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BSS1: The Individual and His/Her World
College Now Program / Kingsborough
BSS 1: 3 credits, 3 hours
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Course Description: Issues of current significance are studied using concepts and methodologies of the behavioral and social sciences, especially sociology and psychology, and relating them to students' experiences. Coursework is brought to life by relating the topics of violence, authority, work, leisure, popular culture and peer pressure to course readings, discussions, films and students' life experiences.
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Resource Collections: Videos, Assignments, etc.
Resource Collections
Social Cognition
CollectionConforming
CollectionIntroduction to the Social Sciences
CollectionSocial Perception & Affect
CollectionSelf & Society
CollectionSocial Class Stratification
CollectionVideos
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Single Resources
File File The McDonaldization of Society - GEORGE RITZER
File THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FUNCTIONS OF PERCEPTUAL BIAS IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS By Alar Kilp
File Nickel-and-Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich
File Media Magic - Making Class Invisible by Gregory Mantsios
File How to Be Emotionally Intelligent - Daniel Goleman
File Animating Youth - The Disneyfication of Children's Culture - Henry A. Giroux
File Teenage Wasteland, Suburbia's Dead-End Kids - Donna Gaines
File Finding Out How The Social World Works - Michael Schwalbe
File Eating Your Friends is the Hardest - The Survivors of F227 - James Henslin
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BSS1: The Individual and His / Her World
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