Video and Multimedia

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Video Links:

  • 16.1 Low Prices at the Cost of Low Wages
    Description: While some economists credit Wal-Mart’s single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home.
     
  • 16.2 Social Change and the Media
    Description: In a four-part special series, News War, FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn. 
     
  • 16.3 Occupy Wall Street
    Description: A short film on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Included: facts behind big banks, history of social change and a first hand observation of the protest itself. 
     
  • 16.4 The New American Dream
    Description: For the first time in history, the majority of American parents don't think their kids will be better off than they were. This shouldn't be a cause for alarm, says journalist Courtney Martin. Rather, it's an opportunity to define a new approach to work and family that emphasizes community and creativity.

Audio Links:

  • 16.1 Social Engineering
    Description: Governments are always looking for ways to change behavior—stopping people from driving drunk, or encouraging them to recycle. This podcast contains stories of social engineering on a smaller scale.
     
  • 16.2 No Place Like Home
    Description: There are lots of ways we define where we're from. And whether we're proud of it, or ashamed of it, love it, hate it, miss it or are trying desperately to get back to it — where we're from is always a big part of who we are.

Web Resources:

  • 16.1 Social Movements
    Description: This article takes a look at the 10 social movements that changed America.
     
  • 16.2 Flash Mob Movements
    Description: This article from Contexts Magazine examines the components of flash mobs and how they form.
     
  • 16.3 Women and Social Movements
    Description: This article from Pacific Standard Magazine examines the participation rates of women in regards to social movements compared to the participation rates of men.