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• The Social Construction of Reality 

10 minute video photo essayabout the social construction of reality and the associated unexamined assumptions and inferences with which we generally identify.

• Piaget

A 22-minute video provides an overview of Piaget’s developmental theory. Describes the impact of Piaget’s work in research, education, and psychology. It includes clips of Piaget’s lectures and clips of children at different developmental stages. Dr. David Elkind , one of Piaget's previous students describes the course of Piaget’s life.

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

This is a 3 minute preview of the full length documentary entitled "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs."  Comments by scholars and educators in a cross-section of disciplines highlighting how the hierarchy of needs theory relates to such disciplines as business and psychology.

• Why are human societies so unequal?

A brief video posing questions about the inequality in society.  Good springboard to begin discussion around comparing and contrasting conflict theory and systems theoretical perspectives.

• Albert Bandura, Social Learning and his Bobo Doll experiment 

An interesting discussion about Bandura’s Social Learning Theory that includes illustrations and clips of interviews with Bandura and his famous experiments with the Bobo doll.  This is a doctoral candidate's project for an education class and Action Research Class and is very well done.