Video and Multimedia
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Violence Against Women Social Movement
Description: CNN interview with renowned activist and feminist writer, Eve Ensler, about “One Billion Rising,” an emerging social international movement to combat violence and atrocities committed against women. She also discusses the history of violence against women across global settings, and the efforts that the new campaigns sponsor to support women leaders.
Learning Objective: 12-2: Describe key sources of social change in society.
Description: TED talk addressing the use of peaceful protest to fight extreme force without using force in return, providing historically exemplary leaders of this form of social movement
Learning Objective: 12-1: Apply sociological perspectives to understand characteristics and paths of social change.
$15 Minimum Wage in the United States
Description: Prominent economist and policy leader contextualizes the social movement of the Fight for $15. He dispels common arguments against raising the minimum wage and presents evidence of the economic and social benefits of giving full-time employees in the United States a working wage.
Learning Objective: 12-3: Identify different types of social movements.
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Fast-Food Workers Strike for Living Wage
Description: NPR Morning Edition story about the Fight for $15 by fast-food workers, and presents arguments from protestors for a living wage, as well as corporate supporters’ explication that higher wages would result in job losses, more selective hiring practices, and increased automation in food production to offset more expensive workers.
Learning Objective: 12-3: Identify different types of social movements
Description: NPR news story reflection on the last 50 years of civil protests and riots spurred by racial discrimination and brutality experienced in African American communities, with accompanying articles and documentary photographs.
Learning Objective: 12-2: Describe key sources of social change in society.
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Description: NPR news story reflection on the last 50 years of civil protests and riots spurred by racial discrimination and brutality experienced in African American communities, with accompanying articles and documentary photographs.
Learning Objective: 12-3: Identify different types of social movements.
Social Movement Leadership as an Alternative to Bureaucracy?
Description: This Contexts article discusses a novel approach of using decision-making usually found in social movements and leadership dynamics as a template for improving the running of national level government. The author provides examples of recent successful grassroots social movements as contexts for testing out this possibility.
Learning Objective: 12-1: Apply sociological perspectives to understand characteristics and paths of social change.