Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology
Sixth Edition
Video and Multimedia
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Video Links:
- 9.1 Tough “Guise”
Description: Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States at the dawn of the 21st century.
- 9.2 Advertising and Women
Description: This video examines how women are portrayed in the media in a discriminatory manner.
- 9.3 Sexism
Description: In this fascinating talk, founder of the award-winning EverydaySexismProject, Laura Bates, talks about her inspiring initiative. The EveryDaySexism is an ever-increasing collection of over 50,000 women's experiences of gender imbalance. The stories come from women of all ages, races and sexual orientations, disabled and non-disabled, employed and unemployed, religious and non-religious.
- 9.4 Online Sexism
Description: Julia Hardy tells us how she uses humor to combat endemic online sexism, and explains how the actions of this small percentage of men not only adversely affect and change women’s behavior, but actually cause detriment to other men.
Audio Links:
- 9.1 Being a Girl
Description: Variations on what it means to be a girl and what it means to be a woman.
- 9.2 Politics and Sexism
Description: A roundtable of women discuss how Sen. Clinton's gender has affected her campaign and how her candidacy has shaped the national conversation about the role of women.
- 9.3 Homosexuality
Description: The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
Web Resources:
- 9.1 Politics
Description: Republicans across the country are blasting Donald Trump for spewing sexist comments in a despicable videotape revealed Friday — and some are even withdrawing their support for the raucous mogul and calling on him to step down as the party's nominee.
- 9.2 Women factory workers
Description: Honduras is the third largest exporter of clothes and textiles to the U.S. market, employing approximately 110,000 workers, 53% of whom are young women from deprived backgrounds with little education. Many of the clothing factories are found in Honduras' 24 Export Processing Zones (EPZs), industrial areas with low or non-existent taxes and a cheap labor force designed to attract foreign investment.
- 9.3 Sexual Orientation
Description: This article from Contexts Magazine looks at how sexual orientation may differ for both men and women.
- 9.4 Children and Sexual Orientation
Description: This article from Pacific Standard Magazine looks at the issues pertaining to whether or not parents should be able to choose their children's sexual orientation.