Higher Sociology Understanding Human Society 1 Acknowledgements SFEU (Scottish Further Education Unit) gratefully acknowledges the contribution made to this publication by Learning and Teaching Scotland who have granted permission to use material previously pro...

The United State's invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, and the world- wide protests against these actions provides "fertile" material for sociological analysis, specifically from the perspective of conflict theory. Recent media attention given to the March 20th protests here i...

Under communism, only the tiniest fraction of people expressed open dissent against the system. The system tried to draw in as many people as possible as accomplices. One of the most effective means was the threat that a failure to actively denounce opponents of the ideology would mean classificatio...