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by Paul Nervy
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SOCIOLOGY

Contents

Methodology
	Philosophy of social sciences
	Science of social sciences
	Art of social sciences.

Social Psychology

Communications
	Semiotics
	Mass media
	Language, linguistics, and philosophy of language

Minority experiences
	Feminism
	Blacks
	Indians
	Others.

Cultural Anthropology

History of sociology


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Sociology

Definitions of sociology.

What are the social sciences?

Social sciences cover politics, economics, sociology, anthropology.

Social sciences as soft sciences, as distinguished from hard sciences, or natural sciences of astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.


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METHODOLOGY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

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Philosophy of the social sciences

Basic philosophical issues in the social sciences.

The individual as the basic social unit
vs.
The group as the basic social unit


Metaphysics of the social sciences.

Epistemology of the social sciences.

Ethics and the social sciences.


Descriptive and explanatory.  Value free.
Normative.  Prescriptive.  Ethics.  Values.



Animal sociology.
Herd animals.
Animal communication.


The social sciences study humans.
Is the sciences of humans different from the natural sciences.

Animals also have minds.
Are the sciences that study beings with minds different from the sciences that study inanimate objects?


Methodologial individualism.
Methodological holsim.

Causal explanations.
Functional explanations. 


Social methods not like natural sciences
Verstehen
Understanding
Hermenutics
Interpretation
Literary theory and criticism.




Are the social sciences different from the natural sciences?

Is sociology different from pscyhology?

If different, is sociology (and politics, economics, etc) reducible to psychology?



In what ways are humans social.  
Is there a human nature?  
If so, does human nature have a social component?

Is man a social animal?
Can people live alone?  Hermits.


Society
What is society?



Communication.
Power.
Sexuality.


Economic approaches.  Marxism.
Communication approaches.  Literary theory.
Sex approaches.  Feminism.
Power approaches.
Tech approaches.


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Science of sociology

Research methods.  
Methodology.

Experiment
	Control and variable.
	Ethics of experimenting on human subjects.

Observation of cultures.
	Hidden observers.
	Observers accepted into culture.
	Recording observations with camera, recorder, camcorder, etc.
	Field observation: watch a group.
	Participant observation: take part in a group.

Survey and interview
	Construction of unbiased surveys
	Ask questions.
	No leading questions.  Neutral bias.


behaviorism
empiricism

theory
facts

hard sci vs. soft sci.

Historical Approaches

Panel analysis.  Measures people's attitudes.  Focus groups.

Mathematical methods.  Statistical methods.  Quantitative.

Content Analysis.  Uses texts.

understanding
interpretation
hermeneutics


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Major sociological approaches

Micro level
	Social Psychology
	Dyads.  Triads.  Interaction.
	Small groups.
Macro level approaches.
	Institutions.  Structuralism.
	Society.  Culture.
	World


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Levels.  

Micro

micro-sociology
Interaction between individuals.
Interactions between small groups.
social psychology
dyads, triads, etc.

micro approaches
Symbolic interactionism.  Focuses on communicaton.
Ethnomethodology.  Agreeing on shared meanings.
Exchange theory.  Bargaining.
Critical theory.  Rejects neutral objectivity.  Aim is to change social policy.


Macro-sociology
Interactions between large groups.
Society as a whole.  Cultures of societies.

Macro approaches
Functional analysis.  Society is an interdependent set of institutions.
Conflict theory.


macro sociology
global - globalization
national - is there national character?


List of approaches

Interaction (mechanism)

Symbolic interaction.  Roles.  Cooley and Mead.

Dramaturgy.  Social interaction as a play.

Ethnomethodology.  Rules, methods.

Functional analysis.  
Functional analysis focuses on the mechanism of how individuals interact and how groups interact.

Structural analysis.
Structural analysis focuses on how society is organized structurally.

Labeling theory.

Game theory.

Exchange theory.
Social interaction as economics, money, business.

Conflict theory.

Evolutionary approaches.

Economic approaches.  The individual rationally weighs all options and actions.

Communication theories.

Power theories.

Value theories.  Ethics and sociology.


behaviorism
describes who did what and who said what.
vs.
introspection
getting inside your own head
vs. 
inter-spectionism
trying to get inside the heads of other participants.


positivism: science based

formalism: logic based

relativism: culture dependent


structuralism
post structuralism

modernism
postmodernism

Transactional analysis: "Games people play".

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Social Psychology

Social cognition: 

social attribution, 

social biases, 

social schema

Self perception

attitudes

personality
identity
self

Social Interaction: 
avoidance
ingratiation
aggression

Social emotions.
Sympathy and empathy
Trust
Attraction.  Bonding.
Repulsion.  Distance.

Social Attitudes: formation, change

Impression formation.  How you view other people.
Impression management.  How you want others to view you.

Egoism
Altruism

Assertion
vs.
Aggression
Violence.  Psychological, verbal, physical.

conformity, 
rebellion

Reciprocity

Economic aspects.  Bargaining.

Political aspects.  Political participation.
Influence, power, leadership, authority, 

Prejudice.

Achievement needs

Brainwashing and propaganda.

Social roles.







Social Psychology

Attitudes.
Attitudes about self in a social context
Attitudes about others
	About other individuals.
	About other groups.

Stereotyping.
Prejudice.
Bigotry.

First impressions.

Social cognition
Social emotions
Social memories.

Social interaction.
	Communication
	Physical touch

Social influence.
Social power

Attraction
Friendship
Falling in love.

Conflict theories
Agression.

Exchange theories
Economic approaches to social psychology

Group processes
Group communication

Networks



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Family

Nuclear families
Extended families.

Parent - child relationships
	Mothers and daughters
	Mothers and sons
	Fathers and daughters
	Fathers and sons

Sibling relationships
	Brothers
	Sisters
	Brother and sister

Birth order

Status of boys vs. girls in third world countries.  Infanticide.  Dowry.

Average family size.  Per education level.  Per income level.

Birth control


Family
	biological family vs. 
	choosing your own family

Changing roles of husband and wife.
	Single income, husband working, wife raising kids.
	Dual income, both working, both raising kids.

Marriage and Divorce.
	Civil and religious marriage.
	How many marriages end in divorce?
	What is the average length of marriage?
	How many marriages does the average person have?
	How many people live together without ever getting married?


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Kinship.  
	Kinship by blood.  
	Kinship by marriage.

Clan

Tribe

Gift giving.  No payback required.
Favor giving.  Payback required.
Reciprocation

Altruism
Cooperation
Exchange

Cooperation
Competition
Conflict


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Micro level sociology

structure, organization
mechanisms, dynamics, interaction

Friendship.  Making.  Breaking.

friends, enemies, and strangers
love and lust

small group dynamics


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Groups

Group structure

Group mechanism.  Group dynamics.

group life cycle
	group formation
	group dispersal

Clubs
Gangs
Cliques
Committees
Fraternities and sororities

Peer pressure


Types of groups
	primary vs. secondary groups
	in groups and out groups
	reference groups


Group size.   
	Small groups 
		each member knows others
			know by name
			know by face
			know by views.  talk to each other.
	Large groups
		members don't know each other.

How many groups are there in a society (world)?

