SOCIOLOGY General
1. Sociology is the study of groups of people, how they interact, how they create and hold group structures and group identities, how they band together, how they deal with conflicts, and everything that whole groups of people do.
2. Sociology studies social units such as families, packs, tribes, villages, cities, hives, herds, and mobs.
3. The precarious balance of true democracy is that society must balance social welfare and social support and services against the counterweight of free enterprise. If the balance falls off towards social welfare, the society falls into entropy as the government destroys
private enterprise to fund social services. The result is socialism, which always decays into its own form of totalitarianism. If the balance falls off the other way, then free enterprise results in a plutocracy and then an oligarchy followed by mild oligarchic mercantilist fascism and then a severe oligarchic fascism. Socialism is not a whole goal
or endpoint we wish to arrive at, but the system "as is" is out of balance resulting in a corporate oligarchy. The only way to fix this is to return the power back to the people and
restore a genuine democracy.
4. Sociology understands that social phenomenon are very complicated, and that social problems have many underlying contributing causes for any given effect. Oversimplification, blaming, black and white thinking, and false dilemmas do not help to solve problems in a real way.
5. People are conditioned to behave by their social environment. Personal responsibility is important, but where statistics show a trend in negative or antisocial behaviors, Society
as a whole must shoulder some part of the blame and work to improve conditions socially
just as it works to rehabilitate the criminal, so should it seek to rehabilitate itself.
6. People have several layers of personal space, a psychological truth which is mostly subliminal, but which nonetheless governs almost all social interactions. People should learn to consciously understand personal space to cut down on miscommunication and stress due to problems handling personal space issues.
7. The best way to run a democratic system is by using consensus process to the point of
a clear and overwhelming (two thirds) majority. Consensus process means talking about and working out issues and differences to arrive at a mutually beneficial compromise much of the time.
8. The best guardian of the balance between socialism and free enterprise is intellectual meritocracy. A functional society should be free of propaganda, should not have anti-intellectualism, and should consider ideas on their rational merit, not according to what
others have to say or social pressures, but by means of a reproducible rational problem
solving application of intelligence and knowledge.


Sociology Introduction;
www.thomsonedu.com/thomsone...ipline.do
www.polity.co.uk/sociology...txtbks.asp
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites...y.html
www.sdsmt.edu/online-cour...00/Intro.htm
www.sdsmt.edu/online-cour.../course.html
www2.wwnorton.com/college/soc/giddens5/
www.camden.rutgers.edu/~wood/207syl.htm
core.ecu.edu/soci/juskaa...10/soci1.htm

Types of Government;
stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/Wo...ofgovt.html
news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/h...2151570.stm
home.earthlink.net/~kingsid.../id2.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_government
www.twyman-whitney.com/americ...ent.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...government

Social Conditioning;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci...nditioning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oper...nditioning
answers.yahoo.com/question/index
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci...ing_theory
www.dailyom.com/articles/2006/4952.html
changingminds.org/technique...ioning.htm
www.winthrop.edu/english/n...social.htm

Pavlov;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov
www.psyhist.com/conditioning.html
www.sntp.net/behaviorism/pavlov.htm
users.cwnet.com/phelps/pavlov.htm
forerunner.com/forerunner...iorism.html
tip.psychology.org/skinner.html
www.brembs.net/operant/
psychology.about.com/od/beha...cond.htm