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SOC 101 Final Readings
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
01/18/2011

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Subjects have been given motive to disprove expectation so social pressure is no longer only variable, creates instead a valuable psychology experiment
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Michael Apted's Up Series: Public Sociology or Folk Psychology through Film?
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Wealthier people are healthy. Gradient dependent upon $, edu, background, job prestige. Winston Churchill affect creates exception to the rule
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The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects our Health and Longevity
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Though America has moved from inherited privilege to a meritocracy, the rich are still at an advantage because of education and networks
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Class in America: Shadowy Lines that Still Divide
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Stratification is an unstoppable process. Reinforced by emulation (mimetic isomorphism) and adaptation (individual acceptance of current class)
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Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
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Moral Entrepreneurship, Drs are creating social power by creating and expanding Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Diagnosing Moral Disorder: The discovery and evolution of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Disconnect between Patients and Families, Story of Mother's journey with a cancer patient daughter
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People Like That are the Only People Here
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Medicine established authority over society. Shift since 1950 towards corporate medicine.
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine
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The skewing of birthrate in many east and south asian countries leads to higher crime rates and female suicides. Modernization leads to drop in morals
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Gendercide: The Worldwide War on Baby Girls
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Institutional Isomorphism - Coercive, Normative, Mimetic. Initial Weberian idea that humanity is imprisoned by bureaucratic order.
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The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
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Capitalism is an Evolutionary process, New good and markets break down economic stucture, thus we are trapped in an endless cycle of purposeful destruction and rebuilding.
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The Process of Creative Destruction
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SHift from mid 20th cent balance between capitalism and democracy though gov regulations towards an unregulated uncontrollable capitalism
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life
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World is so connected it puts all of human kind on an equal playing field
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It's a Flat World After All
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Technology is so connected to us that it has redefined relationships, interactions and self image
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Always On/ Always On You: The Tethered Self
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Newspapers keep democracy in check through the questioning of journalists. Death of paper = death of civil engagement
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Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)
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The idea of global economics are very complex and systems break easily. Cannot be unregulated and the world is not flat
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Global Capitalism
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Public Characters, Old Heads, Fuck It mentality, Broken Window Theory, Differential Association, How do people living on the streets live in a moral order?
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Sidewalk
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Social activities are learned and dependent upon early childhood interaction with a parent
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Extreme Isolation
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