How many members in each group?
	What percentage of total population?

Group think.


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Organizations.

Organization behavior

bureaucracy
management
administration

in business, 
in government


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Social institutions


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Societies


Cultures

Elements of culture.

	People
		Attitudes
		Behaviors
			Customs.  Patterns.  Taught.  Repetitive.

	Stuff they make.  

	Norms, taboos, laws and values.
		Positive sanctions: rewards
	Negative sanctions: punishments.  

	Symbols and language.


Material culture 
Non-material culture.

	
Sub-cultures

Counter-cultures


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Demography
Demography is the study of populations levels.

Population levels.

Population level change 
	growth 
	decline

Fertility rates.

Death rates.
Life expectancy.

Population movements.   Migration.

Zero population growth.


Sustainable population levels.

When population exceeds carrying capacity you have a problem.
	Ecological carrying capacity.
	Economic carrying capacity.
	Technological carrying capacity.

World population levels.

Census.
Accuracy of census.

Population theories
	Malthus vs. 
	Marx.
	
How many people can the world hold?  Depending on how ecologically they live.

At what population level, and in what coming decade, will the population stabilize and stop increasing (0% pop growth).  2050?  12 billion?

What causes birth rates to stabilize?  Education?  Industrialization?


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Crime
Crimes defined as acts that are both unethical and illegal.
Crimes defined as acts that are illegal.

Criminology
The study of crime.

Broken window theory

Causes of crime.

Crime prevention.

Types of crime


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Assimilation

Accommodation

Diversity vs.
Integration

"Melting pot" theories
Everyone becomes alike.

"Beautiful mosaic" theories
People live together but maintain differences and diversity.


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Socialization

Nature vs. nurture.

Effects of isolation.  
	on children 
	on adults.

Agents of socialization
	family, 
	peers, 
	media, 
	school, 
	work.

Stages of socialization.  
	Erikson.    
	Kohlberg.  
	Freud.  
	Mead.
	Piaget.


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Conformity 

rebellion.

aberration

deviance


Explanations of deviance
	biological
	psychological
	sociological

	Structural stress theory.  
		Economic stress
		Political stress

	Cultural transmission theory.  
		You learn it from a group.

	Conflict theory

	Labeling theory.  You get marked as a deviant.  
		They call you one and either you believe it and internalize it
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Class, status and mobility.

Class
	Class based on birth.  
		Aristocracy.  Gentry.  Landowners.  
	Economic classes.  
		Upper class.  The rich.
		Middle class
		Lower class.  The poor. 
	Meritocracy
		Technocrats.

Class societies
Classless societies.

Class mobility
	High mobility 
	low mobility societies.
	
Wealth.  

Power.  

Prestige: recognized as high status.  Ex. Doctors.  

Fame: well known, not necessarily wealthy or powerful.

Status
Status can refer to your position in society.
Status can refer to people of high position.


Castes


Separatism vs. 
Collectivism.

People use any excuse to turn
Social divisions.  Social segments.  Social differentiation.
into
Social stratification.  Pecking orders.  Position.

Equality.

status, 
wealth
prestige

race, 
ethnicity

sex
age



Class in America is a big issue.  Rich and poor.  Powerful and disempowered.

America is not, and has never been, a classless society.

To a certain extent, America is governed by the rich and powerful, for the rich and powerful.  The poor and powerless get exploited.  That is injustice.




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Power

Authority - able to cause changes

Legitimacy - recognized by others as worthy of power.

Illegitimate power.
	Unethical seizing of power.
	Unethical exercise of power.	

Nature of power
	Power viewed as a corrupting tendency.
	Power viewed as tending to increase itself and perpetuate itself.

Types of power
	Political power.
		Capacity to make law.
		Capacity to judge laws.
		Capacity to argue laws.  Buying lawyers.
	Economic power.
		Money is power.
			Influencing law makers.
			Influencing the media
			Influencing public opinion.
	
Theories on power.
	Marxist view.
	Power elite view.  C. Wright Mills.
	Pluralist view.



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Sociology by geographic area.
	Urban
	Suburban
	Rural
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Urban Life

The movement of people from the farm to the city.

Gemeinshaft (sociable community) vs. 
Gesellshaft (impersonal society)

Anomie.  Alienation vs. community.  
Isolation and withdrawal vs. involvement and interaction.

Life cycle of cities.

Urbanization worldwide.

Urban areas expose people to much social interaction.
Urban areas are usually more diverse.
Urban areas are usually more tolerant.



Urbanization.

Over the last century people have been moving from rural areas (farms) to urban areas (cities).
The size of cities is growing.  The population of cities is growing.

Megacities.  Megalopolis.

Japan
	Osaka - Tokyo.
Brazil
	Rio De Janero - San Paulo
US.
	Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston.
Mexico
	Mexico City


Shanty towns and urban poor.

Pollution.

Traffic accidents kill more than malaria.



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Suburbs

The suburbs as a consequence of the invention of the automobile.

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Rural areas.

Farm areas

Small town sociology.

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Wilderness areas.

Mountain peoples and cultures.

Jungle peoples and cultures.

Desert peoples and cultures.

Arctic peoples and cultures.

These people usually prize independence.


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Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Crowds
	Types of crowds
		peaceful vs. angry
		in control vs. out of control
	Mob behavior.
		Lessening of personal inhibitions.  
		Lack of personal responsibility.

Social Movements
	grassroots political movements

Fads, fashions, crazes.

Riots and panics.

Mass hysteria

Rumors


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Social Change

Types of views of social change
	Evolutionary perspective.  We are making progress.
	Cyclical perspective.  Swing back and forth like pendulum.
	Dystopian views.  Everything is going down the toilet.

Sources of change
	Demographic changes
	Technological changes.
	New ideas and attitudes.  Philosophy and science.
	Diffusion of ideas.

Forces of convergence vs. 
forces of divergence.

Forces that spread culture
	Communication.  Transportation.
Forces that prevent culture from spreading.
	Isolationism.  

Forces that change culture.
	Progressives.
Forces that prevent culture from changing.
	Reactionaries.

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Social networks
Six degrees of separation theory

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Tannen.  You just don't understand
Grey.  Men are from mars, women from venus.
Spock.  Raising kids.

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Areas of sociology

Sociology of work
Sociology of leisure

Sociology of education

Sociology of internet

sociology of politics
sociology of law

sociology of health and illness

sociology of philosophy - see that book by
sociology of science - Thomas Kuhn, Gaston Bachelard, Irme Lakatos
Sociology of knowledge
sociology of mass media - television, radio, Internet, movies, books, magazines, music
sociology of information
sociology of entertainment

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globalization

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roles
	Job roles.
	Family roles.
	Citizen roles.

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sociology of the body
body language

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age and sociology

children
child abuse
adolescence
old age
generations

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alienation

anomie

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leaders
leadership
charisma
followers

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ideologies

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community
a small group 
related by physical  proximity
not related by kinship

Examples
neighborhood
town

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Biology and sociology.

