Society, Perspectives, Ideas.

Society

Kids and Commercialism Is it possible to raise independent-minded children in today's highly commercialised culture? The Centre for a New American Dream thinks it is. Our Kids and Commercialism Campaign will help you learn more about the effects of advertising and marketing on kids and will also provide you with practical tips and tools to deal with this

Sociology of Knowledge studies the social sources and social consequences of knowledge--how, for instance, social organisation shapes both the content and structure of knowledge or how various social, cultural, political conditions shield people from truth. It has been argued that the concept of knowledge is to sociology as the notion of attitude is to psychology: a notion so central that, in many ways, it is the foundation for the entire discipline.

Sociology links to other sites.

Perspectives

From Medical Model to Critical Social Science Shifts and twists in theory and practice in health education and promotion over two decades of my career in the field, emerged as I set about the long overdue task of selecting my five favourite resources.

New Perspectives in Mental Health A new ethos in mental health, which rejects the medical model of the illness, is being pioneered by Bradford's home treatment service (HTS). It is the first NHS service not to use psychiatric diagnoses, and uses five times less medication on its patients. It is also the first to employ a user with power to make decisions about patients.

Ideas

Ivan Illich: Writing on the Web Ivan Illich became well known in 1970, when he published Deschooling Society which argued that the top-down management of schools makes students powerless - and that the same top-down management is typical of the modern, technological economy that prevents people from learning. Tools for Conviviality made the same criticism of technology generally. Along with Energy and Equity, this book made Ivan Illich one of the most important theorists of the radical ecology movement of the 1970s.

Michael Foucault Repository of texts written by Michel Foucault.

Durkheim Pages www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim/index.html

Rules for Radicals Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. In the world of give and take, tactics is the art of how to take and how to give. Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.

R D Laing www.oikos.org/ronen.htm

Pop Cultures.com Theorists and Critics www.popcultures.com/theorist.htm

Norbert Elias and Process Sociology www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/elias/elias.html

The Frankfurt School home.cwru.edu/~ngb2/Pages/Intro.html

Illuminations: Critical Theory www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

Oikos www.oikos.org/homeen.htm

Sociology of Knowledge www.trinity.edu/mkearl/knowledg.html

Philosophy Research Base www.erraticimpact.com/

Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html

The Work of Trigant Burrow www.lifwynnfoundation.org/