AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (DD100)
新世紀社會科學
At the start of the new millennium, the speed of social change seems to be accelerating. Certainties of everyday life seem to be shifting, leaving us feeling less and less sure of the world around us. Who are we? Who can we trust? What do we know? This series uses geography, sociology, economics, politics, psychology and social policy to explore these questions of identity, nationality, globalization, power and knowledge.

踏入新紀元，社會急劇的轉變對人類生活起了重大的衝擊，社會上充斥不同的疑惑。本系列從地理學、社會學、經濟學、政治學和心理學角度對社會文化作出多方面的探討。

1. THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS (DD100/03V)
非常嫌疑犯：傷殘人士
How does society view, interact with and order disability? The Unusual Suspects explores the way society and science - both medical and social - have variously constructed disability as medical, natural and social and what implications this has for both disabled people and society as a whole. The programme concludes with a survey of current developments in genetic science - including cochlea implants, pregnancy screening and genetic manipulation - and an evaluation of the implications of these 'breakthroughs' for disability.

誰是傷殘人士？何謂傷殘？二十世紀傷殘已經從醫療問題轉變為社會問題。傷殘人士需要改變個人去適應，消除社會障礙和改造社會。他們同樣可以享受優質生活，可以工作、過獨立生活並獲公平對待。英文發音，配上中文字幕。

29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles

2. LIVING WITH RISK (DD100/04V)
失業：職場轉變
This programme offers an insight into UK labour market relations in the last 50 years. Through a series of employment histories of individuals drawn from a variety of social backgrounds, ages and ethnicities, the programme explores a range of issues including employment experience and how employment affects identity. This reveals that employment history and experience is not homogenous: class, gender and ethnicity cut across the meaning of work. As well as surveying the past, the programme maps current employment trends, asking who the winners and losers are in the new world of work.

大多數人都期望有一份終身的職業，世界性經濟不景氣與機構的合併甚至裁員，很多人遭遣散以致失業令生活沒有保障。在這種事業前途不明朗的大氣候下，應該何去何從呢？英文發音，配上中文字幕。

29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles

3. GLOBAL FANTASY II: THE IRRESISTIBLE SPREAD OF THE COMPUTER GAME? (DD100/05V)
電腦遊戲：全球文化
This programme explores the world of Japanese and UK produced computer games; looking at examples of gaming culture, consumption, development and production within a global market. Focusing on contemporary popular games such as 'Pokemon', 'Tomb Raider' and 'Final Fantasy', the programme investigates evidence for national cultural differences in computer games in an increasingly global market.

「寵物小精靈」、「太空戰士」、「盜墓者羅拉」、「聖女密碼」，電腦遊戲已成為重要的文化工業。自日本新力公司推出Playstation，軟件開發商例如：英國Squaresoft，日本世嘉，美國的Edidos相繼推出風靡全球的電腦遊戲，而微軟亦會推出XBox新型遊戲機。電腦遊戲反映製作人地區的文化，不管東西方思想將融合形成全球文化和精采的遊戲。英文發音，配上中文字幕。

29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles

4. MOTHER KNOWS BEST? (DD100/06V)
母親最醒？
Using parenting as an illustrative example, this programme explores the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge. The programme examines two common issues facing parents, one old (the child who will not sleep) and one new (the possible side effects of the MMR "measles-mumps-rubella" vaccine). The programme considers issues relating specifically to child care - the agencies involved in the social construction of both motherhood and childhood - and more general issues of knowledge and knowing, including the decline of authority, the rise of new sources of knowledge and the relations, and conflicts between them.

從前簡樸的歲月，我們會信任醫生和信任科學。但時移勢易，生活在資訊爆炸的年代在很多方面被資訊轟炸，以往歷代相傳的知識，例如：幼兒保健常識，都受到新知識的衝擊。現在該信任誰？我們必須懂得如何在這資訊爆炸年代與知識並存。英文發音，配上中文字幕。

29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles