Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
Sep 15, 2009 · Jean Piaget, a psychologist who published his most influential works from the late 1920s through the 1950s, is most known for his theory of stages of cognitive development. He suggested a four-stage model that children go through as they develop more complex reasoning skills. Children start out in the sensorimotor stage, which lasts until they ...
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Sociological Images. World Suffering. CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike. The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
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Lisa Wade, PhD, is the founder of Sociological Images. Born and raised in California, she earned a BA in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in human sexuality from NYU, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is an Associate Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, with appointments in Sociology, Gender ...
5 Famous Social Scientists and Why They Matter
Dec 2, 2011 · Du Bois was born in 1868 in Massachusetts and was a stern advocate for civil rights. In his book “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade,” he even included an attack on civil rights leader Booker T. Washington for not doing more in the campaign for civil rights. Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith – A dual of social scientists took on ...
The Color of Fear - Sociology Source
Aug 2, 2010 · The Color of Fear. Nathan on August 2, 2010. The Color of Fear is a emotionally charged film that will leave your students talking and rethinking their perception of the world around them. The film places eight men in a room to talk about race, prejudice, and discrimination. There are two men who are Hispanic, two who are African American, two ...
Gingerism: Prejudice Against Redheads - Sociological Images
Mar 16, 2012 · Gingerism: Prejudice Against Redheads. Lisa Wade, PhD on March 16, 2012. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow, I thought I’d re-post this one from 2010…. Some recent ads making fun of redheads has brought gingerism — or hateful attitudes and behavior towards people with red hair, light skin, and freckles — into the news lately.
Is Breaking the Law Bad? Practical vs. Moral Approaches to the Law
Apr 8, 2016 · Practical vs. Moral Approaches to the Law. Lisa Wade, PhD on April 8, 2016. Flashback Friday. Americans tend to conflate the law and morality. We believe, that is, that we make things illegal because they’re immoral. While we might admit that there are exceptions, we tend to think that our laws generally reflect what is right and wrong, not a ...
Physiognomy: Faces, Bodies, and the “Science” of Human Character
Jan 30, 2015 · Flashback Friday. Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught.Also available on Amazon.The book can best be described as an application of the theory of physiognomy, which is the idea that you can tell all kinds of things about a “person’s character or personality from their ...
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: COLLEGE ENROLLMENT IN CONTEXT
Todd Beer on August 16, 2014. An understanding of the sociological imagination can be difficult in our very individually focused society. As a topic, the sociological imagination is usually the first or second class of every introduction to sociology course. Teaching topics by relating them to students’ immediate context (especially early in ...
Irish Apes: Tactics of De-Humanization - Sociological Images
Jan 28, 2011 · In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and justify their oppression and exploitation. This is familiar to most Americans as something that is done peculiarly to Black people (as examples, see here, here, and here).. The history of U.S. discrimination against the Irish, however, offers an interesting comparative data point.