Name: Crash Course: Sociology
Uploaded: 2017
Description: Host Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both shape societies and are shaped by them.

Host Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both shape societies and are shaped by them.

Today we kick off Crash Course Sociology by explaining what exactly sociology is. We’ll introduce the sociological perspective and discuss how sociology differentiates itself from the other social sciences.

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What Is Sociology?: Crash Course Sociology #1

This week we introduce sociology?s three major theoretical paradigms, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each paradigm.

Major Sociological Paradigms: Crash Course Sociology #2

What puts the ?science? in social science? Today we?ll explore positivist sociology and how sociologists use empirical evidence to explore questions about the social world.

Sociology & the Scientific Method: Crash Course Sociology #3

Today we?re talking about how we actually DO sociology. Nicole explains the research method: form a question and a hypothesis, collect data, and analyze that data to contribute to our theories about society.

Sociology Research Methods: Crash Course Sociology #4

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: ?mile Durkheim. We?ll explain the concept of social facts and how Durkheim framed sociology as a science.

Emile Durkheim on Suicide & Society: Crash Course Sociology #5

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 of production, their development, and how they fit into Marx?s overall theory of historical development, along with class struggle and revolution.

Karl Marx & Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology #6

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 founder of race-conflict theory. We?ll discuss shifting ideas about race, Dubois? idea of ?double-consciousness, and the field of racial identity.

Dubois & Race Conflict: Crash Course Sociology #7

Today we?re exploring another branch of conflict theory: gender conflict theory, with a look at sociology?s forgotten founder, Harriet Martineau. We?ll also discuss the three waves of feminism, as well as intersectionality.

Harriet Martineau & Gender Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology #8

This week we are wrapping up our overview of sociology?s core frameworks and founding theorists with a look at Max Weber and his understanding of the modern world. We?ll explore rationalization and the transition from traditional to modern society.

Max Webber & Modernity: Crash Course Sociology #9

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 look at three things that make up culture: symbols, values and beliefs, and norms.

Symbols, Values & Norms: Crash Course Sociology #10

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 sub-cultures.

Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures: Crash Course Sociology #11

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 classification of societies into five types, and the technological changes that turn one into another.

How We Got Here: Crash Course Sociology #12

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 influencing a person?s development.

Social Development: Crash Course Sociology #13

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 types of socialization.

Socialization: Crash Course Sociology #14

How do sociologists study and understand social interaction? Today we?ll explain the language sociologists use to discuss how we interact with the social world. What are statuses and roles? How are they different?

Social Interactions & Performance: Crash Course Sociology #15

How do the groups that you're part of effect you? How do you, in turn, affect those groups? Today we are talking about how people in society come together with a look at social groups.

Social Groups: Crash Course Sociology #16

Today we are exploring the world of formal organizations. We?ll go back to the historical process of rationalization and its impact on organizations in the form of bureaucracy and then discuss how organizations change in response to their organizational environment.

Formal Organizations: Crash Course Sociology #17

What is social deviance? Who defines what is deviant and how do people come to behave that way? Today we?re going to explore biological and psychological approaches to explaining deviance, including what each perspective can bring to the table.

Deviance: Crash Course Sociology #18

Last week we introduced deviance as a concept, but today we?re going to return to our major paradigms in sociology and how each approaches deviance.

Theory & Deviance: Crash Course Sociology #19

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 use FBI data to get an idea of the amount and kinds of crime committed in the US.

Crime: Crash Course Sociology #20

How do different societies establish a social hierarchy? Today we?re starting our unit on social stratification, starting with four basic principles of a sociological understanding of stratification.

Social Stratification: Crash Course Sociology #21

As we get into our unit on stratification, we inevitably return to our old friends, the three sociological paradigms. How do structural functionalism, social conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism each think about stratification?

Why is there Social Stratification?: Crash Course Sociology #22

Social class in America is... hard to talk about. As Sociology, the difficulty lies in pinning down what we mean by "Social Class." In this episode of Crash Course Sociology, Nicole chats to us about how Sociologists figure this out so we can all have a clearer idea of what we're talking about.

Social Stratification in the US: Crash Course Sociology #23

Today we?re breaking down the five different social classes in the United States: the upper class, the upper-middle class, the average middle class, the working class, and the lower class. We?ll also go over what poverty looks like in the United States.

Social Class & Poverty in the US: Crash Course Sociology #24

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 explore variations in everything from values & beliefs to health outcomes, and look at how these things can perpetuate inequality across generations.

The Impacts of Social Class: Crash Course Sociology #25

Today we?re exploring social mobility in some more depth. We?ll look at intergenerational and intragenerational mobility and the difference between absolute and relative mobility.

Social Mobility: Crash Course Sociology #26

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 longer used. We?ll introduce the four types of country categories we now use.

Global Stratification & Poverty: Crash Course Sociology #27

Today we?ll discuss two theories of global stratification. First, we?ll go over modernization theory and Walt Rostow?s Four Stages of Modernization. Next, we?ll explain dependency theory, the legacy of colonialism, and Immanuel Wallerstein?s Capitalist World Economy Model.

Theories of Global Stratification: Crash Course Sociology #28

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 an economic revolution that brought us to the modern post-industrial era.

Economic Systems & the Labor Market: Crash Course Sociology #29

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 channel!) it?s something that sociology is interested in too.

Politics: Crash Course Sociology #30

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 us about sex and sexuality. We?ll also see what the three sociological paradigms have to say about sexuality and sexual orientations.

Sex & Sexuality: Crash Course Sociology #31

Today we?re looking at how society becomes stratified along gender lines. We?ll discuss Raewyn Connell?s concept of hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities. We?ll explore gender socialization in the home, media, and schools.

Gender Stratification: Crash Course Sociology #32

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 theory.

Theories of Gender: Crash Course Sociology #33

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 places. We also discuss the terms minority and minority-majority and how races are defined in the United States.

Race & Ethnicity: Crash Course Sociology #34

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 at five theories for why prejudice exists. We?ll discuss discrimination and the legacies of institutional racism.

Racial/Ethnic Prejudice & Discrimination: Crash Course Sociology #35

People are getting older - not just in the individual sense, but the human population itself. Today we?re going to explore those shifting patterns and their implications.

Age & Aging: Crash Course Sociology #36

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 different societies, as well as marital residential patterns and patterns of descent.

Theories About Family & Marriage: Crash Course Sociology #37

One way of thinking about family life says that there are stages that families move through courtship, marriage, child-rearing, and family life in their later years. We?ll also discuss changing patterns of marriage and childbearing in the US, highlighting some of the varied family types that exist.

Stages of Family Life: Crash Course Sociology #38

Today we?re turning our sociological eye to another major social institution: religion. We?ll use symbolic interactionism to help us understand the dichotomy of the Sacred vs. the Profane.

Religion: Crash Course Sociology #39

Today we?ll explore the history of education as a social institution, with a specific focus on how the US organizes its educational system.

Education in Society: Crash Course Sociology #40

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 variation in school funding and quality, and the role of cultural capital.

Schools & Social Inequality: Crash Course Sociology #41

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 notions of health and disease.

Health & Medicine: Crash Course Sociology #42

We?re continuing our unit on health with a discussion of some of the indicators that help us measure health for different populations.

Population Health: Crash Course Sociology #43

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 care accessibility, and a couple of contributing factors to the affordability of health care.