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A Brief History of Psychology: From Plato to Pavlov Transcript

Dave Farina 00:00:06 If we are going to learn psychology, we actually have to start with a little bit of history first. Now, you may be wondering why a psychology series is starting with a history lesson. Well, it turns out that what we consider to be psychology today is very different than what was […]

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Introduction to Psychology Transcript

Speaker spk_0    00:00:00 He knows a lot about the science stuff. Professor Dave Explains. Professor Dave    00:00:06 In the Biopsychology series, we took a deep dive into the human brain. We talked about the structure of the brain as well as the process by which specialized cells called neurons transmit information throughout the body via action potentials

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Emile Durkheim’s Sociological Theory: Key Concepts Transcript

00:00:07 At the core of Emile Durkheim's sociological theory is the idea of social cohesion. As a functionalist sociologist, Durkheim is concerned about social cohesion or social solidarity. According to Durkheim, social cohesion comes from core institutionalized values that are held in common. Thus anomie, that is, the lack of norms of behavior, feelings of alienation, and social

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Max Weber’s Sociological Theory: Key Concepts Transcript

00:00:02 Max Weber’s Sociological Theory, key concepts. At the center of Max Weber’s sociological theory is the concept of authority or leadership. And in Max Weber’s Sociological theory, authority or leadership is based on forms of legitimacy. Hence, for Weber authority and legitimation illustrate the ways in which different forms of society cohere and the

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Jordan Peterson Reveals The Psychology Behind Selling Anything Transcript

Jordan Peterson 00:00:03 You can’t really create a product and then launch it because first of all, you don’t know how to do that. You might know how to create the product, but you do not know how to market or sell it. You don’t know how to advertise it. You don’t know how to

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UO Today interview: Juliet Schor, Economist and Professor of Sociology, Boston College Transcript

Interviewer 00:00:07 Welcome to you all today. I am Paul Peppis, Director of the Oregon Humanities Center. My guest today is Juliet Schor, an economist and Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Professor Schor’s research interests include consumer society and consumer culture, working hours and lifestyles, environmental degradation, the sharing economy, and alternative sustainable economies

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Sociological Imagination

Dr Jessamy Perriam on C Wright Mills'”Sociological Imagination” Transcript

Jessamy Perriam 00:00:00 Hi, I’m Jess Perriam from the Sociology discipline. This year marks the 60th anniversary of both a book and an idea developed by C. Wright Mills called The Sociological Imagination. 00:00:12 Mills did the bulk of his work in the period after World War II and focused on social inequality, problems facing

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Dubois & Race Conflict

Dubois & Race Conflict: Crash Course Sociology Transcript

Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 Two bachelor’s degrees. PhD from Harvard University. Two-year fellowship to study in Berlin. Professor of sociology and history at two different universities. Author of countless books. Activist and co-founder of a key civil rights organization. Editor and co-founder of a magazine. And a poet to boot. Pretty good resume, yeah? What if

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Harvard MBA Case Classroom transcript

Take a Seat in the Harvard MBA Case Classroom Transcript

Speaker 1 00:00:03 Today, we put ourselves in the shoes of Cynthia Carroll. Imagine, you’ve become CEO of one of the world’s largest mining companies, Anglo American. $25 billion in sales, 162,000 employees, 2/3rds of them in South Africa, and four months into your job you hear the news, one of the miners in Rustenburg

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