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IntroSociology2011: November 2010
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Friday, November 26, 2010. You can do several things to prepare for winter quarter, why not get started early! 1: Order your books:. The textbook is "Sociology" by Rodney Stark, Tenth Edition. $140 new from Amazon. There are about 90 used copies available via Amazon for about $40 to $85 including shipping. You can check ISBN.NU for many other used copies. The extended discussion book is "Cognitive Surplus" by Clay Shirky. It is about $17 new from Amazon or about $12 used or in Kindle version. Bookmark th...
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IntroSociology2011: Final Exam
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Saturday, March 12, 2011. You are free to use your notes and discuss questions with your classmates. However, you must. Write your own answers. Type your answers on Google Docs or Microsoft word before you submit them. Once they are all written, then open the quiz and copy and paste them into the following Google Form. SUBMIT ONLY ONCE. The final is due by noon on Tuesday. Make sure you write good answers. Each question is worth about 23 points. Here are the questions:. 1 Contact theory and prejudice.
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IntroSociology2011: February 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011. Today in class, we discussed collective action. We learned that while collective action is a very powerful concept which can be utilized to accomplish great things, it also has a few potential problems. The most notable problem is the Free Rider Problem (that is, a lack of contribution). This problem can affect you personally in terms of your group project, as we saw from this graph:. Luckil y, there are a few ways to counter the free rider problem:. Friday, February 25, 2011.
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IntroSociology2011: Last Quiz
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Friday, March 4, 2011. You are free to use your notes and discuss questions with your classmates. However, you must. Write your own answers. Type your answers on Google Docs or Microsoft word before you submit them. Once they are all written, then open the quiz and copy and paste them into the following Google Form. SUBMIT ONLY ONCE. The ideal answers are logically complete but short and succinct. Make sure you use your own examples (not the ones from lecture). 4 Explain what the free rider problem is...
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IntroSociology2011: Thanks for a great quarter!
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Thursday, March 17, 2011. Thanks for a great quarter! Thanks for a great quarter! I really enjoyed the contributions that everyone made, from video suggestions, comments in class, final projects, and the insights you shared in your digital portfolios. This year we did a bunch of things that I had not done before, or at least not at this scale. I feel like the experimental aspects mainly worked, and hopefully next time the class will be even better. Enjoy your spring break! Posted by Howard T. Welser.
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IntroSociology2011: March 2011
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Thursday, March 17, 2011. Thanks for a great quarter! Thanks for a great quarter! I really enjoyed the contributions that everyone made, from video suggestions, comments in class, final projects, and the insights you shared in your digital portfolios. This year we did a bunch of things that I had not done before, or at least not at this scale. I feel like the experimental aspects mainly worked, and hopefully next time the class will be even better. Enjoy your spring break! Posted by Howard T. Welser.
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IntroSociology2011: Digital Portfolio
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Monday, March 7, 2011. This should be fun and easy. Digital portfolio due: by Wednesday March 16th 6:00 pm. This means Wednesday of exam week. This document as a google doc:. Https:/ docs.google.com/document/d/1boJnM3FFWH2GMNEVW18wDkPqXmLYPHwY 2r92NWWRLw/edit? Each student will produce a digital portfolio that describes the contributions that they made to the course along with commentary relates those contributions to the themes of the course. Participate in the blogs via comments. It is what your final ...
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IntroSociology2011: Social Change and Development
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Thursday, March 3, 2011. Social Change and Development. Today in class, we discussed social change and development. We learned that social change is a change in the distribution of goods, resources, roles, ideas or relationships at a large scale and are often related to changes in institutions, rules, laws or infrastructure. March 7, 2011 at 7:21 AM. March 7, 2011 at 7:24 AM. The distribution of goods throughout the world has such variety, and here in America were so far advanced and more developed then ...
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IntroSociology2011: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Today in class we discussed Authority, a topic that Weber wrote extensively about. We learned that there are 5 types of authority:. We saw that rational/legal authority is most related to bureaucracy (another topic that Weber wrote extensively about. Sunday, January 30, 2011. Missing from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen. . . Decent jobs. Http:/ finance.yahoo.com/news/Face-of-Mideast-unrest-young-apf-1729613549.html? Posted by Howard T. Welser. Friday, January 28, 2011. Both blog posts work.
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IntroSociology2011: Today's Group Projects
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Friday, March 4, 2011. Here are the group projects that we looked at in class today. Great job everyone! Thanks for all of your work on your Soc 101 2011 projects. The most successful projects are those that [both! Demonstrate the value of sociological concepts for helping to make sense of the world and are inherently interesting. In an ideal world a project would be shared (like a meme) while also educating. Why is This so Damn Popular? Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? This team showed great ambition in th...