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Big Picture / Human Society / Social Organization & Change
Social Structure & Change
- Structure of society
- Bureaucratic & industrial specialization
- Social control
- Change
Group Structure of Society
- Various types of groups
- Racial and ethnic prejudice
- Special social concerns
- adolescence
- aging
- crime
- cultural minorities
- drug, alcohol, gambling abuse
- gender diversity
- poverty
- prostitution
- sexual deviance, harassment, assault
- suicide
- Social service
- philanthropy:
- bill gates: GatesNotes
- elitism: Winners Take All Giridharadas
- fundraising made easy: Dipjar
- global goals for a sustainable world: GoalKeepers
- mega-wealth redistribution:
- philanthropy:
Social Status
- Social differentiation and stratification
- Varieties of social stratification & mobility
Human Populations: Urban and Rural Communities
- Composition and change of human populations
- Determinants of population
- Historical changes in population
- Theories of population
- Policies influencing population growth and composition
- Population projections and problems of the population explosion
- Cities
- Rural areas
- rural resentment: The Politics of Resentment by Cramer