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300 Social Sciences

[May 18, 2026]
THE_MORIBUND_INSTITUTE // DEWEY CLASS 300

300 – Social Sciences

The Institute wing for society, politics, economics, education, law, media, institutions, customs, public life, group behavior, and the many strange systems by which humans organize, govern, confuse, persuade, classify, and occasionally improve themselves.

Shelves in 300

300 Social Sciences The main shelf for society, institutions, public life, and human systems. Sociology Groups, institutions, class, norms, identity, social behavior, and everyday systems. Politics Power, parties, states, elections, ideology, policy, governance, and public argument. Economics Markets, money, labor, incentives, trade, class, production, and economic life. Education Teaching, learning, schools, pedagogy, study systems, lessons, and public knowledge. Law Legal systems, courts, rights, rules, constitutions, contracts, and civic order. Media Studies News, propaganda, platforms, broadcasting, bias, attention, and public narrative machinery. Anthropology Culture, ritual, kinship, symbols, customs, folklore, and human variety. Civics Citizenship, public institutions, voting, local government, and civic participation. Public Policy Government programs, reforms, administrative systems, and practical political outcomes. Social Theory Frameworks for interpreting power, institutions, culture, society, and modernity. Video Commentary Media analysis, social criticism, online discourse, and the Institute’s watch-history whatnot.

Use this class when the post is mainly about people in groups: politics, media, institutions, education, economics, law, culture, or public behavior. If the post is primarily historical, also add a 900 History label. If it is about rhetoric or essays, also consider 800 Literature.

Suggested Lesson Types

Media Literacy Exercises for spotting framing, bias, sourcing, omission, and narrative strategy. Civics Lessons Short lessons about government, rights, elections, institutions, and public process. Argument Maps Break political or social arguments into claims, evidence, assumptions, and replies. Concept Drills Interactive vocabulary for terms like institution, norm, ideology, policy, and class. Case Studies Focused studies of events, movements, organizations, laws, platforms, or controversies. Interactive Exercises Tap-to-build, flashcards, quizzes, reading checks, and embed-based activities.

Example 300 Lesson Embed

A social sciences lesson can combine a short explanation with an interactive vocabulary or media-literacy exercise.

This is useful for civic vocabulary, media studies, political concepts, economics terms, or short comprehension checks after an article. 
<div class="mor-tap-to-build" data-questions='[
  {
    "prompt": "Put the social science sentence in order:",
    "phrase": "Institutions shape public behavior.",
    "answer": ["Institutions", "shape", "public", "behavior."],
    "distractors": ["quietly", "lantern", "purple", "ancient"]
  },
  {
    "prompt": "Build the media studies sentence:",
    "phrase": "Framing changes how a story is understood.",
    "answer": ["Framing", "changes", "how", "a", "story", "is", "understood."],
    "distractors": ["river", "machine", "only", "stone"]
  }
]'></div>

<script src="https://mor-blogger-embeds.pages.dev/tap-to-build/tap-to-build.js"></script>

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