Evolution and sociology

positive views
	evolutionary sociology
	sociobiology
	evolutionary universals

pejorative, negative views
	biological reductionism
	social Darwinism
	eugenics

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sociology of work and leisure

work
labor unions
work at home
housework
flextime
childcare
division of labor
HR benefits
de-skilling
work ethic
workaholics

leisure


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Evolution of society and culture
	hunters and gatherers
	agricultural
	feudal
	industrial economies
	service economies
	information or knowledge economies

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pop culture

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Patriotism
Nationalism
Xenophobia

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open societies

closed societies

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stereotypes
prejudice
labeling
scapegoating
ostracism
shunning
mocking

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Sects
new religious movements NRM's

religion life cycle - religions born and die
dead religions
newly born religions

shamans
witchdoctors

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Verstehen: understanding.

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Ethnocentrism: thinking your culture is best.

Xenophobia: afraid of other cultures.

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Emic (view from within) vs. 

Etic (view from outside)

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social constructionism

consumption society

hidden curriculum


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COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Communication.  
	Semiotics.  
Language.  
	Philosophy of language
	Science of language: Linguistics
		Types of languages
		Phonology
		Grammar
Mass media


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Communication

Verbal communication
Non-verbal communication

Speaking
Writing
	alphabetic
	pictograms.

Animal communication systems
Insect communication.
	Honeybee dance.
Bird song
Sea mammals.
	Whale song.  
	Dolphins.
Primates.
	Chimpanzees.


What are the differences between animal communication and human language?
Some animals have a limited, pre-defined set of signals. 
Humans can add words to their vocabularies.


Attempts of communication between non-human animals and human animals.
	Parrots.
	Koko

Attempts of communication between extraterrestrials and humans
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Semiotics

Semiotics studies symbol systems like 
	Math
	Logic notation
	Computer languages
	Artificial languages like Esperanto
	Natural languages like English
	Semaphore.  Morse code.  Sign language.  Hobo signs.
	Music notation.
	Dance notation.
	

C.S. Pierce's tripartite typology
Sign
Symbol
Icon


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Language

What is language?
	Attributes of language
		Infinite number of sentences possible

Ways to study language
	Philosophy of language
	Science of language: linguistics.


Theories of language


Language and world.

Language and mind.

Natural languages.
Artifical languages.
	Esperanto.
	Formal languages.
		Leibniz's ideal universal language
		Scientific language.  Exact.
		Math as a language.
		Logic as a language.
		Computer languages.

Evolutionary views of language.


Language of thought.  Fodor.

Continental views of language.  Deconstruction.  Literary theory.

Private language argument.


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Philosophy of language

Contents of Issues in the philosophy of language
Meaning.  Semantics.
Reference
Names and naming
Designation.  Rigid Designatiors.  Flacid designators.  Kripke.
Description.  Definite description.  Indefinite description.  Russel.
Sense and Reference.  Sinn and Bedeutung.  Frege.
Speech acts.  Searle
Grice.  
Definition.
Translation.  Indeterminacy of translation.  Quine.
Indeterminacy of reference.
Metaphor
Indexicals
Demonstratives.
Private language argument.
Naturalized semantics.
Realism and language.
Holism and language.

Language and mind.
Innateness of language.  Universal grammar.  Chomsky.
Representational theories of mind.
Language of thought.  Fodor.


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Meaning: the link between language and the mind.

Reference: the link between language and the world.

Experience: The link between the mind and the world.

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Meaning.

There are various meanings of the word "meaning".


Literal meaning.
Figurative meaning.

Emotive meaning.
Cognitive meaning.

Content.  What the words mean.
Context.  What the surroundings are.  Meaning holists hold that meaning is dependent on context.

Word meanings.
Sentence meanings.




What is meaning?
Meaning is a property of sentences, statements and propositions.  Propositional attitudes include thoughts, beliefs and intentions.

Meaning and thought.
Meaning and speech.
Meaning and social practice.





Theories of Meaning


Correspondence theory of meaning.


Truth conditional theories of meaning.
Meaning as truth conditions

Verificationist theory of meaning.
Tarksi on meaning.  The Logical positivists said that to know the meaning of a sentence is to know in what cases that sentence is true.


Use based theories of meaning.
Theory of meaning as use.


Mentalist theories of meaning.
Mentalist theories of meaning focus on the role of meaning in the mind.  The role of a word's meaning to other word's meanings.  The role of meaning in thinking.

Reference theories of meaning.
Reference theories of meaning focus in the relationship of meaning and the world.  Reference theories of meaning hold that meaning is primarily about reference.  There are various theories of reference.
Frege distinguishes reference (bedeutung) from sense (sinn).
Russel has a theory of definite descriptions.
Kripke has a theory of rigid designators.

Truth conditional theories of meaning.
Davidson.

Eliminativist theories of meaning.

Causal theories of meaning.

Information based theories of meaning. 
Dretske.  Millikan.

Conceptual role theories of meaning.
Fodor

Inferential role theories of meaning.
Sellars.

Meaning coherentism, holism, relativism.
The meaning of a word is defined by using other words.
The meaning of an sentance is described by using other sentences.
The meaning of an idea is done by through using other ideas.  

Meaning realism

Compositionality of meaning.  
Meaning of sentences depends on meaning of words.



Wittgenstein on meaning.  
(1) Picture theory of meaning.  Early Wittgenstein saw meaning as a picture that shows how things are.  
(2) Meaning as use.  Later Wittgenstein said that one should not ask for the meaning of a word, instead one should ask how a word is used.  Meaning as assertability conditions.


Quine on meaning.  
Quine is skeptical about meaning.  Quine is skeptical about reference, as illustrated by his "gavagai" example.  Quine's theory of indeterminancy of translation is skeptical about meaning.

Grice on meaning.  
Grice is concerned with utterer's meaning or speakers intention.  Grice is concerned with an area of linguistics known as pragmatics.  

Davidson on meaning.  
Davidson's truth conditional theory of meaning.  Davidson defines meaning in terms of truth.  Davidson develops Tarski's ideas of truth.  

J.L. Austin on meaning.
Austin is concerned with illocutionary acts or speech acts.  Austin influenced John Searle who also developed a theory of speech acts.






Meaning as set, and objective.
vs.
Meaning as variable, and subjective.



Semantics.


Semantic paradoxes.
The liar paradox.  





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Reference

What is reference?  
To designate, denote or refer.



Theories of reference.


Names and Naming


Description theory of reference.
What is it: Definite description.  Indefinite description.  
Who holds it: Russel.
Arguments for it:
Arguments against it:




Causal-Historical theory of reference.
Who holds it: Kripke and Putnam.  Kripke in Naming and Necessity.
Designation.  Rigid Designatiors.  Flacid designators.  Kripke.



Sense and Reference.  Sinn and Bedeutung.  Frege.

Frege made a distinction between sense and reference.  

Reference is the object you are talking about.

Sense is when you use two synonyms to refer to the same thing.



Skeptical view of reference.
Quine.  Indeterminacy of reference.  Indeterminacy of translation.


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Pragmatics

Speech act theory.  J.L. Austin.  John Searle.


Conversational implicature.  Grice.




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Four types of sentences
Meaningless sentences.  Nonsense.
False sentences.  Untrue.
Vague sentences.  Unclear meaning.
Ambiguous sentences.  Two or more meanings.

