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Social Sciences

- group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. They differ from the arts and humanities in that the social sciences tend to emphasize the use of the scientific method in the study of humanity, including quantitative and qualitative methods - Wikipedia.

Sociology

- scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture. Areas studied in sociology can range from the analysis of brief contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social interaction - Wikipedia.

Anthropology

- study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences - Wikipedia.

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The Anthropology of Computing

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

examines computers anthropologically as meaningful tools revealing social & cultural orders that produce them, classic texts in computer science, works analyzing links between machines & culture, early computation theory & capitalist manufacturing: cybernetics and WWII operations research, readings

Primate Behavior

Notre Dame University, Opencourseware

explores social lives of the nonhuman primates, introduction to primate evolution and taxonomy and behavioral ecology, examines select groups of living primates through topics such as conservation, social behavior, cooperation/competition, reproduction, ethnoprimatology and evolution of social organization: exam reviews, resources

Rules, Race, and Mel Gibson

European Graduate School (EGS)

Slavoj Zizek talking about the explicit, truth, rules, politics, Mel Gibson, society, race, racism, antisemitism, lecturing and developing a psychoanalysis of culture and societies
 

Medical Anthropology

MIT OpenCourseWare (US)

medicine from a cross-cultural perspective focusing on the human as opposed to biological, various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems, Particular emphasis on Western (bio-medicine, how biomedicine constructs disease health body and mind, how it articulates with other institutions national and international: readings

Sociologies of Health & Illness ELearning Databank

Cambridge University (UK)

interdisciplinary project to create databank of re-usable e-learning resources shared between disciplines & across institutions, supporting staff & students to embrace technological change: parsons' sick role, doctor/patient relations, social class, Black report & inequalities in health, Gender and health, Social Capital, Gender and health, Medicalisation, Death

Oral History of the City

Missouri University (US)

ideas and history, Skinker-DeBaliviere, memory and society, background and approaches, Methodology and Interviewing: project, readings

Human Origins and Evolution

MIT (US), OpenCourseware

examines dynamic interrelations among physical and behavioral traits of humans, environment and culture to provide an integrated framework for studying human biological evolution and modern diversity, morphological evolution and adaptation, fossil and cultural evidence for human evolution from earliest times through the Pleistocene, evolution of tool use and social behavior, modern human variation and concepts of race, stone artifacts and fossil specimens

City Visions: Past and Future

MIT (US), OpenCourseware

understandings of the city generated from both social science literature and urban design, literature on the history and theory of the city, theory and practice of design visions for the city, conditions under which a variety of design visions were conceived, future prospects of cities, design visions that might reflect these new dynamics: readings
 

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