Crash Course Sociology

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What Is Sociology?
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Today we kick off Crash Course Sociology by explaining what exactly sociology is. We’ll introduce the sociological perspective and discuss how sociology differentiates itself from the .. show full overview
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Major Sociological Paradigms
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This week we introduce sociology’s three major theoretical paradigms, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each paradigm.
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Sociology & the Scientific Method
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What puts the “science” in social science? Today we’ll explore positivist sociology and how sociologists use empirical evidence to explore questions about the social world. We’ll also .. show full overview
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Sociology Research Methods
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Today we’re talking about how we actually DO sociology. Nicole explains the research method: form a question and a hypothesis, collect data, and analyze that data to contribute to our theories about society.
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Émile Durkheim on Suicide & Society
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Now that we’ve talked a little bit about how sociology works, it’s time to start exploring some of the ideas of the discipline’s founders. First up: Émile Durkheim. We’ll explain the .. show full overview
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Karl Marx & Conflict Theory
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Today we’ll continue to explore sociology’s founding theorists with a look at Karl Marx and his idea of historical materialism. We’ll discuss modes of production, their development, and .. show full overview
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Du Bois & Race Conflict
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We’re continuing our exploration of conflict theories with W.E.B. Dubois, who is one of the founders of sociological thought more broadly and the founder of race-conflict theory. We’ll .. show full overview
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Harriet Martineau & Gender Conflict Theory
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Today we’re exploring another branch of conflict theory: gender conflict theory, with a look at sociology’s forgotten founder, Harriet Martineau. We’ll also discuss the three waves of feminism, as well as intersectionality.
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Max Weber & Modernity
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This week we are wrapping up our overview of sociology’s core frameworks and founding theorists with a look Max Weber and his understanding of the modern world. We’ll explore .. show full overview
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Symbols, Values & Norms
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What exactly is culture? This week we’re going to try to answer that, and explain the difference between material and non-material culture. We’ll look at three things that make up .. show full overview
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Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures
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What is culture? How do we define it and how does it change? We’ll explore different categories of culture, like low culture, high culture, and sub-cultures. We'll also revisit our .. show full overview
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How We Got Here
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So we know that sociology is the study of society, but what exactly *is* a society? Today we’re going to find out. We’ll look at Gerhard Lenski's classification of societies into five .. show full overview
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Social Development
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What makes you… you? How did you get to be that way? Today we’re talking about social development, starting with the role of nature and nurture in influencing a person’s development. .. show full overview
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Socialization
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Last week we introduced the idea of socialization and today we’re talking a little more about how it works, including an introduction to five main types of socialization. We’ll explore .. show full overview
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Social Interaction & Performance
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How do sociologists study and understand social interaction? Today we’ll explain the language sociologists use to discuss how we interact with the social world. What are statuses and .. show full overview
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Social Groups
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How do the groups that you're part of affect you? How do you, in turn, affect those groups? Today we are talking about how people in society come together with a look at social groups. .. show full overview
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Formal Organizations
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Today we are exploring the world of formal organizations. We’ll go back to the historical process of rationalization and its impact on organizations in the form of bureaucracy and then .. show full overview
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Deviance
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What is social deviance? Who defines what is deviant and how to people come to behave that way? Today we’re going to explore biological and psychological approaches to explaining .. show full overview
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Theory & Deviance
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Last week we introduced deviance as a concept, but today we’re going return to our major paradigms in sociology and how each approaches deviance. We’ll explore how structural .. show full overview
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Crime
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We’ve talked about deviance more broadly, but today we’re focusing on crime, specifically in the US. We’ll start with legal definitions of crime and use FBI data to get an idea of the .. show full overview
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Social Stratification
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How do different societies establish a social hierarchy? Today we’re starting our unit on social stratification, starting with four basic principles of a sociological understanding of .. show full overview
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Why is there Social Stratification?