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Proposition

statement

sentence

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Philosophy studies the concept of meaning in general.

Semantics is the study of the meaning of specific words.


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Denotation.  Denotative meaning.

Connotation.  Connotative meaning.

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Realism in the philosophy of language
	Semantic realism

Anti-realism in philosophy of language

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Holism in the philosophy of language
	Semantic holism

Anti-holism ?

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Private language arguments

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Radical interpretation
Meaning holism
Indeterminacy of translation

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Compositionality

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Rule following in language (Wittgenstein and Kripke)

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Naming and Necessity (Kripke)
Names.  
Necessity.  
Possible worlds.  
Rigid designation.
Indexicals 
Demonstratives

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Philosophers of language.
Wittgenstein.
Davidson.
Chomsky.
Grice.
Kripke.
Montague.


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Linguistics.
Linguistics is the scientific study of languages.

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Synchronic
Study of language at any given time.
Static.

Diachronic
Study of languages through time.
Evolution of languages
Dynamic.

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Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics studies the psychological aspects of language.
Role of language in thinking.

Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics studies the sociological aspects of language
Role of language in communication between people.


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Semantics

Semantics is the study of the meaning in language.

Meaning at the word level.

Meaning at the sentence level.

Lexemes: the smallest units of meaning.

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Context.  
The meaning of a word depends on the context in which it is used.  The surrounding words and sentences.

Subtext.  
A dialogue or conversation often has a subtext of unspoken yet shared understandings.

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Implicit meaning

Explicit meaning

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vagueness

ambiguousness

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Synonym
Same meaning, or similar meaning.

Antonym
Opposite meaning.

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Definition
Types of definitions
Inclusive definition - to say what a thing is.
Exclusive definition - to say what a thing is not.
Ostensive definition - to give an example
Definition by description.
Definition by explanation.

Is to define a word to say what that word means?
To define a word is to say what that word means.


Dictionaries.
Dictionaries are attempts to define the meanings of words.
The dictionary gives the "official spelling" and the "official meaning" of a word.

Samuel Johnson's dictionary of English.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED).


Thesaurus
Thesaurus as listing categories of related words.
	Organized by category.
Thesaurus as listing synonyms and antonyms.
	Usually in alphabetical order.


Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias attempt to summarize the entire body of knowledge of all subjects and words.


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Phonology.

Phonology is the study of the sounds used in language.

Phoneme
Phonemes are the smallest sound components of a language

Vowels
Consonants

Syllables.
Stress.

How many distinctive language sounds are there in the world?
Which languages have the most and least sounds?

Phonetics. 

Sound production

Larynx
Tounge
Lips


Phonemes of English

Phonemes of other languages.
Click languages of African tribes.

Phonemes of the world
The entire set of human language phonemes.


Hearing language.
Do humans hear and interpret word by word?


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homonym

homophone

Sounds the same, spelt differently.

Sounds the same, spelt the same, different meaning.


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Morphology

Morphology is the study of words forms.

Morphemes.  Parts of words.
Roots
Prefixes
Suffixes
Compound words

Examples in English

Add a suffix to create a plural.   Tree.  Trees.
Add a suffix to create a verb.  Hike.  Hiking.

Add a prefix to create an opposite.   Political, apolitical.  Non.  Dis.  Mis.
Add a prefix to create temporality.  Pre.  Post.


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Lexicography.
Lexicography studies the words in a language.

Vocabulary.
Vocabulary is the set of words in the language of an individual or culture.

How many words are there in the world?

Which language has the most words, the least words?

Which words are used most often in the world?

Basic English was an attempt to reduce English to 850 common words.

How many meanings can there be per word?  Which word has the most meanings?


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Syntax.  

Grammar.
What does grammar do?

Grammar adds meaning, or makes language more meaningful, by prescribing what words can be combined with what words, and how words can be combined.

Grammar is a set of language rules.
	
Grammar as a set of language norms.
	Grammar is always changing.


Syllable level.
Word level.
Sentence level.


Universal grammar.  
Noam Chomsky.


Types of language grammars.
	Word order to signal grammatic forms.
		Ex. S-V-O
	Word prefixes and suffixes to signal grammatic forms.
	

Grammar can signal
Gender
Tense or time.
Case.
Active or passive voice.

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Grammar at the word level.
Grammar at the sentence level.


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Grammatical categories.

Case.  Nominative.
Gender.  Male, female, neutral.
Number.  Singular or plural.
Person.  First, second, third.
Aspect.  Perfect or imperfect.
Mood.  Indicative, subjunctive.
Tense.  Past, present, future, perfect.
Voice.  Active, passive.

Possessives.


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Types of words by their grammatical use.

Nouns
Nouns are words describing a person, place, thing, event or idea.

Verbs
Verbs are words describing actions.

Adverbs
Adverbs are words that qualify verbs.

Adjectives
Adjectives are words  that qualify nouns.

Prepositions
Examples: 

Pronouns.
Examples: 

Prepositions.
Examples: 

Conjunctions.
Examples: 


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Phrases

Noun phrase

Verb phrase


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Clauses
	Dependent clauses
	Independent clauses


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Sentence structure

SVO

Subject
Verb
Object


English grammar.


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Pragmatics.

Tone, 

Pitch, 
	High pitch
	Low pitch.

Timbre, 

Distance between speakers
	Close talkers
	Far talkers.

Volume of speech
	Loud talkers 
	Quiet talkers.


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Uses of language

To think by talking to yourself.

To communicate by talking to other people.


Uses of language.

Exact languages: 
	Formal languages.  
	Scientific language.  
	Legal language.  

Inexact languages: 
	Figurative language.  
	Literature.  
	Poetry.  
	Associative language.  
	Allusive language.  
	Metaphorical language.  


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Types of languages

Natural languages.

Artificial languages.
	Esperanto.
	Computer languages.
	Morse code.
	Semaphore code.

Languages of the deaf.
	Sign language.
		Letter by letter.
		Word by word.

Languages of gesture between people who don't speak same language.


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Classification of languages.

Based on phonology.

Based on grammar.

Based on semantics? 

Based on the evolution of languages.
	Divergence.
	Convergence.

The language tree based on human migration.
	The language of the first humans in Africa.
	Proto Indo-European
	Major modern language families
		Indo-European

		
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Determining the age of a language.
	How long its been spoken.
	How much its changed in that time.

	
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Language change
	Phonological change 
		Vowel shifts
		Consonant changes.
	Grammatical change
		New sentence constructions forming.
		Old sentence constructions dying.
	Vocabulary change
		New words forming.
		Old words dying.
	Semantic change
		Changes in word meanings.
			New meanings to words forming.
			Old meanings to words dying.
		Neologisms.  New word creation.
		Words exiting the vocabulary.

What causes language change?
	Geographic isolation.
	Geographic dispersion.
	Environmental change.
	Technological change.  New situations, new inventions, new ideas.


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Translation of written texts.
	Human translation
	Machine translation

Interpretation between speakers.
	Human interpretation
	Machine interpretation.


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The Plain English movement.
Plain speaking and writing.
To avoid legal, medical, business jargon.


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Writing

Spelling.

Punctuation.


