This video tackles the question of whether teenagers should take paid work alongside their education. Based on Steinberg et al.'s (1982) findings, this video challenges the notion that teenagers should use their free-time for financial...

This film, illustrated by the case of Susan ""Genie"" Wiley, offers a brief history of case study research and examines the strengths and limitations of the research method.

After more than 30 years working in education — from professorships at prestigious institutions, including Harvard University, UCLA and NYU, to teaching at public schools in Rhode Island and California — Pedro Noguera will join USC...

In this episode, the first in our exploration of South America, we take you to a very remote village high in the Ecuadorian Andes. We spend time on a small organic farm and get to know the people of this very special place. The local...

This film looks at how social control in the Night-Time Economy of pubs and clubs is increasingly created and maintained by professional Bouncers rather than the police.

Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes...

The video in which I explain how to get away with murder with only centuries of history, and American superstructure.

James Galbraith, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, notes that many economics institutions (especially journals and academic departments) are hierarchical and tribal by nature, and that sociology can exclude dissident views....

Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control. Labelling theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and its consequences. This film documents the rise and fall of labelling theory and...

Karl Alexander received his B.A. degree from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent spent his entire academic career at Johns Hopkins. He has been President of the...

San Francisco is famous for many things – but what you probably don’t know is that much of the city is made from ships that sank or were repurposed during the Gold Rush.

NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 19: A NEWSPAPER is giving a voice to children from Indias slums - by employing them as reporters. Translated as Voice of Children, Balaknama is run and edited by street children, many of whom are former drug...

This film gives students a broad introduction to Sociology, based around the distinction between social and sociological problems. The latter is then developed in terms of ""Sociology's core concerns"": problems of order; explaining...

Written over 25 years, Martha Moore Ballard’s diary gives us a unique perspective into the midwifery profession and the lives of women in 19th century America.

Neuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the brain creates thought and experience. Is consciousness inexplicable because it is not part of the material...

A short history of the handshake.

This film uses classic psychological studies (Loftus, Maguire, Baron-Cohen, Zimbardo) to illustrate a range of sampling techniques, issues and problems.

If you want to understand how fund managers choose a portfolio, why not ask them? That's what David Tuckett does: he draws on standard sociological techniques of interviewing to understand investors' decisions to buy or sell assets. He...

""Using examples drawn from contemporary studies (Rosenhan, Hartup, LaFrance and Mayo) this film outlines and examines different types of naturalistic observation.

The controversies surrounding abortion involve a clash between two fundamental rights: the right of the unborn child, or foetus, and the rights of the mother. This film begins with the storm created by leading case of Roe vs Wade and...

When Vincent Li murdered and then cannibalised 22 year old Tim McLean on a Greyhound Bus heading for Winnipeg, the shock waves ran through Canadian society. But when Li was found unfit to face trail and later released, shock turned to...

Sometimes practised far away from the world and sometimes in the full glare of hostile media, there are thousands of new religions. With examples, such as the Moonies, Scientology, the Missionary Church of Kopimism, Paganism and the...

This film explores some of the ways new communication technologies, such as mobile phones and surveillance software, impact on concepts of children and childhood in contemoprary societies.

"Aaron Polansky is an unorthodox leader and entertainer with a passion for life. Fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride as Aaron brings his message to life with an 'Authentricity' you've never seen, heard or felt before. Aaron...