Research and Inquiry Skills
- Essay writing for Canadian students : with readings (Book)
- Mastering Presentations (Cloudlibrary eBook)
- Consulting Skills For Social Researchers (Hoopla eBook)
- A collection of resources, curated to support the Challenge and Change in Society course work. (Website)
Social Change
Demonstrate an understanding of the major theories, perspectives, and methodologies related to social change
- This land is their land : reports from a divided nation (Book)
- Rule makers, rule breakers : how tight and loose cultures wires our world (Book)
- Unequal relations : an introduction to race, ethnic and aboriginal dynamics in Canada (Book)
- Successful surveys : research methods and practice (Book)
- Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory: An Introduction (Kanopy eVideo)
- Understanding Social Science Research: Research Methods (YouTube)
- Social Change (Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of the causes and effects of social change
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (Book)
- Change : how to make big things happen (Book)
- The Human Swarm (Book)
- Join the club : how peer pressure can transform the world (Book)
- Power and love a theory and practice of social change (Hoopla eBook)
- The Valiant Nellie McClung : Collected Columns by Canada’s Most Famous Suffragist (CloudLibrary)
- Adam Kahane – Power and Love: A theory and practice of social change (YouTube)
Demonstrate an understanding of patterns and effects of technological change from a social science perspective
- The technology trap : capital, labor, and power in the age of automation (Book)
- Geek heresy rescuing social change from the cult of technology (Hoopla eAudiobook)
- Videocracy: How YouTube Is Changing the World (Cloudlibrary eBook)
Social Patterns and Trends
Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of demographics as a tool for studying social patterns and trends, both nationally and globally
- What’s really happening to our planet? : the facts simply explained (Book)
- Empty planet : the shock of global population decline (Book)
- Introduction to urban studies (Book)
- Fatal misconception : the struggle to control world population (Book)
- Immigration and integration in Canada in the twenty-first century (Book)
- Maximum Canada : why 35 million Canadians are not enough (Book)
- Projections of the Indigenous populations and households in Canada, 2016 to 2041(Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of how forces influence and shape social patterns and trends
- A collection of resources, curated to support the Challenge and Change in Society course work (Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of social science theories about social deviance, and of how various responses to deviance affect individuals and society.
- Peace and good order : the case for indigenous justice in Canada (Book)
- Walking with Indigenous Philosophy : Justice and Addiction Recovery. (Book)
- Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters (Book)
- Arming and disarming : a history of gun control in Canada (Book)
- Outgunned : up against the NRA : the first complete insider account of the battle over gun control (Book)
- Trends in firearm-related violent crime in Canada, 2009 to 2020 (Website)
- Government of Canada: Discrimination and hate crime statistics (Website)
- Labelling Theory (YouTube)
- Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance & Crime (YouTube)
Global Social Challenges
Demonstrate an understanding of how various social structures and conditions support or limit global inequalities
- The witches are coming (Book)
- The globalization of inequality (Book)
- Illegal people : how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants (Book)
- The human network : how your social position determines your power, beliefs, and behaviors (Book)
- The broken ladder : how inequality affects the way we think, live, and die (Book)
- Seven Fallen Feathers [electronic resource] : Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (Cloudlibrary eBook)
Assess the impact of globalization on individuals and groups
- The globalization of inequality (Book)
- Globalization (Book)
- Trade wars are class wars : how rising inequality distorts the global economy and threatens international peace (Book)
- Transnational social policies : the new development challenges of globalization (Book)
- The globalization paradox : democracy and the future of the world economy (Book)
- What is the IMF? (Website)
- The corporate capture of global governance and what we are doing about it (Website)
Analyse the impact of unfair or unjust exploitation of people or resources, locally and globally
- Room without a view a chronicle of the exploitation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon (DVD)
- Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World Of Human Trafficking (Cloudlibrary eBook)
- Why does child labour happen? (Website)
- International Labour Organization: Decent Work (Website)
- The Risks and Impacts of Expropriating Community Lands (Website)