Recommended Videos
Chapter 1
We need to communicate with one another. Sometimes we do not—when this happens we have a failure to communicate. The following is a clip that has been shown to numerous classes about this “failure to communicate”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o
Chapter 2
The following is a link to a documentary about the Stanford Prison Experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_LKzEqlPto
Chapter 3
Empiricism explained by Stephen Fry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPFb0Nyme8
Chapter 4
Hermeneutics explained in a fun cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH8tmMaPiNc
The Muppets, also, in a silly video explain phenomenology, or, well, they kind of do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGAxMo-kiw
Chapter 5
A good overview of research paradigm terminology with a focus on the critical perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvpxBVCo0c
A lengthier discussion on the critical paradigm in the 21st century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjfISwCLFrU
Chapter 6
A video explaining peer review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twogpmM-SfY
Chapter 7
A video from the New York Times about the central limit theorem that uses rabbits as the examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvoxEYmQHNM
Chapter 8
A short video looking at reliability versus validity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epWvQvTtVUA
Chapter 9
A video about how to develop a research question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga7w-czB7lo
Also, here is a video on what a null hypothesis is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDmCFVQvv2A
Chapter 10
Here are six links to the work of Margaret Mead and her work in Samoa. This is a classic example of ethnographic work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOa3ftAKnzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HNzhV0CjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdaW1kZOaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDLyQb5Pd3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQnfbAEg_uQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdTDbUIeKk
Chapter 11
Interview with Clifford Geertz, parts 1 and 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQDx3axrDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FftV-XGV0
Chapter 12
Funny focus-group videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwgQ0BMfqj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZZZ46D6vM
Chapter 13
The following video shows the qualities of a good qualitative researcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkrVaY_KjA
Chapter 14
Watch one of the following videos and do a qualitative or quantitative analysis of gender roles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-57zKcmrT6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nIXUjzyMe0
Chapter 15
Video that explains survey research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1PnYFaFlSY
Chapter 16
Straightforward video on mean, median, and mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMaIREesP7Y
Video about skewness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be6H0gcCYD0
Chapter 17
This video is a short clip that helps show students which test they could use out of the many tests available to them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulIUAN0U3w
Chapter 18
Based on what you have read, is this a “true” experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ
Chapter 19
This is a video about rhetoric and rhetoric appeals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODwmSYb3Tw
This is a video about pathos, ethos, and logos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAsxyffBqm0
Chapter 20
A clip from Chomsky critiquing postmodernism, feminism, and Marxism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNJX64cBOE
Derrida defining deconstructionism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgwOjjoYtco