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Course Learning Outcomes
About This Course
1. Request Access
2. Citing Paraphrases and Summaries (APA)
3. APA Citation Style, 6th edition: General Style Guidelines
4. Why It Matters: Sociological Foundations
5. Outcome: Introducing Sociology
6. Reading: What Is Sociology?
7. Reading: The History of Sociology
8. Reading: Why Study Sociology?
9. Outcome: The Sociological Imagination
10. Reading: Defining the Sociological Imagination
11. Outcome: Sociological Perspectives
12. Reading: Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives
13. Video: Social Institutions
14. Reading: Structural-Functional Theory
15. Reading: Conflict Theory
16. Reading: Feminist Theory
17. Reading: Symbolic Interactionist Theory
18. Outcome: The Scientific Method
19. Reading: Introduction to Sociological Research
20. Reading: The Scientific Method
21. Outcome: Research Methods
22. Reading: Surveys
23. Reading: Experiments
24. Reading: Field Research
25. Reading: Secondary Data Analysis
26. Reading: Summary of Research Methods
27. Reading: Ethics
28. Putting It Together: Sociological Foundations
29. Why It Matters: Culture and Society
30. Outcome: Defining Culture
31. Reading: Culture and Society
32. Reading: What Is Culture?
33. Reading: Ethnocentrism and Xenocentricism
34. Outcome: Elements of Culture
35. Reading: Values and Beliefs
36. Reading: Social Norms
37. Reading: Symbols and Language
38. Outcome: Pop Culture, Subculture, and Cultural Change
39. Reading: Pop Culture and Subculture
40. Reading: Cultural Change
41. Outcome: The Evolution of Societies
42. Reading: Types of Societies
43. Outcome: Theoretical Perspectives on Culture and Society
44. Reading: Theoretical Perspectives on Culture
45. Reading: Functionalism and Society
46. Reading: Conflict Theory and Society
47. Reading: Symbolic Interactionism and Society
48. Outcome: Reality as a Social Construct
49. Reading: Social Constructions of Reality
50. Reading: Roles and the Presentation of Self
51. Putting It Together: Culture and Society
52. Why It Matters: Socialization and Interaction
53. Outcome: Self-Development
54. Reading: Theories of Self-Development
55. Reading: Moral Development
56. Outcome: Socialization
57. Reading: Why Socialization Matters
58. Reading: Social Group Agents
59. Reading: Institutional Agents
60. Reading: Socialization Across the Life Course
61. Reading: Resocialization
62. Outcome: Group Dynamics
63. Reading: Types of Groups
64. Reading: Group Size and Structure
65. Reading: Leadership Styles
66. Reading: Conformity
67. Outcome: Types of Formal Organizations
68. Reading: Types of Formal Organizations
69. Reading: The McDonaldization of Society
70. Putting It Together: Socialization and Interaction
71. Why It Matters: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control
72. Outcome: Deviance
73. Reading: Deviance and Control
74. Outcome: Theories of Social Devi