Friday, September 20, 2013

Creating References

For your first assignment, you will need to turn in 4 references, or sources where you get information about a subject.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Power points: Race and Ethnicity.


Race: A Social Construct- Videos and Articles

Here are a few extra resources highlighting how race is a social construct:

A Class Divided: School Teacher, Jane Elliot, creates "races" within her classroom

Understanding Race: A really great website that shows race and ethnicity around the world, and how we socially construct race.

A Complete Guide to Hipster Racism: Modern day racism and how it is more subtle but still prevalent


Thursday, January 24, 2013

Power Points: Social Stratification.

Children of the Mountains

Click on the link to view the entire show "Hidden America: Children of the Mountains"

Discussion questions: Do you think that these people are stuck, or do you think everyone has a chance to get out? What are their life chances? Does their caste and class system make them privileged or penalized?  

Communist Manifes"toon"

Here is a short video explaining the "Communist Manifesto," one of Karl Marx's most important works.


Power Points: Deviance