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Technological change, explores the social and policy implications of the digitisation of Australian (and international) telecommunications and broadcasting, Specific policy and technology themes and debates illustrate the choices facing the information society, examines media discourses of communication technology

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

adaptation, cognition & culture, energy flow, time allocation & efficiency, population ecology & carrying capacity, life history & reproductive strategies, foraging systems, agriculture, pastoralism, group size & settlement patterns, land tenure, reciprocity & risk, competition & warfare, social stratification, niche theory & cultural diversity, ecology of disease & nutrition, conservation, "development" & ecological crises/toward sustainability: bibliography

• 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

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

examines contemporary problem of political violence and way that human rights have been conceived as means to protect & promote freedom, peace & justice for citizens against abuses of state: readings, study materials, course download

considers how symbols are created & structured, draw on & give meaning to different domains of human world, how woven into politics, family life & life cycle, how can interpret them, topics (Metaphor and Other Figurative Language, Raw Materials of Symbolism, especially Animals and The Human Body, Cosmology and Complex Symbolic Systems, Ritual, including Symbolic Curing and Magic, Narrative and Life, Mythology), syllabus, readings, samples of student work, course download

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

conquest & colonization of Americas with special attention to struggles of native peoples in Guatemala, Canada, Brazil, Panama & colonial New England, Jesuit missionization of the Huron in 630s, struggles between govt of Panama & the Kuna between 1900 and 1925: syllabus, readings, study materials, related resources, course download

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