Class #1
Who is Sam Richards? What is SOC 119?
The First Case Study: Pick a Representative
Class #2
The Complexities of Representation
Why Representation Matters
Class #3
Today's College Students Are All Snowflakes
Performative Questions & Managing Impressions
Class #4: Not Fun and Games
When a Conflict Becomes a Civil War
Conflict in Colombia
Conflict in Iraq
Questions and Answers about Conflict
Class #5: Shading White
Perspectives of Being Mixed in America
Explaining White Privilege
Class #6: Shades of White
White America Viewed Globally
Student’s Experience With White People
What Have You Learned From White People (Pt.1)
What Have You Learned From White People (Pt. 2)
Class #7: An Impossible Balance
Understanding Human Behavior
Skin Pigmentation
Class #8: Teaching Our Way to Justice
Teaching For America
Inequalities of Schools
SAT Test Scores
Will’s Obstacles and Questions
Class #9: Playing Favorites
Code of Conduct
God’s Playing Favorites
Afghanistan and Women’s Rights
When Did You Start Wearing a Hijab?
Class #10: Not Looking Back
Making Assumptions
Managing Truths
Women in Islam
We Need Better Education System
Class #11:The Complexities Of A Cause
Household Income By Race
Outside Of Your Control Pt.1
Outside Of Your Control Pt. 2
What Are We Missing?
Class #12: Building on a Future
Birth Rates By Race
Investment and Annual Returns By Race
Pre and Post 1865
Economic Class Background
Class #13: Keeping Up with Koreans
A Contrast of Korea
Education System in Korea
The Suneung Test
Community Centered and Religion
Class #14: Men In The World
What Are “Men” From Your Culture?
Toxic Masculinity
Male Aggression In Your Culture
Class #15: What We Choose to See
Making the argument for Indigenous People’s Day
Making the argument for Columbus Day
Class #16: Grouping Ourselves
Race Typology
Human Evolution
Morphology of Africa
Skin Pigmentation
Class #17: The Needy Penis Lecture (A Classic #SOC119 Lecture)
What is Sex like in Our Culture?
What Would Sex be Like in a Female-Centered World?
Where Do We Learn About Sex?
Female Supremacy
Class #18: A Live Experiment in Empathy w/ Basim Razzo (A Classic #SOC119 Lecture)
Introducing Basim Razzo
The Day of the Bombing
Q&A with Basim Razzo
Class #19: How the Rich Live
We Are the 1%
Making Sense of the Randomness of Life
Wrestling with Modern Day Slavery
Class #20: A Sociology of Police Violence
Who Are The Police?
A Real Look At Policing
When Police Are “Bad Apples”
Class #21: Guns and Crime
Crime Where You Live
Gun Ownership in Other Countries
Policies in Other Countries
Gun Control in America
Class 22: The Logic of Affirmative Action
What is Affirmative Action? What Is Fair?
Diversity is Always Good… Right?
The Importance of Being on Top
How Do You Make A Fair Economic System?
Class 23: Choosing Our Leaders
A Korean Tragedy
Voting Internationally
Questions about Voting
Class 24: Put a Face to the Issue
Former Lifer’s Views on Criminal Justice
Are Criminals Able to Change?
Asking a Convicted Murderer Questions about Prison
Class 25: Disrupting our Thinking
We Are The 1% in the World
Climate Refugees will Surpass 1 Billion
We Need Refugees, Refugees Need Us
A Conversation with an Afghani Refugee
Class 26: Learning by Experience
The Dating Game In Sign Language
Dating A CODA
Connection And Communication
Class 27: The Limits of Cultural Relativism
FIFA and Qatar
Taboo Topics in the Middle East
LGBT Issues in Middle East
Harsh Working Conditions
Class 28: Freedom to Speak...and Think
Hate Speech on College Campuses
Students Control (Almost) Everything
Questions for VP of Student Affairs at PSU
Class 29: It's All Interconnected
Extremist Groups, Free Speech, and Protesting
Responding to Kanye "Ye" West and Anti-Semitism
A Conversation on Trans Issues, TERFS, and The Binary
Class 30: Q and A with Sam Richards
How Do You Have a Successful Marriage?
Responding to SOC 119 History
Favorite International Experiences