Sociology 125
Contemporary American Society
Supplementary Course materials
Lecture Outlines
Lecture 2. What Kind of Country is This?
Lecture 3. The Market: How it is Supposed to Work
Lecture 4 & 5. The Market: how it actually works
Lecture 7. Transportation PODCAST
Lecture 8. Consumerism PODCAST (incomplete)
Lecture 10. High Road Capitalism PODCAST
Lecture 11. Thinking about Inequality, Equality and Fairness PODCAST
Lecture 12 & 13. Persistent Poverty & Increasing Inequality PODCAST-12 PODCAST-13
Lecture 14. Solutions to Poverty & Excessive Inequality PODCAST
Lecture 15 & 16. Race PODCAST-15 PODCAST-16
Lecture 17 & 18. Gender PODCAST-17 PODCAST-18
Lecture 19 & 20. Capitalist Democracy: how it works PODCAST-19 PODCAST-20-beginning PODCAST-20-end
Lecture 21. Taxation and the Attack on the Affirmative State PODACAST-21-beginning PODCAST-21-middle PODCAST-21-end
Lecture 22. Voting, Elections, Campaign Finance PODCAST-22-beginning PODCAST-22-end
Lecture 23. Democracy and Corporate Media PODCAST-23
Lecture 24. Militarism and Empire PODCAST-24 PODCAST-24-end
Lecture 25. Unions and Democracy PODCAST-25
Lecture 26. Democracy from Below PODCAST-26
Lecture 27. Alternative Futures & The Big Lessons from the Course PODCAST-27
Lecture 2. What Kind of Country is This?
Lecture 3. The Market: How it is Supposed to Work
Lecture 4 & 5. The Market: how it actually works
Lecture 10. High Road Capitalism
Lecture 11. Thinking about Inequality, Equality and Fairness
Lecture 12 & 13. Persistent Poverty & Increasing Inequality
Lecture 14. Solutions to Poverty & Excessive Inequality
Lecture 19 & 20. Capitalist Democracy: how it works
Lecture 21. Taxation and the Attack on the Affirmative State
Lecture 22. Voting, Elections, Campaign Finance
Lecture 23. Democracy and Corporate Media
Lecture 24. Militarism and Empire
Lecture 25. Unions and Democracy
Lecture 26. Democracy from Below
Lecture 27. Alternative Futures & The Big Lessons from the Course
Additional Readings
Lecture 8. Healthcare
Philipp Longman, "The Best Care Anywhere", The Washington Monthly, January/February 2005