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Deviance: Crash Course Sociology
What is social deviance? Who defines what is deviant and how to 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...
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Policing the Night
This film looks at how social control in the Night-Time Economy of pubs and clubs is increasingly created and maintained by professional Bouncers rather than the police.
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Labelling Theory
Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control. Labelling theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and its consequences. This film documents the rise and fall of labelling theory and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jason Stanley - Education vs Indoctrination
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has also been a Professor at the...
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Crimes of the Powerful
How and why are crimes committed by powerful social actors different from other types of crime? David Whyte explains and examines some of the problems sociologists face in defining and researching the crimes of the powerful.
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Moral Panics
This film examines the concepts of moral panic and deviancy amplification through both a classic - Stan Cohen talking about the origins and implications of his concept in the context of Mods and Rockers in the early 1960ês - and...
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Religion: What It Is and What It Does
Ask a hundred people what they think religion is and you'll probably get a hundred different answers. However, to study religion we have bring together more general ideas about what religion is and what it does. This film, with Professor...
Crash Course
Crash Course Sociology #18: Deviance
This video focuses on deviance; it is the 18th episode of the sociology course. What is social deviance? Who defines what is deviant and how to people come to behave that way? The video explores the biological and psychological...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rise of Hitler and the Nazis: Night of the Long Knives
Find out about the purge that took place in Nazi Germany in 1934, when the Nazi regime executed several political murders.
Crash Course
Crash Course Sociology #39: Religion and Society
This episode turns a 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. We'll compare the perspectives of structural...