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| Subjects have been given motive to disprove expectation so social pressure is no longer only variable, creates instead a valuable psychology experiment |
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| Michael Apted's Up Series: Public Sociology or Folk Psychology through Film? |
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| Wealthier people are healthy. Gradient dependent upon $, edu, background, job prestige. Winston Churchill affect creates exception to the rule |
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| The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects our Health and Longevity |
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| Though America has moved from inherited privilege to a meritocracy, the rich are still at an advantage because of education and networks |
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| Class in America: Shadowy Lines that Still Divide |
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| Stratification is an unstoppable process. Reinforced by emulation (mimetic isomorphism) and adaptation (individual acceptance of current class) |
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| Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System |
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| Moral Entrepreneurship, Drs are creating social power by creating and expanding Fetal Alcohol Syndrome |
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| Diagnosing Moral Disorder: The discovery and evolution of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome |
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| Disconnect between Patients and Families, Story of Mother's journey with a cancer patient daughter |
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| People Like That are the Only People Here |
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| Medicine established authority over society. Shift since 1950 towards corporate medicine. |
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| The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
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| The skewing of birthrate in many east and south asian countries leads to higher crime rates and female suicides. Modernization leads to drop in morals |
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| Gendercide: The Worldwide War on Baby Girls |
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| Institutional Isomorphism - Coercive, Normative, Mimetic. Initial Weberian idea that humanity is imprisoned by bureaucratic order. |
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| The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields |
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| Capitalism is an Evolutionary process, New good and markets break down economic stucture, thus we are trapped in an endless cycle of purposeful destruction and rebuilding. |
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| The Process of Creative Destruction |
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| SHift from mid 20th cent balance between capitalism and democracy though gov regulations towards an unregulated uncontrollable capitalism |
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| Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life |
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| World is so connected it puts all of human kind on an equal playing field |
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| It's a Flat World After All |
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| Technology is so connected to us that it has redefined relationships, interactions and self image |
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| Always On/ Always On You: The Tethered Self |
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| Newspapers keep democracy in check through the questioning of journalists. Death of paper = death of civil engagement |
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| Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption) |
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| The idea of global economics are very complex and systems break easily. Cannot be unregulated and the world is not flat |
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| Public Characters, Old Heads, Fuck It mentality, Broken Window Theory, Differential Association, How do people living on the streets live in a moral order? |
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| Social activities are learned and dependent upon early childhood interaction with a parent |
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