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Breaching Experiment Assignment Instructions (Canada)
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Instructions for a group norm violation (breaching experiment) and paper used in a first year sociology class. This assignment must be used with caution and depending on student maturity level.  

Subject:
Sociology
Material Type:
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Katherine Lyon
Date Added:
09/30/2021
Emotions and Politics
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This course is premised on the belief that emotions are a fundamental part of human nature. Accordingly, understanding emotions and incorporating emotions into our research can help us better explain variation in important political phenomena. Research on emotions and how emotions can influence decision-making has dramatically increased over the past two decades. This class aims to pick up on new findings from psychology and other disciplines and marshal this knowledge toward the most important issues of political science.

Subject:
Political Science
Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Petersen, Roger
Date Added:
09/01/2018
Introduction to Drama
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Drama combines the literary arts of storytelling and poetry with the world of live performance. As a form of ritual as well as entertainment, drama has served to unite communities and challenge social norms, to vitalize and disturb its audiences. In order to understand this rich art form more fully, we will study and discuss a sampling of plays that exemplify different kinds of dramatic structure; class members will also participate in, attend, and review dramatic performances.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Henderson, Diana
Date Added:
09/01/2004
Studies in Drama: Too Hot to Handle: Forbidden Plays in Modern America
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Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom to explore and to transgress normative culture. Yet censorship of the theater has been part of American culture from the beginning, and continues today. How and why does this happen, and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored, either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists). We'll look at laws, both national and local, relating to the "obscene", as well as unofficial practices, and think about the way censorship operates in American life now. And of course we will study the offending texts, themselves, to find what is really dangerous about them, for ourselves.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Performing Arts
Philosophy
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Fleche, Anne
Date Added:
09/01/2008
The pull of the past: how mothers influence their daughters’ career choices and policies shift this relationship
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Are our moms responsible for the lingering wage gap between men and women? A European research team claims that by trading in high-powered careers to provide childcare, mothers have created a social norm that’s been hard for today's generation to shake. Although today’s workforce features more women than ever before, women still earn 15% less than men. Among the many factors creating this wage gap, the researchers focused on women’s life choices. Using a rigorous theoretical model, they linked these choices to whether mothers had high or low future earning ability. ** ** The model argues that the previous generation’s decisions determine the career paths pursued today. If most mothers in the prior generation took lower-level jobs to allow time for childcare, then their daughters aren’t likely to opt for a high-powered career because of this social norm..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Provider:
Research Square
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Date Added:
11/21/2020