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- Kanopy This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a provider of documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases available as streaming video. Clips from the videos can be embedded in presentations or shown in class. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
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- The Sociological Cinema The Sociological Cinema is a resource for using video and pop culture to teach and learn sociology. We started as a database of annotated video clips, and have since expanded into other forms of media to engage students in teaching and learning.
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- The Birth of Sociology (streaming, Kanopy) Culture imprints itself on our brains through the process of socialization. Investigate the insights that sociology provides—from the 19th-century founder of the discipline, Auguste Comte, to Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, and Emile Durkheim, who suggested that crime has an unappreciated positive role in society.
- Crash Course Sociology series (Streaming, Academic Video Online) Host Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both shape societies and are shaped by them.
- The History of Sociology (streaming, Academic Video Online) This program traces the history of sociology through the works of such figures as Comte, Marx, Weber, and Mead. It covers major sociological movements and features leading sociologists discussing contemporary social challenges.
- Why Sociology? (streaming, Academic Video Online) Why Sociology? examines and describes the development of sociology as a discipline, increasing awareness of self and society.
- Niall Ferguson's Networld series (streaming, Academic Video Online) In this groundbreaking new series hosted by Niall Ferguson and based on his bestselling book The Square and the Tower, Ferguson visits network theorists, social scientists and data analysts to explore the history of social networks.
- Durkheim and the Functions of Crime (streaming, Academic Video Online) It seems obvious to most people that crime and social order are opposites. But more than a century ago French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, suggested that it wasn't that simple. This film looks at the introduction of Zero Tolerance Policing in New York, the imprisonment of Dr Jack Kevorkian for assisting terminally-ill patients to die and the tragic murder in the UK of Jamie Bulger, to illustrate Durkheim's three key functions of crime. It concludes by looking at how the legacy of these ideas has been so influential in the development of criminology
- People like us : social class in America Teacher's Edition) (streaming, Academic Video Online) It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life.
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- The Annex Sociology The Annex is a podcast for academic sociologists. We discuss ideas, news, and research of interest to the academic sociology community.
- The Social Breakdown "the sociology podcast nobody wants, but everybody needs"
- Code Switch What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.
- BBC: Thinking Aloud New research on how society works
- The Sociology Show The Sociology show hosted by Matthew Wilkin conducts interviews with a range of different people within the world of Sociology.
