Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Video and Multimedia
Video
Learning Objective: Describe the transition from agricultural to industrial production.
Description: History.com describing the revolution in America, the benefits and the rebellion of the working class due to conditions and the wealth gap. The beginning of Progressive Era reform introduced.
Learning Objective: Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work
Description: 1943 government recruitment film to get women into nontraditional workplaces.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between unemployment and underemployment. Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Reuters report on what some highly skilled executives are doing after losing their jobs.
Substituting part-time jobs is one of the strategies for people who are unemployed due to the recession.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between unemployment and underemployment. Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work
Description: U.S. jobs are flowing overseas to subsidiaries and contracted labor. The viewers are asked to suggest what should be done about the problem.
Learning Objective: Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work
Description: CBS Sunday Morning report on Google perks. Business considerations drive their design of perks. It’s “social engineering.”
Learning Objective: Identify which forms of discrimination workers are protected against . Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Satirical commentator John Oliver takes aim at sweatshop labor practices that produce what sociologist Juliet Shor has called “fast fashion” for our consumer society.
Learning Objective: Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Social entrepreneur’s coffee shop business uses food to entice people into activism. Her business started with a typical plan and ended up showing the path into activism, increasing happiness and raising consciousness.
Learning Objective: Identify how labor unions have changed their membership strategy. Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Profile of union workers who are looking for young recruits. Explains why unions work and why new workers should join.
Audio
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between unemployment and underemployment. Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Investigates whether automation make our jobs easier or turns people into robot drones. Shows how automation has moved beyond the factory to help us make decisions, find our way around town, and connect with our friends.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between unemployment and underemployment. Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Robert Putnam thinks the American Dream is in crisis because only some are able to attain upward mobility. More than money, education of the parents is a determinant for the children.
Web Resources
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between unemployment and underemployment. Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Economic Policy Institute analysis of the recession, with links to graphs with focus on wage workers and effects on low and middle income earners.
Learning Objective: Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Map and table listing the most common job in every state in 1978, 1996 and 2014. Gives an indicator of how the economy has changed over time.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between unemployment and underemployment. Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: The Nov. 2014 jobs report showed an increase of over 300,000 jobs, better than expected. Blue collar jobs were among those added to the economy, but “the Great Recession still casts a long shadow.”
Learning Objective: Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: Explore employment, housing and other local community statistics through this interactive website.
Learning Objective: Compare how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to work.
Description: List of five important effects of the outsourcing of jobs domestically and internationally.