Race and Ethnicity Shows the difference between prejudice, discrimination and racism using historical and current examples. Explores the effects of prejudice and discrimination through the eyes of Asian, Hispanic and African American families. Family Examines the family as a resilient institutions adapting its structure and functions to social change. Shows a variety of family forms including a nuclear family, a single parent family, a homosexual family and a family dealing with dysfunction. Examines how they deal with stresses and difficulties.
Religion Explores the various functions of religion using several major religions.
Shows how religion reflects society, and how it is involved with social change and social conflict. Illustrates how people can gain power and change governments. Social Change Shows the inevitability of social change and presents social change as a historical process as well as an on-going process affecting our lives now and in the future, examining social changes occurring on different levels of social organization.