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Note: Before we begin, we ask that you contact the Athabasca University Library to request that either the film Thank You for Smoking [Reitman, J. (Dir.). (2005). Los Angeles: Room 9 Entertainment, TYFS Productions & ContentFilm.] or the Matrix trilogy…
Shopping mall culture in Malaysia is ever growing, so much that one could hypothesise about the emergence of a subculture centered on the shopping mall. More and more mega mall projects are coming up as bigger portions of the population…
Objectives At the end of this unit, students will be able to: Identify gender inequalities in their work and life. Discuss the basic theoretical positions that attempt to explain gender (e.g., various forms of feminism). Consider the “why?” questions. Why…
Home / Publication Types / Lectures For a scientists, citations are key. If your papers get cited by others, the assumption is your work is valuable. But is this a safe assumption? This article questions the validity of citation counting…
Stephen Hawking, the arch-determinist. One can hardly broach the subject of agency without acknowledging the long-standing and unresolved philosophical debate regarding the agency vs. determination dichotomy. To provide an illustration of the extent of disagreement over this dualism, determinists, such…
Home / Many Worlds, but only One Reality: Stephen Hawking and the Determinist Fallacy / Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking, the arch-determinist. 2012-11-05 +Timothy McGettigan About Timothy McGettigan Tim McGettigan is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University – Pueblo.…
There’s something wrong in the world today, and Sociologists know what it is. We live in a system that privileges cash value over everything else. If you can’t lay a dollar value, and if you can’t generate profit, it is…
A review of currently available social problems textbooks by Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. TextBooks John D. Carl. THINK Social Problems. Boston: Pearson. 2011. 342 pp. $71.33. James W. Coleman and Harold R. Kerbo. Social Problems. 10th…
We live in a materialist universe, or do we? Scientists chant a materialist mantra but gravity, a concept present at the very birth of Science, is an invisible force that nobody has ever seen–in other words, immaterial. As sociologists our…
A review of currently available social problems textbooks by Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. TextBooks John D. Carl. THINK Social Problems. Boston: Pearson. 2011. 342 pp. $71.33. James W. Coleman and Harold R. Kerbo. Social Problems. 10th…
