Societies and Social Interaction

Societies

• Crash Course Understanding Societies
• History of the World
• AI Our New Best Friend
• The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1
• Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32
• Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25
  
• Watch Scenes from Belle Époque Paris Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (Circa 1890)
  

Social Solidarity, Alienation, and the Iron Cage

• Emile Durkheim and Social Solidarity
• Crash Course Max Weber and Modernity
• Alienation Karl Marx
• McDonaldization of Society
• George Ritzer and the McDonaldization of Society

Social Networks

• The Power of Networks

• Social Interaction
• Social Support
• The Strength of Weak Ties
• Social Support Key to Happiness

Types of Groups

• Three Minute Sociologist Group Basics: Concepts and Construction
• Social Institutions
• Characteristics of an Ideal Bureaucracy

• Primary and Secondary Groups
• In Groups and Out Groups

Group Dynamics

• The Truth About Dishonesty

• Why the majority is always wrong

• Dramaturgy
• Conformity and Group Think
• Bystander Effect
•  The Bystander Effect

Social Experiments on Group Dynamics

• Asch Conformity Experiment
• Smoked Filled Room Experiment
• Milgram's Obedience Experiment
• Science of Evil: Remake of Milgram Obedience Experiment
• Original Milgram Obedience Experiment
• Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment
• Stanford Prison Experiment Documentary
• The Psychology of Evil
• Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing (Open Culture)

• Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37
• Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38
• Aggression vs. Altruism: Crash Course Psychology #40

Status and Roles

• Status
• Role Strain and Role Conflict
• Hurricane Katrina and Role Conflict

Historic  Issues

• Kitty Genovese Story
• Jonestown Massacre Documentary
• British Pathe Historical Newsreels