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Nelson Education > Higher Education > New Society: Sociology for the 21st Century, Fourth Edition > Lecture Hall

Lecture Hall

Access more than 50 sociologically relevant lectures, interviews, and discussions of varying length, by professors from leading universities in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom!

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Brym’s Lectures have been made available in MP3 format.

Download: Transcripts of Brym’s lectures are also available in Word format.

Now included in this set, and denoted by the Canadian flag icon, are several lectures from our Canadian text author Robert J. Brym.

To access these informative lectures, simply click on the underlined Web addresses corresponding to the lecturers' names.

Lectures

  Topic Lecturer(s)
Format
Duration
Fashion Cycles from Coco Chanel to Britney Spears: How Sociological Theory Can Help Explain What’s in Style Robert J. Brym 11:35
Is Language Innate or Learned? Robert J. Brym 8:56
The Sociology of Emotions Robert J. Brym
10:56
The Human Body and Social Status Robert J. Brym
8:31
Fundamentalism and Extremist Politics in the Arab World Robert J. Brym
5:51
The Social Limits of Modern Medicine Robert J. Brym
8:41
War and Terrorism: Politics by Other Means Robert J. Brym
11:51
  Mothers and Daughters
Deborah Tannen
29:00
 

Max Weber and World-Denying Love

 

Robert Bellah

60:00

  Topic Lecturer(s)
Format
Duration
  Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?
Proceedings of a conference at Stanford University, 1 April 2000
Bill Joy, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, etc. 3 h
  The sessions are posted on youtube.com separately:
          Chunk 1/2 Douglas Hofstadter 8:55
          Chunk 2/2 Douglas Hofstadter 8:59
          Chunk 1/3 Ray Kurzweil 9:42
          Chunk 2/3 Ray Kurzwei 9:42
          Chunk 3/3 Ray Kurzwei 6:27
          Chunk 1/1 John Koza 9:10
          Chunk 1/3 Bill Joy 9:30
          Chunk 2/3 Bill Joy 9:30
          Chunk 3/3 Bill Joy 8:45
          Chunk 1/2 Kevin Kelly 6:08
          Chunk 2/2 Kevin Kelly 6:07
          Chunk 1/3 Hans Moravec 9:30
          Chunk 2/3 Hans Moravec 9:30
          Chunk 3/3 Hans Moravec 6:48
          Chunk 1/2 John Holland 7:19
          Chunk 2/2 John Holland 6:57
          Chunk 1/2 Ralph Merkle 6:20
          Chunk 2/2 Ralph Merkle 6:10
          Chunk 1/2 Frank Drake 6:44
          Chunk 2/2 Frank Drake 6:43
          Chunk 1/3 Panel discussion 9:18
          Chunk 2/3 Panel discussion 9:18
          Chunk 3/3 Panel discussion 8:44
          Chunk 1/5 Audience Q&A 9:18
          Chunk 2/5 Audience Q&A 9:18
          Chunk 3/5 Audience Q&A 9:18
          Chunk 4/5 Audience Q&A 9:18
          Chunk 5/5 Audience Q&A 9:18
 
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