Experts from diverse perspectives explore new understanding of human society.
Explore society from a range of perspectives, including socio-economic class structure, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, health and aging, crime, work and labor studies, and the social interactions of everyday life. Recent content includes an interactive tutorial to help users recognize their societal privileges and the origins of the moniker “Karen.”
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| Children of Katrina | Dr. Alice Fothergill discusses her longitudinal research on the children who survived Hurricane Katrina. She found that how well children recover from the disaster can be linked to how vulnerable they were before it happened. | Video Case |  |
| Cougars: New Sexual Scripts for Older Women | Professor Beth Montemurro discusses "cougars" and the changing ideas about older women's sexuality. The dominant sexual script in the United States sees older women as asexual. However, acceptance of sexual behavior among this group is growing, partly linked to the alternative script of the "cougar"--an older woman pairing with a younger man. | Video Case |  |
| Classical Sociological Theory, 1830 to 1930 | Professor Jonathan H. Turner explains the history and development of sociology as a science. he also describes the three main conflicting stances of sociology: hard science vs. nonscience, activism vs. value neutrality, and explaining vs. agency. | Tutorial |  |
| Abigail Andrews on Joy as Resilience |
Abigail Andrews, PhD, an associate professor at the University of California, discusses joy as resilience, including joy as political resistance, how radical joy functions with trauma, and dancing as a trauma-coping method. | Interview |  |