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dialect

accent


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creole


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euphemism


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Slang


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Evolution of language in humans

Theories of how language evolved in humans.
	The migration of the larynx in proto-humans.
	Language and social groups.
	Language and technology.

Is language innate?  To what degree?
	Chomsky

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Language acquisition in individuals

Language acquisition in children.  

Innateness of language.
Noam Chomsky.


First words.  Single words.

First sentences.
Two word sentences.


Language mistakes in children.
Mistakes made by not knowing the rules of English.
Mistakes made by following the rules, yet unaware of the exceptions.
Tense mistakes: Example, "I go-ed"
Plural mistakes: Example, "gooses"


Language acquisition in adults
After a certain age (around 10) language acquisition becomes more difficult.


Speaking.  Say a word.
Listening.  Understand a word said by others.

Speak a sentence.
Understand a sentence.

Reading 
Writing.


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Language and the brain.

Brocas area

Wernikes area.

Language disorders.  
Dyslexia
Aphasia

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Jerry Fodor.  
Mentalese, the language of thought.

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Role of language in human thought.
	Can humans be conscious without language?
	Can humans think without language? (natural language or semiotics) 
	Language of Thought theory

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Noam Chomsky
Universal grammar
generative linguistics
Deep structure
Transformational grammar
Government binding theory


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Artificial languages

Liebniz's perfect language.  Each word has a single meaning.
	
Esperanto

Computer languages and communication


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Loss of language diversity.  Endangered and extinct languages.

Endangered languages - few speakers left
Extinct languages - no one speaks them.
Last speaker stories.


How many languages were there in the 20th century?  Approximately 6000.
How many of those languages are in danger of dying?  Approximately half.


What is lost when a language dies?
A chance to use that language as a means to discover the history of languages.


Language homogenization.  
English as a common world language

English has many words taken from other languages.
For example, 
French words:
Aisian words:
African words:

English is spreading, but it is absorbing words from other languages as it spreads.


Eventually a world language may evolve, consisting of elements from words and constructions from many languages.

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Language purists.

Grammar hounds.  Those who are sticklers on correct grammar.

People who try to prevent change of languages.
For example, those trying to keep French pure.
Attempts at preventing the change of language are doomed to fail.

Attempts to enforce an "official" version of a language.

"Correctness" in language.

	Spelling.
	How is the "correct" spelling of a word determined?

	Pronunciation
	How is the "correct" pronunciation of a word determined?

	Meaning
	How is the "correct" meaning of a word determined?

	Grammar
	How is the "correct" grammatical use of a word agreed on?


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Discourse analysis
	Conversation
	Texts

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Sign language.
Sign language for the deaf.
Letter by letter sign languages.
Word by word sign languages.
Deafness
Muteness.

Other types of sign languages.
The signs used by third base coaches in baseball.


Braille.
Braille for the blind.
Helen Keller.

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Language isolation.
	Due to physical isolation.
	Due to geographic isolation.
Language mixing.
	Due to social interaction.

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Tone languages.  Word meaning vary by tone of pronunciation.

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Writing.

Grapheme 
Grapheme is the smallest unit of writing.  Usually a letter or pictogram.

Writing with letters.	
	Letters are combined to form words which represent ideas.
	Alphabets are the letters in a language.

Writing with pictograms.
	Each pictogram represents a word 
	Words represent ideas.
	Thus, each pictogram represents an idea.

Handwriting.
	Print handwriting.  
	Script handwriting.  
	Calligraphy.

Printing.  
Typography.

Spelling developed only  when writing developed.


Reading.

How quickly can people read?  Speed readers.

How much and how long can people retain when they read?  Photographic memories.

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Levels of language
Word level
Sentence level
Paragraph level
Chapter level
Book level
Library level

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Machines and language.

Speech to text machines.  Voice recognition.
Text to speech machines.

Handwriting to print machines.  Handwriting recognition.
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History of communication, semiotics, philosophy of language, and linguistics.

Frenchman's translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics using Rosetta stone.
Translation of Linear B.
Charles Sanders Pierce.  Semiotics
Saussure
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 
	Tractus: language atomism.  
	Philosophical investigations: language games
Linguistic analysis
Ordinary language philosophy
Bloomfield
Beneveniste.
Sapir
Whorf
Montague, Richard.  Grammar.
Claude Shannon.  Mathematical model of communication
Jacobson, Roman.
Noam Chomsky, universal grammer, hard wired language ability.
Steven Pinker, "The Language Instinct", language acquisition in children.
Saul Kripke.  Naming and designation.
Jerry Fodor.  Language of thought or Mentalese.
Paul Grice.  Principles of charity.  Conversational implicature.
John Searle.  Speech acts.




Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.  
	Culture shapes language.  
	Language then shapes how individual thinks.
	Language determines the contents of your mind.


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MASS MEDIA STUDIES

Contents
Publishing
Radio
Television
Internet.

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PUBLISHING

Invention of writing, paper, pens.

Invention of printing presses.
	Movable type.  Each letter separate.
	Linotype - printing by the line.
	Printing by page plates.
	Computer composition

Broadsheets.  Single page newspapers.
	Tomas Paine.
	Zenger.

Multipage newspapers.

Freedom of the press.  Free speech.
Was the government going to allow public dissent?  Yes in America.
Newspaper publishers.

Major newspapers.
US. New York Times.  LA Times.  Washington Post.
World.
	England.
	Germany.
	France.


Newspaper sections
The editorial page.
The gossip column.
Arts and culture section.
Business section.
Sports section.
Comics.  Horoscope.  Weather.
Classified ads.
Regular ads.


Yellow journalism.
Scandal journalism.
Sensationalism.
Papparazzi.
No respect of the private life of "public figures".
Purient interest in the sex lives of people.
Rumor mongering.
Vicious Lies.
Lack of ethics.


Fictitious journalism 
Some newspapers mix stories that are patently false with stories that are true.
Newspaper as entertainment as well as information.  "Infotainment"
Enquirer. Sun.


Books
Book Publishers.
	The rise of the paperback book in the 1950's.  
	Scribners.  Knopf.
	Electronic books.


Journals.
Advancement of sciences via journals.

Magazines.
Clare Booth Luce.
Time.  Life.
Color printing.


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RADIO

Invention of radio by Marconi in the 1920's.
Broadcasting companies arise.

AM radio.  Amplitude modulation.
FM radio.  Frequency modulation.



Formats.

Performance radio
	More popular before television.
	Ex. Amos and Andy.
	Orson Welles and Mercury Theater production of H.G. Well's "War of the Worlds"

Music radio.
	"Lite" music.

Talk radio.
	Political talk.
	Financial talk.
	Sports talk.
	
College radio.

Public radio.


Live radio
	Truly live
	7 second delay radio.
Pre-recorded radio.  Not live.


Ham radio
Pirate radio.  Illegal offshore and cross-border stations.


Jocks.
Shock jocks.
Music jocks.
Talk hosts.

Famous jocks.
Howard Stern.  Self styled "king of all media"  
Murray the K. - helped popularize rock and roll.  Helped launch the Beatles.
Wolfman Jack.  See American Graffiti.
Cousin Brucie.
Don Imus.