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As we get into our unit on stratification, we inevitably return to our old friends, the three sociological paradigms. How to structural functionalism, social conflict theory, and .. show full overview
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Social Stratification in the US
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Today we are continuing our unit on stratification by exploring inequality in the US and talking about five ways that social stratification plays out in the US: income inequality, wealth .. show full overview
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Social Class & Poverty in the US
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Today we are continuing our unit on stratification by exploring inequality in the US and talking about five ways that social stratification plays out in the US: income inequality, wealth .. show full overview
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The Impacts of Social Class
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This week we are building on last week’s outline of American stratification to explore how class differences affect people’s daily lives. We’ll explore variations in everything from .. show full overview
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Social Mobility
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Today we’re exploring social mobility in some more depth. We’ll look at intergenerational and intragenerational mobility and the difference between absolute and relative mobility. We’ll .. show full overview
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Global Stratification & Poverty
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This week we’re taking our discussion of stratification global. We’ll look at First and Third World countries and the reasons why these terms are no longer used. We’ll introduce the four .. show full overview
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Theories of Global Stratification
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Today we’ll discuss two theories of global stratification. First, we’ll go over modernization theory and Walt Rostow’s Four Stages of Modernization. Next, we’ll explain dependency .. show full overview
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Economic Systems & the Labor Market
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This week we’ll see how economies can be broken down into the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. We’ll look at the three stages of economic revolution that brought us to the .. show full overview
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Politics
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While politics is generally seen as the domain of a civics class (and Craig did a great job of teaching US Government & Politics elsewhere on this channel!) it’s something that sociology .. show full overview
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Sex & Sexuality
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While sociology is a social science, we can use it to explore some intensely personal, private things. Today we’ll explore what sociology can tell us about sex and sexuality. We’ll also .. show full overview
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Gender Stratification
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Today we’re looking at how society becomes stratified along gender lines. We’ll discuss Raewyn Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities. We’ll explore .. show full overview
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Theories of Gender
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Why is gender even a thing? To answer that, we’re going back to our three sociological paradigms and how each school of thought approaches gender theory. We’ll look at the structural .. show full overview
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Race & Ethnicity
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What’s the difference between race and ethnicity? Today we’ll look at how definitions of races and ethnicities have changed over time and across places. We also discuss the terms .. show full overview
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Racial/Ethnic Prejudice & Discrimination
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We can’t talk about race without also discussing racism, so today we are going to define and explain prejudice, stereotypes, and racism. We’ll look at five theories for why prejudice .. show full overview
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Age & Aging
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People are getting older – not just in the individual sense, but the human population itself. Today we’re going to explore those shifting patterns and their implications. We’ll go over .. show full overview
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Theories About Family & Marriage
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Today we’ll explore how sociology defines family and the different terms used to describe specific types of family. We’ll look at marriage in different societies, as well as marital .. show full overview
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Stages of Family Life
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One way of thinking about family life says that there are stages that families move through: courtship, marriage, child-rearing, and family life in your later years. We’ll also discuss .. show full overview
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Religion
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Today we’re turning our sociological eye to another major social institution: religion. We’ll use symbolic interactionism to help us understand the dichotomy of the Sacred vs. the .. show full overview
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Education In Society
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Today we’ll explore the history of education as a social institution, with a specific focus on how the US organizes its educational system. We’ll look at education through the lenses of .. show full overview
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Schools & Social Inequality
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In the second half of our education unit, we’re using conflict theory to explore a few social inequalities in the US education system. We’ll look at variation in school funding and .. show full overview
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Health & Medicine
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Our final unit of Crash Course Sociology is medical sociology. Today we’ll explain what it is and get an overview of the role of society in our notions of health and disease.
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Population Health
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We’re continuing our unit on health with a discussion of some of the indicators that help us measure health for different populations. We’ll also explore three contributors to health .. show full overview
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The Structure & Cost of US Health Care
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In our final episode of Crash Course Sociology we are going to talk about what the health care system in the US looks like, the five A’s of health care accessibility, and a couple of .. show full overview

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