An introduction to sex, gender and gender identity – outlining the differences between sex and gender, traditional male and female gender roles, and the recent expressive explosion of diverse gendered identities, which certainly seem to suggest that gender is socially constructed. Just over a year later, on June 15, 2011, the Vancouver Canucks lost the seventh hockey game of the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins.

An introduction to social action theory – social action theorists try to understand human action by looking at how people interpret their world and the act ions of others. What collective process lead to the decision that moving to the right rather than the left is normal? When Domino disappears, she's replaced by Sally the next day, just as in dream-logic one person may turn into another yet remain the same. In Eyes Wide Shut, much as in the real world circa 1999, Christmas is less a religious observance than an annual orgy of consumerism, the ecstatic climax of the retail year. Having illustrations to accompany the text definitely increases the quality of both comprehension and memory.Masks and mannequins are a recurring motif in Kubrick's work: think of the fight with mannequin's limbs in Killer's Kiss, the anthropomorphic furniture at the Korova, the grotesque masks worn in The Killing and A Clockwork Orange. In the series’ inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revolution and the Enlightenment through to globalization, neoliberalism and the fear of nationalism – introducing you to key thinkers, movements and concepts along the way. She's associated, more than any other character, with mirrors; we see her giving herself a critical once-over before leaving the party, and look of frank self-assessment in the medicine cabinet when she decides to get stoned.

These are the type of questions that point to the unique domain and puzzles of the social that sociology seeks to explore and understand. On the other hand, macro-level phenomena like class structures, institutional organizations, legal systems, gender stereotypes, and urban ways of life provide the shared context for everyday life but do not explain its nuances and micro-variations very well.Additives like corn syrup, which are much cheaper to produce than natural sugars, led to the trend of super-sized fast foods and soft drinks in the 1980s. There is a moment in Eyes Wide Shut, as Bill Harford is lying to his wife over a cellphone from a prostitute's apartment, when we see a textbook in the foreground titled Introducing Sociology. People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does”.

Macro-level structures constrain the daily interactions of the intimate circles in which we move, but they are also filtered through localized perceptions and “lived” in a myriad of inventive and unpredictable ways. The example above of the influence of migration on changing patterns of language usage is a macro-level phenomenon because it refers to structures or processes of social interaction that occur outside or beyond the intimate circle of individual social acquaintances. An introduction to Feminism – covering basic concepts such as sex and gender, patriarchy and the public private divide.But to focus exclusively on the Harford's unexamined inner lives is to remain willfully blind to the profoundly visual filmic world that Stanley Kubrick devoted a career's labors to creating. They can be the briefest of everyday interactions—moving to the right to let someone pass on a busy sidewalk, for example—or the largest and most enduring interactions—such as the billions of daily exchanges that constitute the circuits of global capitalism. This book summarizes homo sapiens and homo deus while providing us with projections into the future, which is bleak to say the least. Her expression in the mirror as she watches her husband making love to her (the film's iconic image) begins as bemusement, giving way to fondness and arousal, but in the last seconds before the fade-out it becomes something more ambiguous, distracted and self-conscious; this is her moment of clearest self-recognition, an uncomfortable glimpse of what she really is. Its up-to-date focus on decolonial and global perspectives, and intersectional perspectives on race, gender and class make it essential reading for new sociology students and inspiration to lecturers teaching sociology courses.

Although it is compact and has a simplistic layout, it is filled to the brim with relevant and helpful information. Ziegler's "no games" plea notwithstanding, this entire conversation is a game--a gentlemanly back-and-forth of challenges and evasions over a question of life and death, throughout which the two opponents circle each other uneasily around a blood-red billiards table. Obesity, for example, has been increasingly recognized as a growing problem for both children and adults in North America. Gathering together key pioneers in sociology like Marx, Mills, Bauman, Berger, Hegel, Durkheim and Foucault (to name a few. Critical disappointment with Eyes Wide Shut was almost unanimous, and the complaint was always the same: not sexy.An introduction to postmodern social thought – postmodern thinkers argue that the shift to postmodern society means that sociology needs to focus on new issues such as the globalisation, consumerism and identity, individual freedom, diversity and difference and risk and uncertainty. Bill is haunted wherever he goes by the colors blue and gold, the color of the wallpaper outside his apartment. But the meticulously rendered setting of the film, the luxurious apartments and sumptuous mansions, are meant to raise eyebrows. From Modernity to Postmodernity – the previous four theories (functionalism, marxism, feminism and social action theory were all conceived in the age of modernity (mainly the 19th to mid 20th century); however, most sociologists agree that since the 1970s we have been living in the age of postmodernity – this post introduces some of the differences between these two historical periods.