Music jocks
WNEW  Scott Muni. Ken Dashow.  Pete Fornatele.  Carol Miller.
Alison Steele.
Vince Gelsa.  Idiots Delight.


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TELEVISION

Invention of television by Philo T. Farnsworth.
Sarnoff grabs control by taking Farnsworth to court.  Corporate domination.

Commercial television
	Major networks.  ABC.  NBC.  CBS.
	Smaller networks.  WB.  UPN.  Fox.  Arose in the eighties.
	Local television.  WOR.  WPIX.  WNEW.

Public television.
	Non-commercial television.
	User supported television.
	Independent television.
	Ex. PBS.

Antennae television.
	Stations in urban areas.  Poor reception in rural areas.
	Nationally syndicated shows.

Cable television.
	Many more channels.  Ex. Discovery channel.  History channel.  Tech tv.
	Public access television.  More people can produce a show.  Ex. Wayne & Garth.
	
Satellite television.  
	Greater range of reception.

UHF
VHF


Television formats
News.  Local news.  
Talk.  Ex. 
Reality television.  Ex. Survivor.  Big Brother.
Shock television.  Ex. Jerry Springer.  
Late Night Comedy.  Ex. Carson.  Letterman.



List of Television Shows

1950's	(Comedy)	Milton Berle
1950's	(Comedy)	Honeymooners
1950's	(Talk)	Steve Allen  Show
1960's	(Comedy)	Dick Van Dyke show.
1960's	(Comedy)	Andy Griffith Show.
1960's	(Comedy)	Odd Couple
1960's	(Comedy)	Get Smart
1960's	(Comedy)	Munsters
1960's	(Comedy)	Petticoat Junction.
1960's	(Comedy)	Gilligans Island
1960's	(Western)	Bonanza
1970's	(Cartoons)	Japanes Animie.  Speed Racer.  Kimba the White Lion.  Johhnny Quest.  Space Ghost.  
1970's	(Cartoons)	Hanna Barberra.  Yogi Bear.  Dick Dastardly and Muttley.  Anthill Mob.  Penelope Pitstop.  Scooby Doo.  Flintstones.
1970's	(Cartoons)	Looney Tunes.  Bugs Bunny.  Daffy Duck.  Porky Pig.  Elmer Jaye Fudd.
1970's	(Childrens)	Zoom
1970's	(Childrens)	Electric Company
1970's	(Childrens)	Sesame Street
1970's	(Childrens)	Wonderrama
1970's	(Childrens)	Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
1970's	(Childrens)	New Zoo Review.
1970's	(Chidlrens)	HR Puffinstuff.
1970's	(Chidlrens)	Bannana Splits
1970's	(Chidlrens)	Brady Bunch
1970's	(Chidlrens)	Partridge Family
1970's	(Comedy)	Happy Days
1970's	(Comedy)	Laverne and Shirley
1970's	(Comedy)	Mork and Mindy
1970's	(Comedy)	Barney Miller
1970's	(Comedy)	Welcome Back, Kotter
1970's	(Comedy)	Different Strokes.
1970's	(Comedy)	Benson
1970's	(Comedy)	Taxi
1970's	(Comedy)	Mary Tyler Moore show.
1970's	(Comedy)	Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
1970's	(Comedy)	Soap
1970's	(Comedy)	The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
1970's	(Comedy)	Good Times.
1970's	(Comedy)	Jeffersons.
1970's	(Comedy)	Benson.
1970's	(Comedy)	Different Strokes.
1970's	(Comedy)	WKRP in Cinncinati.
1970's	(Comedy)	Hello Larry.
1970's	(Drama - Medical)	Emergency
1970's	(Drama - Legal)	Starsky and Hutch.
1970's	(Drama - Legal)	Baretta.
1970's	(Drama - Legal)	Charlie's Angels.
1970's	(Drama - Legal)	Columbo.
1970's	(Drama - Legal)	Rockford Files
1970's	(Drama - Legal)	Perry Mason.  Barnaby Jones.
1970's	(Drama - Legal)	Starsky and Hutch.
1970's	(Drama)	Masterpiece Theater with Alistar Cooke.
1970's	(Drama)	Daytime Drama.  Soap Operas.  The Days of Our Lives.  As the World Turns.  
1970's	(Fantasy, Sci Fi)	Six Million Dollar Woman.
1970's	(Fantasy, Sci Fi)	Six million Dollar Man.
1970's	(Fantasy, Sci Fi)	Fantasy Island
1970's	(Fantasy, Sci Fi)	Love Boat
1970's	(Game shows)	Match Game.  Jeaopardy.  $20,000 Pyramid.  Password.  Family Feud.  Price is Right.  Lets Make a Deal.
1970's	(Music)	American Bandstand
1970's	(Talk shows)	Mike Douglas Show.
1970's	(Talk shows)	Merv Griffen show
1970's	(Talk)	Tom Snyder.
1970's	(Variety)	Pink Lady and Jeff.
1970's	(Variety)	Real People
1970's	(Variety)	That's Incredible
1970's	(Variety)	Gong Show
1980's	(Comedy)	Wings
1980's	(Comedy)	Cheers
1980's	(Comedy)	Late Night with David Letterman.
1980's	(Comedy)	America's Funniest Home Videos
1980's	(Comedy, blue collar)	Roseanne.
1980's	(Comedy, blue collar)	Drew Carey Show.
1980's	(Comedy, blue collar)	Home Improvement.
1980's	(Comedy, blue collar)	Jeff Foxworthy Show.
1980's	(Comedy, blue collar)	Dukes of Hazard.
1980's	(Drama - Medical)	ER
1980's	(Drama - Legal)	Magnum PI
1980's	(Drama - Legal)	Cagney and Lacey
1980's	(Drama - Legal)	Quincy
1980's	(Drama - Legal)	Murder She Wrote
1980's	(Drama - Legal)	Matlock
1980's	(Drama - Legal)	Hill Street Blues
1980's	(Drama)	Luke and Laura's wedding.  Soap Opera.
1980's	(Drama)	Dallas.  Who shot Jr.
1980's	(Music)	MTV
1990's	(Cartoon)	Simpsons
1990's	(Comedy)	Seinfeld
1990's	(Comedy)	Friends
1990's	(Music)	Soul Train
1990's	(News)	60 Minutes.  Frontline.  Dateline.  Nightline.  ABC Nightly News.  Peter Jennings.  Ted Koppel.  Dan Rather.    
1990's	(Fantasy, Sci Fi)	Twin Peaks
1990's	(Fantasy, Sci Fi)	X Files
1990's	(Science)	Nova
1990's	(Talk)	Charlie Rose on Channel 2, then Fox, then PBS
1990's	(Talk)	Dick Cavett Show
2000's	(Reality television)	Real World.  Survivor.  Temptation Island.  The Bachelor.  The Apprentice.
2000's	(Variety)	American Idol.
Other		(Other)	Home repair shows: This Old House.
Other		(Other)	Hobby shows: Bob Ross Painting.  Antique Road Show.
Other		(Other)	Cooking shows: Julia Child.  Galloping Gourmet.  Yan Can Cook.  
Other		(Other)	Daytime:  Maury.  Montel.  Ricki Lake.  Oprah.  Jerry Springer.  Phil Donahue.


