, The Library. This site provides a quick reference for Modern Language Association (MLA) style for documenting sources. http://library.prescott.edu/mla.html The welfare and care of aging individuals is an issue worldwide. Attitudes toward, and treatment of, older adults differs throughout the world depending upon many factors: historic, economic, geographic, and cultural. Use the Coastline Virtual Library ( http://library.ccc.cccd.edu ) to find and review a minimum of five (5) articles that provide information about attitudes and treatment of older adults in at least two different countries/cultures. Articles may include information about the health status of elders in these countries or cultures. You may use the following suggested approaches to beginning your search. In the searches suggested below, you will notice that different search terms are used for each resource. That is because a librarian did not create the indexes and topic designations; each vendor has organized the entries according to its assumptions about the database’s users.

    51. K-State's Program In Cultural Studies
    studies scholars study many things, they share topic in the Seminar in cultural Studies, and anthropology, geography, history, sociology, philosophy, modern
    http://www.ksu.edu/english/programs/culturalstudies.html
    Program in Cultural Studies
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    Courses
    Programs Graduate Studies Undergraduate Studies Cultural Studies Creative Writing Language, Rhetoric, Literature Expository Writing ... More Information What is Cultural Studies? The study of literature, music, film, television, shopping malls, sports events, cartoons, etiquette manuals, bear-baiting, minstrel shows, and more. Cultural studies looks at all these things and the theories that help us understand their historical and cultural significance: marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, post-colonial theory, and race and ethnic studies. For example, our students have written on such topics as cyberpunk and environmentalism, cartoons from Japanese American internment camps during WWII, and contemporary novels, existentialism, and death. While cultural studies scholars study many things, they share a commitment to interdisciplinarity, contextualization, and social and political engagement. Our Cultural Studies Program is a track of the MA degree in literature. Students in this program are introduced to major theoretical influences in a seminar on "The Theory and Practice of Cultural Studies," delve into a specific topic in the "Seminar in Cultural Studies," and choose from other advanced courses in literature, criticism, and theory. They also select relevant courses in other disciplines such as women's studies, anthropology, geography, history, sociology, philosophy, modern languages, political science, and mass communications. At the culmination of their degree, they develop an independent research project.

    52. Anthropology Programme - School Of Sociology And Anthropology - University Of Ca
    from within the School of sociology and Anthropology expect to learn about a varietyof things relevant to policies, the preservation of cultural resources, and
    http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/discipline/anthropology/anthprogramme.shtml
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    What is anthropology?
    Anthropologists characteristically adopt a perspective that seeks interconnections between things, and their explanations tend to be holistic, placing social phenomena in their full context. Because of this, anthropologists cut across the disciplinary boundaries of other subjects, and often question conventional wisdom.

    Anthropology at Canterbury
    Although well established in other universities in New Zealand and throughout the world, anthropology is a new discipline at Canterbury.
    The first introductory course in anthropology at Canterbury was taught in 1998 by staff on campus who had anthropology training. A full under- and post-graduate programme in anthropology was approved in July 2000, and undergraduate courses are now offered at all three undergraduate levels. New staff are being appointed, and an Honours programme in anthropology has been introduced in 2003. With there being no separate department of anthropology, courses are organised and administered from within the School of Sociology and Anthropology.

    Studying anthropology
    Students enrolled in anthropology courses can expect to learn about culture and society through a study of the wide variety of ways in which people around the world live, but also through an appreciation of what humans have in common and of the fundamentals on which social life is based.

    53. Sociology 626, Ann Swidler, Instructor
    It explores the different things that fall under cultural practices (in contrast tocultural ideas, accounts Swidler is Professor of sociology at the University
    http://www.nd.edu/~soc/archives/swidler/sylswid.html
    Sociology 626: Exploring How Culture Constrains Action
    Ann Swidler, Provost's Distinguished Visiting Lecturer
    March 25-28, 1996, 9:00-11:00, 131 Decio
    Course Description This mini-course, which is open to faculty and graduate students from all departments, focuses on the question of how culture constrains action. It explores the different things that fall under the general rubric of "culture," how different cultural components might affect action differently, and what circumstances might intensify or weaken cultural effects on action. We will explore contrasting images of culture as shaping the internal equipment actors carry with them ("habitus," styles, skills, values) versus as constraining action from the outside. Finally, we examine culture as practices to see whether cultural practices (in contrast to cultural ideas, accounts, or symbols) constrain action in distinctive ways. About Ann Swidler Ann Swidler comes to Notre Dame as part of the Provost's Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Series. Swidler is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work on American culture and on cultural explanation has been widely influential. Her co-authored books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society have framed public debate about conflicts between individualism and community in American society. As her forthcoming studies of love in American culture and on

    54. UMD Sociology-Anthropology-Criminology-Humanities/Classics - Cultural Studies
    to include the kinds of things that would 2002 Department of sociologyAnthropology-Criminology-Interdiciplinary Studies - cultural Studies College
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    INTERNSHIP MANUAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH INTRODUCTION The Department of Sociology-Anthropology requires that all students taking a major in either Criminology and/or Sociology complete an internship in an area related to their degree program. Two sections of Soc 4597 are provided each semester so that students might find a convenient way to register for and meet the requirements of an internship. Section 1 makes it possible to register through the regular "day school" process. Section 2 makes it possible for students to enroll in Soc 4597 through Continuing Education (CE). The sections both have the same meeting times and expectations. Students are required to successfully complete one internship of seven (7) credits during one semester. Students are expected to initiate the internship application process by enrolling in and successfully completing Soc 4587. Students are to enroll in Soc 4587 with at least One Semester but not more than Two Semesters between that semester and the semester that the student expects to enroll in Soc 4597.

