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21st Century Health  Challenges & Inequities: Own It! Handbook - the Own Your History®  Collection
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The Own It! Handbooks are guide books for a transformative after-school, trauma-informed enrichment program. The 21st Century Health  Challenges & Inequities handbook provides  lessons & activities about essential elements of the American health and healthcare system. In 2020, the strengths and weaknesses of American health care were brought powerfully into each home by  the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Like  prior 20th century health crises --the 1918 flu, polio,   AIDS -- COVID-19 represented a fundamental challenge to all Americsans. This Handbook seeks to help us better understand how our healthcare systems can better serve the American people.Own It! also nurtures academic skills, personal growth and leadership. It uses history to connect our past to our future, as part of the Own Your History® (OYH) Collection. But Own It! is not “school” and it differs from traditional approaches to history.  

Subject:
Health, Medicine and Nursing
History, Law, Politics
U.S. History
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Author:
Robert Eager
Date Added:
08/22/2024
American Dream: Using Storytelling to Explore Social Class in the United States
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This course explores the experiences and understandings of class among Americans positioned at different points along the U.S. social spectrum. It considers a variety of classic frameworks for analyzing social class and uses memoirs, novels, and ethnographies to gain a sense of how class is experienced in daily life and how it intersects with other forms of social difference such as race and gender.

Subject:
Anthropology
Social Science
Sociology
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Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Walley, Christine
Date Added:
02/01/2018
The American Dream and Social Stratification Lesson Unit
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Students who migrated to the USA from Mexico or any other country when they were kids are the learner audience. However, this lesson series can be adapted for other types of learners. Each lesson will take up to 30 minutes. The topic of lesson #1 is social stratification and the American dream. The students will learn about these two concepts. The goals of lesson #2 are to learn how to create charts and graphs in a PowerPoint after collecting data through interviews and compare/ contrast results with National Survey 2005 NY Times. Lesson #3’s topic is about race as ascribed characteristics and its influence on social mobility. Students will integrate and evaluate information they collected and present their own ideas in discussions. Lesson #4’s topic is how gender can affect people’s ability to climb the economic ladder. During lesson #5 students will present their findings in class and reflect on their experience learning about the topic of the American dream and whether it is achievable or not.

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English Language Arts
Social Science
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Lecture
Date Added:
05/10/2016
Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
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By analyzing Dear Abby's rant about bad grammar usage, students become aware that attitudes about race, social class, moral and ethical character, and "proper" language use are intertwined.

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Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
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Activity/Lab
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Provider:
ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
09/25/2013
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
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Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.

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English Language Arts
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
09/28/2013
European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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From pineapples grown in Hawaii to English-speaking call centers outsourced to India, the legacy of the “Age of Imperialism” appears everywhere in our modern world. This class explores the history of European imperialism in its political, economic, and cultural dimensions from the 1840s through the 1960s.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
Philosophy
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ciarlo, David
Date Added:
02/01/2006
Great Writers Inspire: 18th Century Labouring-class Writing
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In 1758, Samuel Johnson noted that the itch of scribbling had seized the nation. 'The rage of writing has seized the old and young' across all segments of society, he observed, so that now 'the cook warbles her lyrics in the kitchen, and the thrasher vociferates his heroics in the barn.' Johnson's observation drew attention to an important development in the eighteenth century literary world: the emergence of the labouring class writer. Over the course of the century increasing numbers of agricultural labourers, household servants, bricklayers, shoemakers, milkmaids, soldiers and sailors not only tool up writing, but also published their work, and, in some cases, made a significant impact on contemporary literary culture. This collection of resources looks at these writers.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Diagram/Illustration
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Provider:
University of Oxford
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Great Writers Inspire
Author:
Jennifer Batt
Date Added:
02/12/2013
Great Writers Inspire: Economic and Social Literary Criticism
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This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about economic and social literary criticism. The 'Economic and Social Literary Criticism' essay introduces a series of topics and questions and gives examples of resources to explore. It is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Material Type:
Lecture
Reading
Provider:
University of Oxford
Provider Set:
Great Writers Inspire
Author:
Emma Smith
Jennifer Batt
Kate O'Connor
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Date Added:
02/12/2013
Intercultural Communication
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Intercultural Communication examines culture as a variable in interpersonal and collective communication. It explores the opportunities and problems arising from similarities and differences in communication patterns, processes, and codes among various cultural groups. It explores cultural universals, social categorization, stereotyping and discrimination, with a focus on topics including race, ethnicity, social class, religion, gender and sexuality as they relate to communication.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Communication
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Missouri St. Louis
Author:
Shannon Ahrndt
Date Added:
12/07/2020
Introduction to Sociology 2e
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Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories, which are supported by a wealth of engaging learning materials. The textbook presents detailed section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. The second edition retains the book’s conceptual organization, aligning to most courses, and has been significantly updated to reflect the latest research and provide examples most relevant to today’s students. In order to help instructors transition to the revised version, the 2e changes are described within the preface.

