Duration 4:10

Social Theories Overview

by Sydney Brown

124 803 watched

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Published 13 Aug 2013

An overview of functionalism, conflict theory, social constructionism, and symbolic interactionism to help you keep them all straight. Also check out the Khan Academy MCAT test prep section (https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat) for more sociology videos.

Tags

Sociology

Institutions

Social constructionism

Symbolic interactionism

Meaning

Conflict theory

Functionalism

Comments - 42

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@CandiedCupcakes10 years ago You did an absolutely fabulous job presenting! Not only was your voice smooth and information easy to follow but your pictures made it even more exciting. 19
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@LetsSolvePoverty10 years ago So useful for first year sociology students. Might recommend this to my lecturer and class.
and yes, more please! Keep ' em coming! 10
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@HoangiePongie10 years ago Amazing. So accurate yet condensed with simplistic explanations and accuracy. Thank you so much for your videos, you certain help students like me to id="hidden2" understand better about the subject.
you should do more videos that complement these theories. For example, inmead talks about the ' i' and the ' self' concepts. ...Expand 17
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@hinklebumjabber9 years ago This is phenomenal! Great job keeping it simplified while giving a lot of pertinent information. Keep up the good work! 3
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@AakritiUpadhyay927 years ago Hey sydney, your explanations are brilliant and very easy to understand. Just want to thank you for the amaing videos. 1
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@Sakoz8710 years ago Brillant! Simply stated an easy to follow explanations and as well as simple informative visualizations thank you so much for this video. 1
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@mrdominicanchulo9 years ago Way better than my sociology professor (he doesn' t teach at all) 13
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@thomascat90006 years ago I love all your videos. It helps me a lot on my study. Thank you so much.
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@crystaljuarez818010 years ago This is great information, you should be a professor. 2
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@keriadri5 years ago I learnt more in this 4 minute video than i ever did in my 2 year sociology class.
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@lichaoguo78906 years ago Thank you for making this video, its very helpful.
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@bharathis35559 years ago Ur awesome. Very good explaination. Thank u so much.
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@XandraVon9 years ago Love it! #39; makes things clear! Thanks a lot!
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@johandelpire72907 years ago Cool videos, i' m missing social exchange theory as one of the founding sociological theories. It' d be nice to also see a video about that paradigm.
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@joeyho44410 years ago Thank you, this information is really helpful to reinforce my knowledge.
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@TheMrFederer11 years ago You haven' t made a video of socialcould you please make one? Thank you.
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@TheMrFederer11 years ago Yes it' s there. Thank you. Can you make some videos on marriage and families. What the sociologists say about that. Also, one about postmodernism that' d be great. Thanks so much.
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@RAJASTHANBHAJAN12345 years ago Please provide more sociology concepts likephenomenology etc
modernity
and other concepts
it will be very helpfull for me.
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@dressbysivdeluxe16358 years ago Please where can i download your lectures? Need to watch later.
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@gda2959 years ago V jolly colourful pointer to further reading.
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@seb0200911 years ago I have a bunch of others lined up to make, but i' ll do my best to fit those in as well!
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@ginadawnswanson9 years ago Love this clip. The closedhas lots of errors, however. Any way you could submit corrections so the hearing impaired can get the actual content being spoken?
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@Stevmay099 years ago What program are you using to draw on the screen?
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@soulsinger123111 years ago Thanks a lot for this video it really help me in sociology class:
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@shadayegreen944911 years ago At 1: 30 is that a middle finger lol. But good video btw.
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@seb0200911 years ago It should be there, just look through my videos and let me know if it' s disappeared.
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@maranatha87682 years ago In other words when you sit on the couch all day you make nothing happen in your life.
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@HoangiePongie10 years ago Amazing. So accurate yet condensed with simplistic explanations and accuracy. Thank you so much for your videos, you certain help students like me to id="hidden8" understand better about the subject.
you should do more videos that complement these theories. For example, inmead talks about the ' i' and the ' self' concepts. ...Expand 17