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INTERNET

Invention of html and http by Tim Berners Lee

Internet as a popularist media.  Lack of corporate domination.
Anyone can post a web page.
Anyone can read a web page.

How big is the Internet?
How many people use the Internet?  Worldwide.
How many websites are on the Internet?
How much information is on the Internet?  In terabytes.

How fast is the Internet growing?


How much time do people spend on Internet?
What do they spend time on Internet doing?
Shopping 25%
Porn 25%
Gaming 25%
Chatting 25%
Finding new useful information 1%
Posting new useful information 1%

Internet as classified ad.  Find a job.  Find an apartment.  Find a date.  Find a car.


Wep apps.  Online applications.  Example, office suite of word processor, spread sheet, database.
Web services.  Inter-working web apps.

Speech recognition
Handwriting recognition.


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FEMINISM

Women's studies.

Women's rights.
	Women's legal rights
	Women's extra-legal position in society.


Women have been oppressed by men for years.
Women were once considered property of men.  Slavery.
Women were denied the right to vote.
Women were denied the right to work, to support themselves, to make a living.
Women were and are physically abused by men.
And it still occurs today in many parts of the world.
And it can occur in the future.


Feminist issues

Body and sex issues.  
	Right to birth control.  
	Right to abortion.  
	Right not to be a sex object.  
	Right not to be raped.

Family issues.
	Right to choose a husband.  No arranged marriages.  
	Equal rights as husband.  
	Not property of husband.    

Work.  
	Right to work.  
	Right to be in military.

Economics.  
	Equal pay for work.
	Equal access to jobs.
	Equal access to promotion.  No glass ceiling.

Politics.
	Right to hold government offices.  
	Right to vote.  
	Right to hold office.

Other issues
	Androgyny.
	Beauty.
	Housework.
	Lesbianism
	Motherhood.
	Period.
	Madonna / Whore complex.
	Prostitution.
	Pornography.
	Female infanticide.
	Honor killings
	Dowry.

Right not to be forced into compulsory
	Heterosexuality
	Marriage
	Pregnancy.
	Housework.




History of feminism


1792.  Mary Wollstonecraft.  "A Vindication of the Rights of Women".

1848.  Seneca Falls, NY.  Women's Rights Convention.  Declaration of Sentiments.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

1869.  National Women's Sufferage Foundation.

1898.  Charlotte Perkins Gillman.  "Women and Economics".

Alice Paul.  British suffragete.

Susan B. Anthony.  United States suffragete.

Emma Goldman.  Anarchist, feminist.

1918.  Women gain the vote in England.

1920.  Women gain the right to vote in United States from 19th amendment.

1940's.  World War II.  Rosie the Riveter.  Women in the workplace.

Margret Sanger and birth control

1960's.  The pill

1970's.  Roe v Wade.  Abortion legal.

1960's.  National Organization of Women (NOW)

1950's.  Simone de Beauvoir.  "The Second Sex".

1960's.  Betty Friedan

1960's.  Gloria Steinem

1970.  Kate Millet.  "Sexual Politics".

1970.  Germaine Greer.  "Female Eunuch".

1970's.  Equal Right Amendment (ERA) movement.

1980's.  Catherine McKinnon.  Law.

1980's.  Andrea Dworkin.  Against pornography.

1990's.  Naomi Wollf.  "The Beauty Myth".

1990's.  The morning after pill.




Challenges
Violence against women.  Rape.  Date rape.
The burkha and the veil.
Clitorectomy.  Female genital mutilation.


Denied the vote.
Denied equality before the law.
Held as property.
Denied education.
Denied equal pay in the workplace.
Used as indentured servants.
Kept at home.
Denied birth control and abortions.


Women as not the property of the husband.
Gaining the right to work outside the home
Gaining the right to control their own bodies


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SEX STUDIES

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Sex (physical) 

Gender (psycho-social).

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Gender role socialization

Biology vs. culture.
Nature vs. nurture.
Instinct vs. learned

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Patriarchy 
Matriarchy 
Equality.

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Polygamy 
Monogamy.

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History of sex studies.

Havelock Ellis
Masters and Johnson
Kinsey Reports
Hite Reports

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Sexual theories and practices worldwide throughout history. 

Closed, repressive sexual mores.
Open, free sex mores.
Multiple husbands.  Polyandry.
Multiple wives.  Polygamy.
Multiple partners.


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Sexual practices, fantasies.

The following topics are subjects of sexual thoughts and behaviors.


Sex dreams.  Sex stories.  Sex fantasies.  Expand the major themes and scripts.

Power and sex
	Being forced.  Submission.  Masochism.
	Forcing others.  Dominance.  Sadism.

Seduction.  Titillation.  

Masturbation. 

Threesomes.  

Group sex.  Orgies.

Bisexuality.

Homosexuality.  Lesbians.  Gays.

Heterosexuality.

Ages of characters.  Old age.  Middle age.  40's.  30's.  20's.  College.  High school.  Teens.

First time.  Virgins.  Losing virginity.

Sci-fi and fantasy sex stories.  Robots.  Aliens.  Hobbits and elves.  Cartoon characters.

Older woman with younger man.  Older man with younger woman.

Role play.

School girls.  Cheerleaders.  

Baby sitters.

Medical, doctor and nurse.  Why no sex fantasies about cpa and lawyers?

The help, maids and butlers.  Why no sex fantasies about waiters?  These are stories about class.

Foot fetish.

Strip tease.  Dancing.  Music.  Porno videos.  

Cross dressing.  Gender bending.  

Oral sex.  

Anal sex.  

Voyeurs.  

Exhibitionists.

Places.  Settings.  Time and place.  
	In public.  vs.  In private.
	Historical sexual stories.  vs.  Futuristic sexual stories.  
	Foreign, exotic sexual stories.  vs.  Girl-next-door sexual stories.
	Daytime.  Nightime.  
	Winter.  Summer.  
	Vacation sex.  Beach sex.  Gym sex.  
	Sex at school.  Sex at work.

Taboo exploration.
	Scat: Urine and poo.
	Incest.
	Beasiality.  

Toys.  Objects.

Phone sex.

Computers, Internet and sex.  Instant messaging sex.  Cams.

Prostitutes.

Sex with strangers.  Sex with friends.  Sex with enemies.

Role playing.  You as you.  vs.  You as someone else other than you.

Sex and social class.  Sex among rich and poor.  

Sex in different cultures.



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Sexually transmitted diseases.
Curable
Incurable

Pregnancy
Birth control
Abortion.

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Sexual ethics
Unconsensual sexual acts are wrong.
Sexual harassment is wrong.  Sexual intimidation is wrong.
Rape is wrong.
Sexual slavery is wrong.  Forced prostitution is wrong.

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GLBT 
Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders
Fight for rights and acceptance.

Homosexuals
Arguments that it is genetic.
	Arguments that it is a mutation.
	Arguments that it is hereditary.
	Arguments that it cannot be changed.
Arguments that it is a learned behavior

Persecution of by 

Argument for, that consenting adults of the same sex should be free to have sex with each other.
Argument against, that it is un-natural.

Bisexuals.
	View that it exists.  View that people can be "both".
	View that it does not exist, and that people are "either or".

