Mind Blow
Date de parution : 4 novembre 2010
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | What Is Sociology? Today we kick off Crash Course Sociology by explaining what exactly sociology is. We’ll introduce the sociological perspective and discuss how... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Major Sociological Paradigms This week we introduce sociology’s three major theoretical paradigms, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each paradigm. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Sociology & the Scientific Method What puts the “science” in social science? Today we’ll explore positivist sociology and how sociologists use empirical evidence to explore questions... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Sociology Research Methods Today we’re talking about how we actually DO sociology. Nicole explains the research method: form a question and a hypothesis, collect data, and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Émile Durkheim on Suicide & Society 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:... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Karl Marx & Conflict Theory 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Du Bois & Race Conflict 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Harriet Martineau & Gender Conflict Theory Today we’re exploring another branch of conflict theory: gender conflict theory, with a look at sociology’s forgotten founder, Harriet Martineau.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Max Weber & Modernity 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Symbols, Values & Norms 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | How We Got Here 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | Social Development 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | Socialization 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | Social Interaction & Performance How do sociologists study and understand social interaction? Today we’ll explain the language sociologists use to discuss how we interact with the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | Social Groups 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | Formal Organizations Today we are exploring the world of formal organizations. We’ll go back to the historical process of rationalization and its impact on organizations... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 18 | Deviance 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Theory & Deviance 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.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | Crime 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | Social Stratification How do different societies establish a social hierarchy? Today we’re starting our unit on social stratification, starting with four basic principles... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | Why is there Social Stratification? As we get into our unit on stratification, we inevitably return to our old friends, the three sociological paradigms. How to structural... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | Social Stratification in the US Today we are continuing our unit on stratification by exploring inequality in the US and talking about five ways that social stratification plays... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 24 | Social Class & Poverty in the US Today we are continuing our unit on stratification by exploring inequality in the US and talking about five ways that social stratification plays... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 25 | The Impacts of Social Class 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Social Mobility Today we’re exploring social mobility in some more depth. We’ll look at intergenerational and intragenerational mobility and the difference between... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 27 | Global Stratification & Poverty 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 28 | Theories of Global Stratification Today we’ll discuss two theories of global stratification. First, we’ll go over modernization theory and Walt Rostow’s Four Stages of Modernization.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 29 | Economic Systems & the Labor Market 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... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 30 | Politics 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... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Sex & Sexuality 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... | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 32 | Gender Stratification Today we’re looking at how society becomes stratified along gender lines. We’ll discuss Raewyn Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinities and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 33 | Theories of Gender 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 34 | Race & Ethnicity 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 35 | Racial/Ethnic Prejudice & Discrimination 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 36 | Age & Aging People are getting older – not just in the individual sense, but the human population itself. Today we’re going to explore those shifting patterns... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 37 | Theories About Family & Marriage 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 38 | Stages of Family Life One way of thinking about family life says that there are stages that families move through: courtship, marriage, child-rearing, and family life in... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 39 | Religion Today we’re turning our sociological eye to another major social institution: religion. We’ll use symbolic interactionism to help us understand the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 40 | Education In Society 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 41 | Schools & Social Inequality 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... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 42 | Health & Medicine 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... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 43 | Population Health 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... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 44 | The Structure & Cost of US Health Care 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... |
