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Hey madam, I am from India and your lecturer has helped me a lot in my studies, thanks for this and my l❤ve for you ।।

i LOVE her. I wonder how students cope nowadays. I bet they'd get triggered by her coolness. And lay complaints.

This woman is very anti american. If you listen to her open borders justification from about 28:00 minutes until 32:00 is ideilogically odoius and evil. This is why Trump wiped out the liberals. The funny thing is, this woman is a devoted Jew. She always talks about it in her 28 lectures. Israel right now has very closed borders. If you are not a Jew, it's hard to live there. The Palestinians and druze are marginalized. Israel has huge wall borders. If this woman was honest shed see she is a hypicrite. But maybe that is the Zionist goal in the UsA. The humus people feel threatened by dominant white majority so they encourage open borders diversity and a welfare state that they can have huge influences in on the one hand and subsidize their blackrock style trillion dollar mega corporations on the other. Accuse me of Anti Semitism if you want, but that's what it looks like.

Stereotypes exist for a legitimate reason. Time and again at university, the best professors were 55 year old stoical no nonsense men. Women are less competent in positions of authority. Like this woman here for a Berkeley professor her lectures are medocre. I watch young men without phds explain the same content far more concisely and clearly. Too bad PC bullcrap is killing America

your experiment is gathering sociologists all over the world thanks ❤❤

Roughly 15:15 you say that protestants have a lower rate of suicide... then immediately flop and say that they are at greater risk? Which is it? As a stranger to sociology it would seem beeing told what to think and how to feel would contribute to a higher likelihood of suicide... else all governments would simply order their populace to be happy- and be told to think grateful thoughts because their governments cared for them enough to tell them to be happy and thus protect them from suicide- /// dosent seem to hold water- now does it?

40:55 I'm so glad you bring up flags as totems. I was thinking the same thing. In fact, this idea of totems or logos works for an absurdly broad collection of things. Political parties (donkey or elephant), sports teams (Panthers and others), brands for all kinds of consumer items, school mascots, and on and on. It's odd when we notice how pervasive this is. It's not always animals. It's various colors, geometries, and so on. These things are held to be sacred by many kinds of people. I have never supported brands or logos. I can't remember a single one I really thought was sacred. Maybe all is mundane to me.

19:00 I'm no expert on the topic of s**cide, but the fact seems to be that strong, communal religions (like the Judaism or Catholicism of the late 1800s that Durkheim compares with Protestants) don't even give most people the time or place to ask a question like, "What am I doing here, or what's the point, or what I do I have to live for?" Interestingly, I'm struck with a memory of Sam Harris (a controversial person, I should at least say): when he was asked the question, "How should we live our lives?" or some similar question, he answered, "We should live our lives in a way so that we don't need to ask that question." 😅 That's an answer coming from an atheist; albeit, a secular humanitarian who may as well be in a new religion-a religion which states that people are fundamentally good and we should improve the wellbeing of all living people.

12:40 😂 This professor is great.

Turkish subtitles, could you add? PLEASEEE

For anyone concerned- it seems that lecture 5 had a screeening of the documentary Obedience, which shows a recording of Millgram's experiments.

The lecture starts at 10:35

Thanks so much, Prof. Swidler- for these hugely entertaining and easy to follow introductory lectures.

This explains me perfectly. Since I was very young I thought this way and I thought most others were strange.

She's so aggressive, jeez

i just love the way she talks

yeah keep being powerful like my toddlers playing with toy guns . meanwhile i sell your planet to fungi

goosebumps

So, Ann only talks and her husband pays all the bills. Still she rants for patriatrchy. lol

Excellent and enriched lecture by the Professor.

man she is a whiny beach just effing teach and get out of here no need for ur chity chaty b. s and morals

8:03

Formal separation between sacred and profane is more essential than the reality of God ?! There must be totally misunderstanding by Durkheim!

Explains the failure of Iraq and Afghanistan nation building, and the success of Japanese and German nation building

Can anybody tell what that secret hillerious line was ?

If factories did produce food then Marxism probably would have done better. But witout a profit the factory is useless to the proletariat aa well

Sometimes withdrawals have been an influence.

Professor Ann Swidler is one of my Sociology role models and it's just awesome that we get access to classes she taught.

Nice lecture ❤

I am confused at 15:26 mam said that it's (substantially less likely) or it should be (substantially more* likely) can anyone elaborate a bit.

She is such a wonderful Professor.

The question, "Does anyone know any reason why these 2 should not marry?" Was an appreciation of the frequency of consanguinity rural communities.

She claims that gender identity is more powerful than biological identity. That's not sure. Cause there are many more who aren't in disconformity with their body. The percentage of those who don't identify according to their sex is very low.

Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤

Thank a lot of maam ❤❤

Reading the book sounds absolutely ridiculous today. I would try to skip the lecture as well. There is very efficient content out there now that doesn’t taken an hour and doesn’t leave you confused. My slow mind doesn’t learn anything that isn’t true to the existing scaffolding. These Ideas have no place to stick and they always sound different when repeated, which makes me try to rebuild my scaffolding.

Thank you, from other side of the world, i can learn this subject.

Being a student in Thailand, fascinating to see sociology thought from an American perspective. Thank you for sharing your lectures and the stories you include to help understand these concepts.

Thank you for uploading these videos. Students in Thailand can learn about this.

What is the reading material for this class?

Audio 🔉 and pictures are very poor.

Does anybody know which pages of 10 to 15 pages the students were supposed to read?

your experiment is making an Indian student get access to sociology. thanks

Thank you for uploading this lecture. I am understanding Durkheim better especially his sucide even though I am not a sociology student ❤❤

Great lecture. Deplorable controlling academic attitude.

Thanks for the great lecture.

15:20 please 🙏 correct the word "less likely" to "more likely" because IT CHANGES THE WHOLE CONTEXT!

Really interesting powerful lecture on Sociology. Great, Thank for the video .

Why does the slide say "Lecture 11" but the website says "Lecture 15"? lol jw

An interesting contrast to the "universal incest taboo" is that there's a relatively universal opposite in which the god/kings of societies strictly reproduce via incest. Look at, for instance, the Habsburgs or the lineage of Akhenaten, among many others. When you see how far their DNA degenerates, one starts to realize why the taboo exists. In contrast, however, it is understandable though why god/kings would seek to maintain their divine purity however, by only sleeping with as close of relatives as possible.