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Bill Moyers Journal: Simon Schama on the American Future
Item# 40186
© 2009
59 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-369-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-370-8
Historian Simon Schama looks at America with the eye of a curious and intrigued visitor, a traveler who helps us see ourselves as others see us-and, perhaps, as we really are. In this edition of the J...
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Confronting Discrimination and Prejudice
Item# 39471
© 2008
37 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-336-4
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-337-1
Encourage students to explore biases and stereotypes with this group of ABC News segments. Each scenario puts actors into exchanges with unwitting bystanders, generating a wide range of responses-from...
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Opposing Aggression and Bullying
Item# 39473
© 2008
38 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-340-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-341-8
Initiate lectures and class dialogue with this cluster of ABC News segments on violence, aggressive behavior, and crime. In each scenario, actors draw unassuming spectators into tense and often distur...
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Standing Up as a Citizen
Item# 39472
© 2008
33 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-338-8
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-339-5
Spark class discussion on civic responsibility with this compilation of ABC News segments. Each scenario involves onlookers who-unaware that they are observing actors in staged situations-exhibit a va...
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What Would You Do? Instinctive Reactions and What They Reveal
Item# 39470
© 2008
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-334-0
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-335-7
What happens when ordinary people become witnesses to upsetting events-such as a theft in progress, the possibility of domestic violence, or the abuse of another citizen's civil rights? Do most people...
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Core Concepts in Sociology
Item# 40119
© 2007
38 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-534-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-535-1
Sociology, in a nutshell, is about why people behave in the ways that they do, and the key premise is that behavior is shaped by the contexts in which people live. This multi-segment program introduce...
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Doing Sociological Research
Item# 40138
© 2007
37 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-532-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-533-7
This multi-segment program focuses on the world of education as it addresses aspects of how to conduct sociological research. After defining what exactly constitutes research, the video defines the co...
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Understanding Sociology
Item# 40132
© 2007
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-520-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-521-4
This seven-part series discusses origins, core concepts, and applications of sociological theory, sociology's relationship to evolving societal frameworks, the conducting of sociological research, and...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Katrina Recovery Gone Wrong? / Scholar Manuel Vasquez
Item# 39172
© 2007
58 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-9144-1
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-9145-8
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, tens of thousands of people in Mississippi are still displaced-in limbo, with no solution in sight. This edition of Bill Moyers Journal profiles the Steps Coalition,...
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Game Theory: Lost in New York
Item# 36260
© 2006
41 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5754-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5755-3
What if twelve strangers were deposited in separate locations all over New York City and ordered to find each other-without being told where to look? This ABC News program presents an intriguing psych...
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