Video and Multimedia
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Video
Perceptions of Wealth Inequality
Description: This video provides a graphical representation of the scale of income inequality in the United States.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe dimensions of socioeconomic inequality in the United States.
Description: Video produced by Pew describing the processes affecting absolute and relative economic mobility in the pursuit of the American Dream.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Describe components of social class, including income, wealth, occupation, status, and political voice.
Educating Girls Improves Pathway to Health and Well-being
Description: A video created by the Population Reference Bureau to explain how attainment of secondary education leads to improved health outcomes for young women.
Learning Objective: 7-4: Discuss the problem of neighborhood poverty.
Celebrating Education for All Children
Description: Video documenting the United Nations declaration of Malala Day as a commitment to bringing education to all children.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Describe components of social class, including income, wealth, occupation, status, and political voice.
Description: TED talk by a technology activist, discussing the demographics of inequality and potential ways to reduce gaps in access to computers and Internet use.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe dimensions of socioeconomic inequality in the United States.
Audio
Inequality and the Economic Crisis
Description: NPR story on the links between income, education, and inequality in the United States during the recent financial crisis
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe dimensions of socioeconomic inequality in the United States.
Description: This Pacific Standard article critiques the behaviors and social identities of lead characters in popular television shows and movies.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Describe components of social class, including income, wealth, occupation, status, and political voice.
Smartphones and Growth of Global Culture in Africa
Description: Morning Edition audio story about the explosion of mobile phone usage as a means of Internet access, offering connections into international digital life.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe dimensions of socioeconomic inequality in the United States.
Unequal Costs and Benefits of Biofuels
Description: An audio story that explores the links between biofuels use in wealthier nations is linked to rising food costs for people living in poorer nations.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe dimensions of socioeconomic inequality in the United States.
Web
Structural Inequality and Parental Income
Description: A Pacific Standard article summarizing recent studies about income distributions and the intergenerational transmission of wealth in the United States
Learning Objective: 7-1: Identify characteristics of stratification in traditional and modern societies.
Description: Article about the dominant position of the United States as the leader in household wealth, with an illustration of global inequality and rankings of wealth by nation.
Learning Objective: 7-5: Analyze the existence and persistence of stratification and poverty from sociological perspectives.
World Bank Global Poverty Projections
Description: World Bank press release article about global poverty projections based on cross-national data collection and analysis efforts
Learning Objective: 7-1: Identify characteristics of stratification in traditional and modern societies.