• The individual and society

• Lives in context

• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Charles Evers - Mohandas Gandhi - Margaret Thatcher  Marvin Minsky - Kathleen Norris - Alphonso Jackson

• Class

• E. M. Forster: Where Angles Fear to Tread (1905)
• Queen Victoria - Victorian era (1837-1901) -
• Social Structure of the UK
• Social Class in America - Aaron Swartz - NPR - PBS
• Social issues in Germany - Education in Germany

• Rights and responsibilities

• WPost: Welfare state growing despite overhauls (2007)
• Medicaid - food stamp program - “Obamacare“ - social care
• NHS - healthcare in the UK - healthcare in Germany

• Volunteering

• John F. Kennedy: inaugural address (1961) - text
• Network for Good - networkforgood.org - volunteer
• Kenneth R. Thompson: “Compassion’s heart“

• Personal freedom

• Observer: Single and happy: it’s the freemales (2008)
• Idiom - English idioms - American idioms

• Rebelling against society

• Sex Pistols: God save the Queen - interview (2007)
• The punk movement - punk history
• thepunksite.com - interview with Mike Ness (Social D)

• Expressing yourself in the right register

• Phrasal verbs - examples / exercises
• Observer: Idle hands, idle minds (2002)

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