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

Which Donor Are You Picking?

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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