![]() Tags: immigration/citizenship, nationalism, politics/election/voting, prejudice/discrimination, race/ethnicity, social mvmts/social change/resistance, assimilation, boundary work, imagined communities, nation, tea party, 21 to 60 mins Year: 2010 Length: 23:19 Access: YouTube Summary: This clip is a short news documentary from Al Jazeera's Fault Line and features Josh Rushing's reporting on Arizona's new immigration law, known as Senate Bill 1070 (SB 1070). The new law specifies that it is a misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents, leading critics to charge that the law effectively codifies racial profiling. Rushing interviews, Arizona State Senator, Russell Pearce, Tea Party protesters, undocumented residents, and members of local law enforcement for the piece. In addition to being informative about issues regarding immigration and citizenship, the clip might be useful for illustrating the continuing relevance of nationalism and how nationalist ideologies incite people to action. At about 6:18, Rushing notes how people feel "victimized, as if the immigrants are taking something from them." The clip also provocatively connects politics with the economy and suggests that illegal immigration is a convenient scapegoat handed to people who have been hit particularly hard by the recent recession. Submitted By: Lester Andrist
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![]() Tags: foucault, knowledge, lgbtq, sex/sexuality, theory, asexuality, identity politics, queer theory, wilchins, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2010 Length: 3:48 Access: Kickstarter.com Summary: This is a promotional clip intended to raise money to complete a documentary film about asexuality. The clip's description explains that while the asexuality movement was inspired by the LGBT movement of the 1960s, some members of the asexual community are hesitant about being a part of the broader LGBT community. The filmaker poses the question: Can asexuals--members of a group who have rejected sex--be members of the sex-positive pride march? This clip might be useful in a class on the sociology of sexuality or gender, as it wrestles very directly with the topic of identity politics. The clip might also work well as an accompaniment to Foucault's The History of Sexuality or Wilchins' excellent primer, Queer Theory, Gender Theory. Using this clip, one could ask students to reflect on the way sexual identities, which scarcely existed 200 years ago, are now a primary means by which people politically organize themselves. The clip would work well with another short promotional film called "The Bi-deology Project," which similarly argues that bisexuality is an identity that needs to be recognized. Submitted By: Lester Andrist ![]() Tags: government/the state, media, politics/election/voting, chomsky, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2009 Length: 5:58 Access: YouTube Summary: In this clip, professor Justin Lewis discusses the role of the US media in "manufacturing consent." The media, Lewis explains, is not used as a device which necessarily tells people what to think, but rather, it tells them what to think about and is therefore an agenda setting device. Lewis further discusses the role the media plays in elections by giving the American public the illusion of a distinct choice between political candidates, when in fact differences between Democrats and Republicans across substantive economic issues are often very minor. I have successfully used this clip in an introductory sociology class as a means of sparking discussion about the power of the media. The clip works particularly well as a means of supplementing Noam Chomsky's book, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. Submitted By: Lester Andrist ![]() Tags: Inequality, lgbtq, prejudice/discrimination, marriage/family, sex/sexuality, same sex marriage, marriage equality, 06 to 10 mins Year: 2010 Length: 6:38 Access: YouTube Summary: This is a compilation of interview questions between Fox News host Chris Wallace and conservative lawyer, Ted Olson, who represented Bush in Bush v. Gore. He appeared on Fox News to discuss his recent victory in overturning Prop 8, which banned same-sex marriage. Throughout this compilation, Olson defends marriage equality (i.e. same sex marriage) against several common conservative critiques, and stresses marriage as a right upheld by the constitution. Submitted By: Paul Dean ![]() Tags: discourse/language, gender, media, sex/sexuality, social construction, masculinity, popular culture, 06 to 10 mins Year: 2009 Length: 6:70 (segment 1) and 1:30 (segment 2) Access: YouTube Summary: In the summer of 2009, the reality TV show The Bachelorette featured a fascinating discussion about "Man Code." Originally appearing in the men's magazine Maxim, Man Code is a "collection of rules that every man should live by." I use this clip in my Sociology of Gender class, asking student to use Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity and Kimmel's concept of masculinity as homophobia to make sense of (1) what Man Code is, (2) how it is policed, and (3) who does the policing. The discussion of Man Code takes place in segment 1 (starts around min. 3:36) and segment 2 (runs until approx. min. 1:30) of this episode. Submitted By: Valerie Chepp ![]() Tags: children/youth, gender, social construction, masculinity, socialization, 00 to 05 mins Year: 1994 Length: 1:53 Access: YouTube Summary: This is a short clip from the The Smell of Burning Ants, "a haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male...Through formative events of a boy’s life, we come to understand the ways in which men can become emotionally disconnected and alienated from their feminine side. The common dismissal that “boys will be boys” evolves into the chilling realization that boys frequently become angry, destructive and emotionally disabled men. The Smell of Burning Ants illustrates how boys are socialized by fear, power and shame" (description from the film's website). There are also parts 1, 2 and 3 available on YouTube. Submitted By: Valerie Chepp ![]() Tags: psychology/social psychology, methodology/statistics, authority, ethics, milgram experiment, 06 to 10 mins Year: 2007 Length: 10:47 Access: YouTube Summary: In this clip, Derren Brown of "The Heist" reproduces the Milgram experiment. As in the original, participants are asked to administer electrical shocks to a "learner." While Brown narrates the camera captures all the anxiety, trepidation, and ultimately, the compliance of study participants. The clip is useful for giving students a sense of an experimental research design, but it also serves as an excellent means of opening up discussion about ethics. Namely, is it ethical to make people believe-even if temporarily-they are causing harm to others? Was it an ethical experiment, given what many subjects learned about themselves, that they would administer lethal shocks to people simply because a man in a white lab coat told them to? Submitted By: Lester Andrist |
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