    55. Sociology Of Popular Culture
    The sociology of Popular Culture is a serious exploration analysis, it is useful toremember several things layers of meaning imbedded in cultural events and
    http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/soc150_fall97.html
    The Sociology of Popular Culture
    Sociology 150, Fall 1997
    1:25 2:15 MWF
    427 Waterman
    Thomas Streeter
    31 So. Prospect, 656-2167
    email: thomas.streeter@uvm.edu
      Once upon a time there were the mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners of the mass media.
      Well, it's all over. We have to start from the beginning, asking one another what's going on.
    Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality The Sociology of Popular Culture is a serious exploration of the development and social significance of various non-elite cultural forms in the U.S., such as rock music, television entertainment, and paperback novels. Topics will include: the development of the distinction between "highbrow" and "lowbrow" culture in the closing decades of the 19th century, the role of popular cultural forms in ethnic and other subcultures, the role of gender differences in popular culture, and recent theories and debates about the relation of culture and society.
    Assignments
    : there will be two written assignments (20% each; due on

    56. Culture Academic Papers Sociology
    Save on sociology Books. to Get Ahead Callahan, David Learn about The Cheating CultureWhy More to Get Ahead The Tipping Point How Little things Can Make a
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    57. Culture Academic Papers Sociology
    Its Use in Teaching (Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture). Learn aboutThe Tipping Point How Little things Can Make Save on sociology Software.
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    58. Term Papers
    applied sociology The results I found for attitudes towards Crime in our Culture CrimeDate Submitted 200001 Crimes include such things as murder, stealing a
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    www Term Papers Home Sociology 3 Non Traditional Religions Voodoo Spiritualism Cults.
    3 Non Traditional Religions Voodoo, Spiritualism, Cults Religion is primary agent of social control in our society. Due to its communally held beliefs and principles, we have a foundation on which we can rest t domestic violence.
    domestic violence Imagine that you fall in love. That the man of your dreams says "I DO" and that you may live happily ever after. Imagine you have your dream wedding, followed by your dream honeymoon. It seems that A World in Need of Tolerance.
    A World in Need of Tolerance I did not know what to expect from the Museum of Tolerance, I went in with the feeling that I was doing this just for class and was semi-interested. When we arrived we were a little early for our tour and had Abortioon.
    Abortioon Abortion In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so t about me.

    59. SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
    BENEDICT ANDERSON. Imagined Communities. Chapter 1 Introduction nationness, and nationalism are cultural artifacts whose creation toward the for the sociology of knowledge. Durkheim argued
    http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/ssr1/PRELIMS/Culture/cumisc1.html
    BENEDICT ANDERSON
    Imagined Communities Chapter 1: Introduction Nationality, nation-ness, and nationalism are cultural artifacts whose creation toward the end of the 18th C was the spontaneous distillation of a complex ''crossing'' of discrete historical forces; but that, once created, they became ''modular,'' capable of being transplanted to a great variety of social terrains, to merge and be merged with a variety of political and ideological constellations. Theorists of nationalism have encountered three paradoxes: (1)The objective modernity of nations in the eye of the historian vs. their subjective antiquity in the eye of nationalists. (2) The formal universality of nationality as a socio-cultural concepts vs. the particularity of its concrete manifestations. (3) The political power of nationalism vs. its philosophical poverty. In order to address some of these problems, Anderson proposes the following definition of nationalism: it is an imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because members will never know most of their fellow-members, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. It is limited because it has finite, though elastic boundaries beyond which lies other nations. It is sovereign because it came to maturity at a stage of human history when freedom was a rare and precious ideal. And it is imagined as a community because it is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.

    60. High And Low Culture
    One solution is to develop and enhance cultural artefacts (that is, the materialthings and nonmaterial ideas that constitute a particular culture) relevant
    http://www.sociology.org.uk/p2t3a.htm
    High and Low Culture. Conflict theorists, unlike their consensus counterparts, tend to argue that all modern societies consist of the appearance of a common culture, shared by everyone in society, which masks the reality of competing cultural forms. Marxist Conflict theorists in particular have argued that every society consists of social classes defined in terms of whether they own or do not own the means of economic production in society (in simple terms, society ultimately consists of two great classes:
    • The bourgeoisie (or upper and middle classes) who own and control the means of producing economic survival (they own factories, businesses and the like) and
      The proletariat (or working class) who survive by working for the bourgeoisie.
    In this sense, each of these two classes have very different interests and experiences in society. The bourgeoisie, for example, are the wealthiest (minority) in society whose interests lie in hanging-on to their privileged position. The proletariat, consisting of the least wealthy majority, have according to Marxists the common interest of taking away the wealth of the bourgeoisie. As can be imagined, the relationship between these two great classes is built upon a fundamental conflict of interest. For Marxists, therefore, the bourgeoisie have two main problems in terms of their relations with other social classes:

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