Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Video and Multimedia
Video
Learning Objective: Explain human capital theory, Compare the four feminist waves
Description: Women are earning college degrees, holding jobs, leading independent lives at higher rates than men, reflected in cultural images of confused guys and superhero women. Cultural changes signify no glass ceiling, but a high bridge that takes courage to traverse.
Learning Objective: Describe how the different sociological perspectives explain problems related to sex and gender
Description: Jason Katz describes the confining definitions of masculinity boys and young men receive. Violence and domination in the media messages may result in painful outcomes for men and women.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between sex and gender. Distinguish the two types of occupational segregation
Description: ABC’s What Would You Do uses a hidden camera to explore the reactions of other shoppers when a young boy insists he wants a doll.
Learning Objective: Explain human capital theory. Compare the four feminist waves.
Description: Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee asks if the world can be transformed by tapping the potential of girls around the world. Despite lofty goals for children, African girls are still suffering, uneducated and forced into prostitution and they are not unique.
Learning Objective: Explain human capital theory; Distinguish the two types of occupational segregation, Compare the four feminist waves
Description: Women are closing education gap, but not the salary gap. The earnings gap, but the benefits of flex time, child care that women need and other elements that allow women to live more balanced lives.
Learning Objective: Distinguish the two types of occupational segregation, Compare the four feminist waves, Explain human capital theory
Description: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor surveys the many reasons for lower wages for women, from less experience, bad negotiation skills and uncertainty about women’s commitment to work.
Learning Objective: Describe how the different sociological perspectives explain problems related to sex and gender
Description: Oprah Winfrey shows video a 13 year-old boy was forced to take while his father abused his mother. With Oprah’s commentary.
Audio
Learning Objective: Describe how the different sociological perspectives explain problems related to sex and gender. Compare the four feminist waves.
Description: Are colleges becoming overwhelming female? With fewer males gaining college degrees, a gender imbalance is “inevitable” according to one analyst, but are women’s civil rights being violated in order to regain some balance?
Learning Objective: Compare the four feminist waves. Explain human capital theory.
Description: A new report from the National Partnership for Women and Families says most women who become pregnant are working, and some face job discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission addresses complaints, which have increased by 35%.
Learning Objective: Distinguish the two types of occupational segregation
Description: Putting cheerleading into the same category as softball and football might mean another women’s sport is eliminated from funding.
Web Resources
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between sex and gender. Distinguish the two types of occupational segregation.
Description: In a study that gender-typed toys and then rated them for educational value the National Association for the Education of Young Children found strongly gender-typed toys are less supportive of optimal development than neutral or moderately gender-typed toys. These
more gendered toys encourage concern about appearance for girls and aggressive play in boys.
Learning Objective: Distinguish the two types of occupational segregation. Explain human capital theory. Compare the four feminist waves.
Description: A 2015 American Association of University Women report on the wage gap with state by state details, strategies for individuals and social action suggestions.
Learning Objective: Distinguish the two types of occupational segregation
Description:
According to the American Medical Association’s diagnosis cheerleading should be a sport, but NCAA doesn’t include it and women athletics directors aren’t complaining. The reasons are complicated.
Favoritism in College Admissions
Learning Objective: Compare the four feminist waves
Description: Examination of 128 colleges’ admission statistics show unequal admissions by gender. Women are more likely to stay in college and gain a degree, and administrators say they want to maintain a co-ed campus.