Social Sciences: Study of Society

In this course, we learn about the sociological perspectives, the way sociologists analyse social interaction, social problems and some of the institutions like the family and education.

Solomon Asch (1951) conducted an experiment to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform.

The Association of Women Educators (AWE) is a professional body, founded in 1983. AWE, through its Branches and Executive, works actively to further the participation of women and girls in education.

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas recounts the historical development of ideas across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, religion, politics, literature, and the biological, physical, and social sciences.

Education of women Websites, news items and print resources on gender issues.

This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn.

Diffen aims to provide a one-stop shop for unbiased, free information.

Social psychology is about understanding individual behaviour in a social context.

Researchers, philosophers, and psychologists have proposed a number of different theories to explain the how and why behind human emotions.

From About.com Psychology website.

Contents: The Historical Study of Women , Human Origins , Ancient Egypt, General, Great Women, Women's Oppression, The Structure of Women's Lives, Women's Agency, Gender Construction, Feminism etc

This database lists hundreds of resources -- articles, documents and links -- related to international women's rights law and Canadian women's rights law.

SEV (Social Education Victoria)(formerly VASST Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers) is a professional association established in 1970 for all who are interested in teaching about society and environment using integrated approaches to SOSE course content.

Has now been rebuilt as a database that serves content dynamically on the Web. The site models the way the humanities are organized for research and teaching as well as the way they are adapting to social, cultural, and technological changes.

From University of Missouri.

From About.com Sociology.

Information concerning Australia and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) (2010).

The course website for Social Stratification and Mobility at the University of Warsaw.

ICRW's mission is to empower women, advance gender equality and fight poverty in the developing world. To accomplish this, ICRW works with partners to conduct empirical research, build capacity and advocate for evidence-based, practical ways to change policies and programs.

Creative Spirits has been online since 1999. All articles have references to the sources used.

Address by Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Helen Szoke in 2012.

This new inequality.org site aims to be your portal into all things online related to the income and wealth gaps that so divide us, in the United States and throughout the world.

Listen to the women at the forefront of Britain’s Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 80s. Learn about what motivated the movement and how women and society reacted to the fight for equality.

As SparkNotes editors, our mission is to help you make sense of confusing schoolwork

StudyMode provides a network of educational sites and practical online learning tools that allow students to share and review study materials.

Welcome to WGSSLINKS, developed and maintained by the Women & Gender Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries. The purpose of WGSSLINKS is to provide access to a wide range of resources in support of Women and Gender Studies.

EarthLink empowers customers with managed services including cloud computing, managed and private cloud, and virtualization services such as managed hosting and cloud workspace

eyond Intractability was developed and is still maintained by the University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium

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This chapter focuses on the way that cultures change and how cultural diversity is created, maintained and lost.

Look up anthropologists, terms and schools.

From Princeton University.

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.

Discusess the roles of both high culture and pop culture within society. From Openstax College.

From About.com Sociology.

The Australian Anthropological Society represents the anthropologists of Australia.

Published by the United Nations Department of Public Information.

From Cliff's Notes -Using sociological imagination, they examine both personal and social forces when explaining any phenomenon.

Paper by Prof. Timothy Shortell, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College.

From About.com Sociology.

From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.

A stuents' guide to Sociology.