Beginning Mondays in March, we are bringing you Crash Course Sociology. Host Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both shape societies and are shaped by...
========== Hello!
I am not Hank. I am Nicole and I’m usually a behind-the-scenes
member of the Crash Course staff, but for the next year
I will be here, teaching you about sociology. We’ve covered a lot of things here at Crash
Course and sociology has kind of been lurking
about throughout all of them. Sociology is the study of people and society and
that includes a really broad range of topics – everything from social and economic
inequalities to marriage and family formation
to political and religious institutions. Sociologists answer questions like, “What is class and why does almost every
American seem to think that they’re middle class?” or “How do different political institutions
change the cultural norms of a society?” or “Why do some societies ...