Transgenders
	Argument for, that many people modify their bodies.
	Argument against, that it is un-natural.

S&M practitioners
	Argument for, that it is a game.
	Argument against, that it is perverse.


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Pornography

Arguments for, that pornography is enjoyed by many people.
Argument for, that nudity is natural.
Arguments against, that pornography degrades women.
	Andrea Dworkin.  Cathrine MacKinnon
Argument against, that it incites males to violence.
Arguments against, that pornography is controlled by organized crime.


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Prostitution

Argument for, that its a source of income for women.
Argument for, that people need sexual outlets.
Argument for, that people need physical contact with other people.

Arguments against, that prostitution keeps women disempowered.
Arguments against, that prostitution is exploitation of women by men.
Arguments against, that prostitution is used by organized crime.


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Sex differences between men and women.

Social gender roles.

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Homosexuality
What percent of people are homosexual?
How do you define homosexuality?  Anyone who has thought about it?  Anyone who has done it once.
Anyone who doesn't do it with the opposite sex?
Anyone who has adopted it as a lifestyle.
Anyone who is in the closet
Anyone who is out of the closet.
Is homosexuality genetic, learned or a combination of the two?

Homophobia.
Many religions are biased against homosexuals
Violence against homosexuals.
Male insecurity model.


Androgyny

Hyper-masculinism.  Hyper-feminism.

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Pregnancy.
Pregnancy too young (?)  Teen pregnancy.
Unwanted pregnancy.  Birth control.  Abortion
Pregnancy in older women.
Trying to get pregnant.  Fertilization drugs.  Litters of people.

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Other sex issues

STD's

Sex crimes.
Rape, molestation and sexual violence.

History of sex, love and romance.

Courtship.  Going steady.  Dating.  Hooking up.

Marriage and divorce.


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RACE ISSUES

Just views.
Arguments for tolerance and diversity.
Argument that race is more a social construction that a genetic construction.

Wrong, unjust racist views.
Arguments that the races should remain "pure" and separate.
Arguments that people can be bred to be stupid or smart, physically strong or weak.
Arguments that blacks are better at sports.
Views about crime and race.
Views about the alleged superiority of races.
Views about eugenics.
Views about master races, racial purity.  Example, Hitler.


Race in America
The experiences of "non-whites"
The experiences of indigenous peoples

Black experience
Slavery
How many people were enslaved?

Segregation
Segregation in the U.S. Lasted up through the 1950's.

Civil Rights Movement

Slavery
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionists
Emancipation proclamation
Jim Crow era
Segregation.
Marcus Garvey
WEB Du Bois
Harlem Renaissance.
Blacks in sports.
	Jack Johnson.  
	Jackie Robinson.
	Arthur Ashe
	Tiger Woods
Blacks in entertainment.
	Music.	Blues.	Jazz.  R&B.  Soul.  Funk.  Hip Hop or Rap.
		Movies.  Sidney Poitier.  Harry Belafonte.
Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.




Underground Railroad.

Abolitionists.

Amistad

Booker T. Washington

George Washington Carver

Tuskeegee Institute.  First University for African Americans.

Marcus Garvey.  Back to Africa.

Black Panthers.  Advocates violence.

Shirley Chishom.  First black woman in Congress.

Louis Farakhan.  Extremist.  Advocates violence.

Stephen Biko

Nelson Mandela.



Slavery.  Millions killed.  Millions enslaved.  There were many instances of slave resistance and reblellion.

Nat Turner
John Brown

Blacks were denied the vote
Klu Klux Klan
Segregation
Share cropper system

Harlem Renaissance.
Richard Wright.  Black Boy.
Langston Hughes.
Rosa Parks.
Brown v. Board of Education
CORE.  Congress of Racial Equality
SNCC.  Student Non-Violent Coordinating Comittee.
Stokely Carmichael.
Birmingham Church Bombings
Malcolm X



Inter racial marriage.
Mulatos


race
ethnicity
minorities
segregation
affirmative action
slavery
discrimination
prejudice
stereotyping.
bigotry.


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American Indians

How many Indians were in North America when Columbus invaded?
How many Indians died as a result of persecution by the white man?

Reservations

Native American Rights Fund - seeks legal restitution for broken treaties

American Indian Movement - AIM - radical
Leonard Peltier

Dawes Act
Fort Laramie Treaty
Termination Policy - Eisenhower

Sovereignty of Indian lands
Gambling on Indian lands



The Europeans (Columbus, Pizzaro, Cortes) were after gold and slaves as an end, and they used genocide to kill millions as a means.

Andrew Jackson was an enemy of the Indains.

Indian culture was communal.  There was no land held as private property.  

Indians treated women and children better than the whites.

Indian tribes like the Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee were forced to leave the eastern United States and head west to poorer lands on the Trail of Tears.



Some American Indians
Sacajawea - helped Lewis and Clark expedition.
Pocahontas.
Geronimo.
Sitting Bull.
Tecumsah.
Red Cloud.
Crazy Horse.
Black Kettle.
Left Hand.


Events
Trail of Tears
Custers Last Stand
Bureau of Indian Affairs.  BIA



Some Indian tribes

Canada Indian Tribes

West coast
Kwakiutl

Central
Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Cree

East coast
Algonquin
Micmacs
Montagnais

Northern
Ingalik
Kutchin



United States Indian Tribes

Northwest
Nez Perce
Crow
Cheyenne

Southwest
Apache
Navajo
Hopi

Central plains
Sioux
Shoshoni
Ute
Crow
Cheyenne
Pawnee
Arapahoe
Chipewa

Southeast
Creek
Chicksaw
Choctaw
Cherokee
Seminole

Northeast
Oneidea
Seneca
Cayuga
Onadaga
Mohawk
Iroquois
Mohicans.  Northeaster tribe.  "Last of the Mohicans"


Central and South American Indians

Olmecs

Aztecs

Mayan

Inca



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Other groups

Latinos
Latino experience in America.
Mexicans

Puerto Ricans.
Puerto Rican Independence movement

Asian American experience
Chinese laborers on the Transcontinental railway.
Prejudice against Japanese during WWII
Vietnamese and Cambodian boat people refugees during Vietnam war era.

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Other indigenous people

Australian Aborigines

Eskimos

Native Hawaiians


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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

(for physical anthropology, see History)

Cultures in the world today.
Ancient cultures.
Mass culture.
New cultures.

Much of mass culture is from ancient cultures and much is from recently new cultures.


Cultures from the past


political anthropology - politics, power and law
economic anthropology - business, money, trade, labor
Knowledge, information, communication, entertainment, art anthropology
the sexes (men and women) and anthropology

class, caste
language
magic, myth and religion.  

cannibalism
cargo cults
taboos
incest
warfare

tribes
kinship, clans, 
feuds, vendettas, 

Pre-civilization.  Pre-writing

hunter-gatherer cultures
pastoral cultures

Subcultures

Boas - studied American Indians.
Margret Mead - studied tribes in Sou
Malinowski
Fraizer
Levi Strauss
Thor Heyerdal

North American Indians.
South American Indians
African cultures
Australian aboriginal cultures
Siberian / Mongolian cultures


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HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY (see history database)