Understanding Societal Constructs

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Skill: beginner
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Last Update: March 13, 2025

Course Overview

This course introduces the foundational principles of economic and political systems, exploring how they shape society and maintain power dynamics. By understanding these systems, students will gain insights into the ways they influence individual freedoms and societal cohesion. Through case studies, documentaries, and reflective exercises, students will analyze economic crises, societal control mechanisms, and the relationship between political power and economic interests. This course will provide essential tools for critical thinking and enable students to recognize the impact of these systems on their own lives.

Course Benefits

  • Develop a foundational understanding of how economic and political systems function.
  • Build critical thinking skills to assess the influence of power structures on society.
  • Gain the ability to recognize and analyze societal control mechanisms and their impact.
  • Learn how media, government, and corporations perpetuate societal control.
  • Develop critical thinking skills to analyze and question power structures.
  • Build awareness of societal constructs and their impact on individual freedom.
  • Understand the mechanisms of modern societal "enslavement."
  • Learn about the connections between economic crises and social structures.

Who this course is for

  • Individuals interested in understanding societal structures and the influence of economic and political power.
  • Students and professionals seeking knowledge on how power dynamics affect personal and collective freedoms.
  • Anyone aiming to critically analyze current economic and political events and their impacts on society.

Courses materials

  • Documentaries:
  • Zeitgeist
  • Inside Job
  • The Story of Our Enslavement
  • Books:
  • La fabrique du consentement by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
  • Choc des civilisations by Samuel P. Huntington
  • La société de l'indécence by Pierre Lévy
  • Le capital au XXIe siècle by Thomas Piketty
  • La crise des subprimes by Laurent Berrebi
  • Les nouveaux chiens de garde by Serge Halimi
  • Reflective Writing Assignments
  • Quizzes for reinforcement

Course Content

  • Introduction to Economic and Political Systems

    • Introduction to Economic and Political Systems-01

    • Practical Application – Introduction to Economic and Political Systems

      • Ressources- Videos

        • Zeitgest-Mandatory

        • Zeitgest Documentary

        • The Corporation-Optional

        • The Corporation

        • Requiem for the American Dream by Noam Chomsky-Optional

        • Requiem for the American Dream

        • dettes crise balabal

      • Ressources-Reading

        • Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman-Mandatory

        • Manufacturing Consent - Mandatory

        • The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington-Optional

        • The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington - Optional

        • Optional - The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

        • Optional - The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

  • Analyzing Economic Crise

    • Analyzing Economic Crises

    • Practical Application – Analyzing Economic Crises

      • Ressources - Videos

        • Mandatory ------ Inside Job

        • Mandatory ------ Documentary: Inside Job

        • Optional ------ Documentary: The Big Short

        • Optional ------ The Big Short

        • Optional ------ Money, Power, and Wall Street

        • Optional ------ Money, Power and Wall Street

      • Ressources - Reading

        • Mandatory------ Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

        • Mandatory ------ Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

        • Optional ------ The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

        • Optional ------ The Shoch Doctrine

        • Optional ------ Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

        • Optional ------ Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

  • The Story of Our Enslavement

    • The Story of Our Enslavement

    • Practical Application: The Story of Our Enslavement

      • Ressources - Videos

        • Mandatory ------ The Story of our Enslavement

        • Mandatory - The Story of our Enslavement

        • Optional ------ Century of the Self (BBC)

        • Optional - The Century of the Self

        • Optional ------ HyperNormalisation

        • Optional - Hypernormalisation

      • Ressources - Reading

        • Mandatory ------ Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

        • Mandatory - Discipline and Punish

        • Optional ------ The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

        • Optional - The Origins of Totalitarianism

        • Optional ------ Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

        • Optional - Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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  • Course Level Beginner
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  • Last Update March 13, 2025
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