Subject:
Social Science
Sociology
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Full Course
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
OpenStax College
Date Added:
02/01/2012
Law and Society
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Law is a common and yet distinct aspect of everyday life in modern societies. This course examines the central features of law as a social institution and as a feature of popular culture. We will explore the nature of law as a set of social systems, central actors in the systems, legal reasoning, and the relationship of the legal form and reasoning to social change. The course emphasizes the relationship between the internal logic of legal devices and economic, political and social processes. Emphasis is placed upon developing a perspective which views law as a practical resource, a mechanism for handling the widest range of unspecified social issues, problems, and conflicts, and at the same time, as a set of shared representations and aspirations.
We will explore the range of experiences of law for its ministers (lawyers, judges, law enforcement agents and administrators) as well as for its supplicants (citizens, plaintiffs, defendants). We will examine how law is mobilized and deployed by professionals and ordinary citizens. We cannot cover all aspects of the legal system, nor focus on all the different actors. A set of topics has been selected to develop understanding of the situational and systemic demands within which actors in the legal system operate and perform their roles; at the same time, we will try to discover systematic patterns in the uses and consequences of law. Throughout the course there is concern for understanding what we mean by legality and the rule of law.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Silbey, Susan
Date Added:
02/01/2003
Module 5: Stratification- U.S. and Global Inequality
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Textbook, slides, and class activities related to social stratification and global inequality. Primary text: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e

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Sociology
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Module
Author:
India Stewart
Date Added:
06/01/2019
SOC101 - Unit 7 - Stratification and Social Mobility in the United States
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Unit 7 – Stratification and Social Mobility in the United StatesChapter 9 – pages 185 – 201Define “Stratification.”Open versus closed stratification.  Is the stratification system in the United States open or closed? Is there social mobility in the United States?Social classes in the United States: upper, middle and lower class.  What is the social stratification of your family tree?  Has your family’s intergenerational social class altered?Watch: Wealth Inequality in America - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM4.      Theoretical Perspectives on Social StratificationRead: Chapter 8.2 “Explaining Stratification” - http://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/8-2-explaining-stratification/ 

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Sociology
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Module
Author:
Annemarie Roscello
Date Added:
05/04/2017
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
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The founders of sociology in the United States wanted to make a difference. A central aim of the sociologists of the Chicago school was to use sociological knowledge to achieve social reform. A related aim of sociologists like Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett and others since was to use sociological knowledge to understand and alleviate gender, racial, and class inequality.

Steve Barkan’s Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World makes sociology relevant for today’s students by balancing traditional coverage with a fresh approach that takes them back to sociology’s American roots in the use of sociological knowledge for social reform.

Print on demand edition available here: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469659282/sociology/

Subject:
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Minnesota
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Author:
Steve Barkan
Date Added:
02/20/2015
Wants Versus Needs
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It happens in almost every classroom community: Someone has something someone else wants. Someone has the hottest new video game, sneakers or action figure; someone else feels jealous and expresses these feelings in unproductive ways. Issues of class and materialism underlie these interactions, and children often lack ways to talk productively and openly about what is really going on.

The lessons that follow will start a conversation about material consumption. We will explore why we want the things we want, how it feels not to have everything we want, and how to appreciate non-material possessions that can make us rich in deeper ways. In the upper elementary grades, children will also be encouraged to think critically about media messages and will have an opportunity to engage in a social action project aimed at minimizing materialism and entitlement.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Provider Set:
Learning for Justice
Date Added:
12/02/2016
What is Capitalism?
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This course introduces academic debates on the nature of capitalism, drawing upon the ideas of scholars as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. It examines anthropological studies of how contemporary capitalism plays out in people’s daily lives in a range of geographic and social settings, and implications for how we understand capitalism today. Settings range from Wall Street investment banks to auto assembly plants, from family businesses to consumer shopping malls.

Subject:
Anthropology
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Walley, Christine
Date Added:
09/01/2021