Here are more than 50 sociologically relevant lectures, interviews, and discussions of varying length, mainly by professors from leading universities in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. To hear them, click on the underlined Web addresses below the lecturers' names. NOTE: You will need the RealPlayer Basic plug-in. It is available free of charge by clicking here http://www.real.com/products/player/index.html. (You do not need RealPlayer Plus, for which there is a charge.)

Topic                                                    Lecturer(s)                                  Duration

The Argument Culture                           Deborah Tannen                             38 m

http://www.annonline.com/interviews/990310/

Could Technology Change                     Greg Bear, Rick Rashid,                 47 m
What it Means to Be Human?                 Lee Hartwell     

http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=02/22/2001&PrgID=5

Criminal Justice: 10 Lectures                David J.W. Vanderhoof                   45 m each

http://www.uncp.edu/home/vanderhoof/prison.html

Cyborg Babies                                       Joseph Dumit                                  45 m
                                                              Robbie Davis-Floyd

http://www.annonline.com/interviews/980911

Drug Policy: Seventeen Lectures          various                                            1-2 h each

http://mir.drugtext.org/tlc/news/seminar_archive2.html

http://www.lindesmith.org/news/seminar_archive2.html

The Future in Plain Sight                      Eugene Linden                               38 m

http://www.annonline.com/interviews/980910/

Introductory Sociology:
Eleven Lectures                                   Thomas Klassen                              25 m each

http://www.trentu.ca/academic/sociology/faculty/klassen/klassen13.htm

Max Weber and World-Denying Love    Robert Bellah                                   60 m

http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/3434MaxWeber&World-Denying.rm

The National Sex Panic                         various                                           6 h 51 m

http://www.managingdesire.org/sexpanic/sexpanicindex.html

The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture          Daniel Harris                                   54 m

http://www.annonline.com/interviews/990305/

Sociology of the Internet:                      Robert E. Wood                              2 h each
Six Lectures

http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood/445course.html

Violence: Sociological vs.                       Biological Explanations

Adriane Raine                                Dorothy Nelkin Craig Ferris

51 m

http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Oct/hour2_100695.html

Who Owns the Human Genome?           Rebecca Eisenberg,                        47 m
                                                               Roy Whitfield                   

http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=02/12/2001&PrgID=5

Why Unions Matter                                Michael D. Yates                            36 m

http://www.annonline.com/interviews/990316/

Will Spiritual Robots  Replace Humanity by 2100?                     Proceedings of a conference at  Stanford University, 1 April 2000

Douglas Hofstadter Bill Joy, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, etc.

3 h

http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?program_id=82

Women and Sport                                 BBC News                                       19 m

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_307000/307769.stm

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