Sociologically interesting links:
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Documentary about young adults from wealthy American families.
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Documentary about gays and lesbians whose families of origin are fundamentalist Christians.
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Documentary about the way this and other toys make gender performance seem natural instead of the socialized behavior it is.
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Documantary about Americans' tendency to consume as much as
possible without thinking much about the long-term global implications
of this behavior.
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Web site based on the work of sociologist Robert Putnam. His book Bowling Alone explains how American community and the social stability it provides has essentially disappeared in the last 30 years.
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Archives, maintained by the library at the University of
California at San Francisco, which contain significant amounts of
documentation showing how the tobacco industry attempted to hide the
negative effectes of smoking and how it now uses advertising to get
young people outside the United States in poor nations addicted to its
products.
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