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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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Emile Durkheim on Suicide & Society:

Emile Durkheim on Suicide & Society: Crash Course Sociology Transcript

Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 So, the fact that we have society at all is kind of amazing. Think about it: People with different interests, different amounts of money, members of different subcultures, races, and sexual orientations, somehow all manage to hold together in this thing we call society. A thing that, at least kind of, works.

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Sociology Research Methods

Sociology Research Methods: Crash Course Sociology Transcript

Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 Do you think you’re middle class? If you’re American, there’s a pretty good chance that you do. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2015, 87% of those surveyed identified themselves as middle class. That’s a pretty big middle. But your intuition about what the middle class is—like who

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Sociology & the Scientific Method

Sociology & the Scientific Method: Crash Course Sociology Transcript

Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 What puts the science in social science? The things you probably think of as science, like biology or physics or chemistry, can seem a world apart from sociology and the concepts we’ve introduced so far. But sociology is a type of science, it’s just not one that uses beakers or microscopes. Rather

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