CESO 0909 - Facebook, MySpace, and the Development of the Social Self

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Brown University

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Description:

This course will use students’ experiences with social networking sites to explore basic sociological concepts of social identity, social roles, membership in various groups of ascription and achievement and the contextual effects of culture and other social institutions. Facebook and MySpace, familiar to most students, offer an interesting, self-referential, and conceptually rich means of introducing students to sociology. We will research these sites to determine how participants structure their self-presentations, how social groups are formed, and how students respond to the presentations of others.

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0.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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