Introductory, Social Sciences, Sociology & Anthropology

Intro to Instructional Design

instructional technology is systematic way of designing, developing, implementing, evaluating processes of learning and teaching with specific objectives based on research in human learning and communication, combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction, aspects of instructional design, product development, interactive learning technologies, multimedia, distance education, and library and information literacy

Human Society and the Global Economy

textbook-in-progress for a survey course in economics: institutionalist/Post-Keynesian approach, organization primarily historical, development of the global capitalist economy and of economics from the beginning of capitalism to present, micro-order and macro-order, market and state, development, growth and evolution of the capitalist economy, technology and society, distribution of income and wealth, and the visions of the major economists

Anthropology Tutorials

  • biological (Early Theories of Evolution, Primate Behavior, Genetics, Time, Biological Basis of Heredity, Early Primate Evolution, Human Chromosomal Abnormalities, Early Hominin Evolution, Synthetic Theory of Evolution, Early Human Evolution, Human Blood, Evolution of Modern Humans, Human Variation, Human Adaptability, Classification of Living Things, Primates): quizzes, glossary

  • Cultural Anthropology (Human Culture, Ethnicity and Race, Language and Culture, Political Organization, Patterns of Subsistence, Social Control, Economic Systems, Religion, Social Organization, Medical, Kinship, Culture Change, Sex and Marriage, Process of Socialization): glossary

Anthropology

manifestations of witchcraft, magic and religion from diverse cultures, belief and ritual, individual well‑being and communal solidarity, potential to generate discord and destruction, uneasy relationship between magic, witchcraft, religion and "science", contemporary Western culture, individuals who reject the world: Tylor, Durkheim, Frazer, Margaret Murray, Freud, Robin Horton's defense of Tylor, myth & symbolic classification, Malinowski & myth, the Dogon, Amazon cosmology, genesis as myth, Mary Douglas, Azande witchcraft, the European witch craze & Salem witch trials

Social Science Information Sources and Services

social science information sources with an emphasis on sources issued in US, Scholarly items receive more attention than popular ones, Sources examined will often be those available at larger university and public libraries, considers both print and digital materials, including WWW: anthropology, business/economics, education, political science, sociology, psychology, geography & history

Sociology

sociology of religion, secularisation, gender & work, family, families & change, health: essay topics, essay writing guide

Identity in question

identity, focusing upon the individual's perception of self in relation to others, relationships between multi-ethnicity, cultural diversity and identity, effects of inequality and social class upon identity, inequality and social class as they relate to perceived identity

Lecture Notes for Sociology

human societies, culture, socialization, norms, status & role, socials (groups, class), human population, race & minority relations, crime, social institutions, family, religion

Sociology Courses

statistics, social change, practicum & internship seminar, applied sociology, methods, introduction to sociology, social problems, assignment resources

Sport Notes

sociology of sport, coaching of individual sports

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