Fall 2023 Highlight Videos
Class 1: Another Adventure Begins
Education Starts with a Deep Curiosity
Are Americans Really More Ignorant?
Class 2: Overcoming Awkwardness
We All Have A Complex Sociological History
Asking Hijab Wearing Woman Questions
Who Do You NOT Want To Offend?
Class 3: Dysmorphia, Status, or Artistry
Looking in a Mirror is Looking Through History
Being Comfortable In Our Skin
Thinking About Skin and Race in Korea
Class 3 & 4
Seeing a Problem from the Outside Perspective
Class 4: What's the Problem?
Getting Canceled for Saying A Filler Word
What’s the Problem with Black Hair?
Class 4 & Class 5
Class 5: Because They're Oppressed
What Do You Mean: Oppression?
The Oppressors and Outsiders
Wealth Disparities in the United States by Race
Class 6: Contours of Identity and Family
Who Makes the Borders?
Life in an Adopted Family
Life with Two Moms
Class 7: Go to the Middle
What Factors Got Them There?
What Are We Not Seeing?
Having Thoughtful Responses
What Are You Willing to Spend to Pay for Rehabilitation?
Class 8: Find Your Purpose
Visualizing Educational Inequity
Class 9: Those Black Devils
Flipping American Racial History
Are We Really Equal?
Class 10: Not Fun and Games
When a Conflict Becomes a Civil War
Conflict in Colombia
Conflict in Iraq
Questions about Conflict
Class 11: Kind of Threatening
Who Here is Uncomfortable?
Where is the “Race Conversation” at, in America?
Who Do You Imagine: Poor Americans
Class 12: Help Us Understand
Arab Male Culture
Men and Women in the Arabic World
What Do Muslims Do For Fun?
Class 13: Blinded by Choice
The Main Goal of Sociology
Committing Crime From a Sociological Perspective
The Sociology of Cheating in School
Class 14: American Whites
Defining Common Social Terms
Are You White?
What Do You See in Americans?
Class 15: Being a Man in the World
What Are "Men" In Your Culture
Toxic Masculinity
Male Aggression In Your Culture
Class 16: Unfocusing
Connected to Both Sides: Israel and Palestine
Q&A About the Israeli and Palestinian War
Empathy for Palestinians and Israelis
Class 17: More Than Two Sides
Life from a Native Perspective
Class 18: Victims and Offenders
Hope in a Hopeless Place
Transformation in Prison
Class 19: Conflict From a Human Level
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Class 20: A Live Experiment in Empathy with Basim Razzo
Introducing Basim Razzo
The Day of the Bombing
Q&A with Basim Razzo
Class 21: Heartbreak and Hope
Who Do the Police Protect, Serve, and Represent?
What Makes a Cop “Good” or “Bad?”
How Often Do Cops “Make Mistakes?”
A Conversation about Police AND Violence
Class 22: The Ways We’re Not The Same
The Name Game
Being Reserved in the East
Class 23: Being Jewish
Basics of the Jewish Culture
Basics of the Jewish Religion
Class 24: I Am a Refugee
Civilians for Peace in a War
Leaving Your Homeland
Class 25: Behind the Curtain
DEI(B) on College Campuses
Conversation about Social Justice & Affirmative Action
Trauma from Hate Speech?
Class 26: Soldiers and Cops
A Police Officer’s Perspective
A Soldier's Perspective
Class 27: The Challenge
Transgender & Transracial
BLM Movement
Class 28: Things We Do Not See
How Much Discrimination Happens?
”Proving” Discrimination
Class 29: Cultivating Empathy
Sam Reflecting on Emails From This Semester
War, Victims, Empathy and Hope
Kidnapped as a Child in Ecuador
Class 30: Wrapping Up
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