Social Sciences Education

This audio study guide for The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the relationship between performers and their audience, communication, and the presentation of self. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a sociological study of the ways individuals encounter each other.

This audio study guide for Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reclaiming one's true nature and cycles of life and mind. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

“A thinking mind is an active mind” they say. This book is meant for general consumption, specifically for children and teenagers between the ages of seven to 16. This book was inspired by you, yes you! And it aims at clarifying and making their minds ready for the outside world as they grow. It is an avenue for youths of these ages to put on their thinking caps and questioning spirits so they can know more about the world they live in. This book has many benefits, resources, and qualities to add to their lives, as well as impact to make in their daily lives.

This audio study guide for Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as oppression, class struggle, and the dialectical interpretation of history. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as nationalism, print capitalism, imperialism, and post-colonialism.

The liberal arts university has been in decline since well before the virtualization of campus life, increasingly inviting public skepticism about its viability as an institution of personal, civ­ic, and professional growth. New technologies that might have brought people together have instead frustrated the university’s capacity to foster thoughtful citizenship among tomorrow’s lead­ers and exacerbated socioeconomic inequalities that are poison­ing America’s civic culture.

This audio study guide for Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as lacking meaning in one’s life, faith, and human decency. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Our CLEP study guides are different! The Social Sciences and History CLEP Test Study Guide teaches you what you need to know to pass the CLEP test. This study guide is more than just sample test questions. Our easy to understand study guide will teach you the information.

This audio study guide for The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as myth and the unconscious, the enlightened hero and the oneness of all things, and the cyclical nature of stories.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works. This audio study guide for Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as gender as performance, feminism, and queer theory.

A controversial best seller, American Dirt, combines elements of a commercial thriller, literary fiction, suspense, and romance. The title refers to the land comprising the geopolitical entity that is the United States of America, and to the contempt undocumented migrants face both before and after crossing the US-Mexico border.

This audio study guide for The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reparations for American slavery, white supremacy in the United States, and racial discrimination by the United States government. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Do you have students who need extra social and emotional help? Do you want to reach Black, Brown, and other traumatized students living in poverty? Do you want to inspire your most underperforming students to succeed in school? Manny Scott teaches you 40 secrets - principles and strategies - to reach, teach, and empower even your most underperforming students in a diverse, digital world.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the failure of democracy, the rise of tyranny, and the anti-democratic practices of an American president. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the intersection of racism and science and segregationism, assimilationism, and antiracism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Forest People by Colin N. Turnbull includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as village life versus forest life, community, and religion. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Separate Pasts by Melton A. McLaurin includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the effects of segregation on Southern society and the power of human connection to create social change. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Circe by Madeline Miller includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the nature and power of victory and misogyny and female suffering. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as positivity, simplicity, and inner nature. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

À la croisée des chemins entre philosophie et réalisme politique, Luc Ferry nous ouvre le monde de l'histoire et des enjeux de l'éducation. Pour penser le présent, la réflexion remonte aux débats hérités de la Grèce antique, de la tradition chrétienne et de Mai 68. Nous abordons les enjeux pédagogiques profonds : Quelle place donner au travail dans l'éducation ? L'école doit elle aider les enfants à devenir eux-mêmes ou à devenir autre ? L'approche unique de Luc Ferry, philosophe et ancien Ministre de l'Éducation nationale, révèle toute la problématique au cœur de chaque société : quels projets pour la jeunesse, quel avenir pour notre pays ?