OER Text MaterialSociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Section: 14.5 Some content available through OER for this objective – section 14.5, page 557: Stopping Terrorism. Efforts to stop terrorism take two forms (White, 2012). The first form involves attempts to capture known terrorists and to destroy their camps and facilities and is commonly called a law enforcement or military approach. The second form stems from the recognition of the structural roots of terrorism just described and is often called a structural-reform approach. Each approach has many advocates among terrorism experts, and each approach has many critics.

OER Text MaterialSociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Section: 14.5Limited content provided in section 14.5:- Distinguish international war and civil war.- List the major types of terrorism.- Evaluate the law enforcement and structural-reform approaches for dealing with terrorism.

OER Text MaterialSociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Section: 14.5Limited content in OER for this learning objective.Defining WarWars occur both between nations and within nations, when two or more factions engage in armedconflict. War between nations is called international war, while war within nations is called civil war. Themost famous civil war to Americans, of course, is the American Civil War, also called the War Betweenthe States, that pitted the North against the South from 1861 through 1865. More than 600,000 soldierson both sides died on the battlefield or from disease, a number that exceeds American deaths in all theother wars the United States has fought. More than 100 million soldiers and civilians are estimated tohave died during the international and civil wars of the 20th century (Leitenberg, 2006). Many novelsand films depict the heroism with which soldiers fight, while other novels and films show the horror thatwar entails. As Sydney H. Schanberg (2005), a former New York Times reporter who covered the wars inVietnam and Cambodia, has bluntly observed, “‘History,’ Hegel said, ‘is a slaughterhouse.’ And war ishow the slaughter is carried out.”

OER Text MaterialSociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Section: 14.5Some content available through OER for this objective – section 14.5, page 554 and 555: Types ofTerrorism:- Vigilante Terrorism- Insurgent Terrorism- Transnational Terrorism- State Terrorism

Deviance is any behavior that violates cultural norms. Norms are social expectations that guide human behavior. Deviance is often divided into two types of deviant activities. The first, crime is the violation of formally enacted laws and is referred to as formal deviance. Examples of formal deviance would include: robbery, theft, rape, murder, and assault, just to name a few. The second type of deviant behavior refers to violations of informal social norms, norms that have not been codified into law, and is referred to as informal deviance. Examples of informal deviance might include: picking one's nose, belching loudly (in some cultures), or standing too close to another unnecessarily (again, in some cultures).

Sociology is the study of social groups, structures, processes, institutions, and events. This course will focus on understanding and applying the sociological perspective, which stresses the importance of the impact of social forces external to the individual in shaping peopleęs lives and experiences. This idea that we are all profoundly affected by the society in which we live is the guiding light of sociology. Sociologists also study the ways in which people, as they interact, shape their social systems. Topics studied will include socialization, social interaction, culture, groups, social structure, deviance, social inequality, social class, race, gender, institutions (political, economic, educational, family, and religious), collective behavior and social change. Students will be asked to learn the basic concepts, theories, and perspectives of sociology, to see how these operate in terms of social processes, structures, and events, and to apply this knowledge to better understand the social world.

People who live in rural areas are more likely to own their own homes, live in their state of birth and have served in the military than their urban counterparts, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

Looks at rural and urban demographics in relation from conflict, symbolic interactionist and functionalist perspectives.

One of the things that we know is that as you go up the social ladder, you often have better access to quality education, healthcare, and other services, such as housing or good nutrition.

When a norm is violated, it's referred to as deviance. And though the word, deviance, seems negative, it's not. It simply means that an individual's behaving differently from what society feels is normal behavior.

The author of Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Amy Blackstone, started envisioning this textbook while sitting in her own undergraduate sociology research methods class. She enjoyed the material but wondered about its relevance to her everyday life and future plans (the idea that one day she would be teaching such a class hadn't yet occurred to her).

In fall 2021, of the 1.5 million faculty at degree-granting postsecondary institutions, 56 percent were full time and 44 percent were part time. Faculty include professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers, assisting professors, adjunct professors, and interim professors.

This Open Educational Resource textbook on racial and ethnic diversity is innovative and timely. The author, a sociology Ph.D. at an Ohio 2-year college, provides a well-researched and detailed introduction to this topic. In addition to the sociological approach, the textbook uses a comparative approach, discussing U.S. diversity in international and historical perspective, especially in terms of North America's many political, economic, and social relationships to Latin America. This comparative approach is especially important for today's students, given the current Hispanicization of the U.S.

This video lesson explains how social theories such as intersectionality, class consciousness, and absolute vs relative poverty relate to the field of healthcare.

Social Problems: Continuity and Change by Steve Barkan is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book’s subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future, provided that our nation has the wisdom and will to address them.

It is easy for students to read a social problems textbook and come away feeling frustrated by the enormity of the many social problems facing us today. Social Problems: Continuity and Change certainly does not minimize the persistence of social problems, but neither does it overlook the possibilities for change offered by social research and by the activities of everyday citizens working to make a difference. Readers of Steve Barkan’s book will find many examples of how social problems have been improved and of strategies that hold great potential for solving them today and in the future.

You will find several pedagogical features help to convey the “continuity and change” theme of this text and the service sociology vision in which it is grounded: Each chapter begins with a “Social Problems in the News” story related to the social problem discussed in that chapter. These stories provide an interesting starting point for the chapter’s discussion and show its relevance for real-life issues. Three types of boxes in each chapter provide examples of how social problems have been changed and can be changed.

This is a video lesson teaching the concept of social reproduction, or the phenomenon of social inequality repeating itself across generatons.

Institutions are structures of society that fulfill the needs of the society. Not only are they essential to the society's needs, they also help to build the society itself.

Social institutions - education, family, and religion | Society and Culture | MCAT | Khan Academy

An overview of functionalism, conflict theory, social constructionism, and symbolic interactionism to help you keep them all straight