Introductory, Intermediate, Social Sciences, Sociology & Anthropology

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

Sociology Courses

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

Contemporary American Family

evolution of family & how currently defined in US discussing different views about what families should look like, class & ethnic variability & effects of changing gender roles, sexuality, marriage, parenting, divorce, family violence, family economics, poverty, family policy, day care, welfare policy, "family values" debate: syllabus, readings, study questions, course download

Sociology and Politics Lectures

diagrams, links: classical sociological theory, political sociology, sociological methods, comparative-historical sociology, international studies, press clippings, trend charts, polls

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