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Audio Resources

Audio Link 10.1: Taxes and Nontraditional Families

Description: A discussion of how unmarried couples living together in the same household navigate the U.S. tax code.

Learning Objective: 10.3: Provide examples of how families interact with other institutions.

Audio Link 10.2: In “Transparent,” Transgender Issues Are a Family Affair

Description: NPR reviews Hollywood’s takes on family dynamics after one parent reveals to their grown children that they identify as transgender.

Learning Objective: 10.1: Discuss how definitions of families are socially constructed and change over time.

Audio Link 10.3: Why Aren’t Students Showing Up for College?

Description: This piece explores the phenomenon of ‘summer melt’ whereby more than 40% of students who sign up for college never make it to the university in the fall.

Learning Objective: 10.7: Present evidence that schools contribute to the reproduction of social class.

Video Resources

Video Link 10.1: Arranged Marriages

Description: This video examines arranged marriages with regard to where they take place and why so many people accept this form of marriage as the norm.

Learning Objective: 10.1: Discuss how definitions of families are socially constructed and change over time.

Video Link 10.2: Marriage

Description: In this funny, casual talk from TEDx, writer Jenna McCarthy shares surprising research on how marriages (especially happy marriages) really work.

Learning Objective: 10.1: Discuss how definitions of families are socially constructed and change over time.

Video Link 10.3: The Education Revolution

Description: Education Revolution focuses on how education is changing to adapt to our new digital world, examining what the classroom might look like in the future and the impact of online teaching, with talks from innovators in the field of education.

Learning Objective: 10.6: Explain the formal and informal structures of schools

Web Resources

Web Link 10.1: Monday Numbers: What Does the Modern American Family Look Like?

Description: This article takes a statistically based approach at describing the changing family dynamics in America.

Learning Objective: 10.1: Discuss how definitions of families are socially constructed and change over time.

Web Link 10.2: Friendsgiving

Description: Some millennials are ditching the traditional Thanksgiving meal with their family and establishing new traditions with their ‘chosen’ family.

Learning Objective: 10.1: Discuss how definitions of families are socially constructed and change over time.

Web Link 10.3: School Funding Fairness

Description: According to a recent report by the Education Law Center in most states the public school funding remains unfair and inequitable, depriving millions of U.S. students of the opportunity for school success.

Learning Objective: 10.7: Present evidence that schools contribute to the reproduction of social class.