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Segregation Through the Lens of Housing Unit Transition

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Overview:: This resource is a video of a PowerPoint presentation. "Segregation Through the Lens of Housing Unit Transition: What Roles do the Prior Residents, the Local Micro-Neighborhood, and the Broader Neighborhood Play?" A Department of Sociology Talk from the Population, Society and Inequality Series, delivered by Professor John Hipp, Department of Criminology, Law & Society on May 25, 2010. It would be useful for a narrow group of upper division or graduate sociology students specializing in racial segregation and housing.
Type of Material:: Embeded YouTube video of a PowerPoint presentation.
Recommended Uses:: Homework for a seminar on segregation and housing.
Technical Requirements:: Use of high speed internet and a browser to get to the URL.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: The purpose is to illustrate a demographic survey. This includes the method of investigation, sampling, data analysis, tentative conclusions and areas for further investigation.
Target Student Population:: This could be used with college or graduate students as a case example of a research design. the students may also get an idea as to how theory is applied and how the data can inform the tentative conclusions.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Students should have a basic knowledge of sociological research, research design, sampling, survey design , and the analysis of the data leading to conclusions.

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Strengths:: This is a free video lecture demonstrating a research study in the field. The study is relevant and pertinent to the study of population demographics, stratification, and discrimination in housing developments.
Concerns:: The lecture was delivered in 2010. The results were tentative and now somewhat dated. As a teaching device, it is a research case example. There is no interaction or method of evaluating learning.

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Strengths:: This is a real case study done by a seasoned researcher about a relevant topic.
Concerns:: There are no learning objectives identified. This would have to come from the context of a course students are taking. There is no challenge to produce learning on the webpage. This would also have to come from the course. Various theories are reviewed with regards to the research question. There is no reference to where the students can learn about the theories, so it would be easy for students to get lost because they do not have a basic understanding of these theories.

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Strengths:: The video is a clear recording. There is a PowerPoint and the presenter follows the outline. The audience actively contributes clarifications and examples. The audio track would be useful to students who are visually impaired.
Concerns:: There is only the passive viewing of the video. Since it goes for one hour, it is likely many students will get bored and not pick up on much of the material.Beyond the lecture, there is no other visual activation. This is not friendly to persons who have audio disabilities. There are no captions or transcript.

Other Issues and Comments:: This webpage is limited in its scope of teaching applications. The material is getting older and more recent studies can be found. As a teaching device, it is limited.
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