Reel Society: An Interactive Movie is a professionally produced movie on CD-ROM designed to demonstrate the sociological imagination using actors and scenarios involving campus life. You, as the viewer, take on the role of one of the characters. You take part in key plot turns by making choices for the characters. Through it all, a wide variety of issues and perspectives (such as culture, socialization, deviance, inequality, race and ethnicity, social institutions, and social change) are addressed in order to relate major sociological concepts and theories to the students' lives.

Reel Society is a breakthrough in the use of media to teach sociology at the college level and can be the catalyst for insightful discussion and stimulating classroom involvement as a complement to a textbook.

This CD-ROM can serve as an integral companion to any introductory sociology text. The program will allow the student to interact with the concepts described in an introductory sociology course in a contextually relevant and meaningful way. Interactive quiz questions are also on the CD and an instructor's guide to using the CD-ROM is included on the CD Help file.

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Reel Society Interactive Movie is a multimedia tool that brings basic sociological concepts to life.

Reel Society: An Interactive Movie 2.0 is a two CD-ROM set that uses actors and scenarios involving life on campus, in the community, and in the family to demonstrate key topics in sociology. Your students, as the viewers, will influence key plot turns by making choices for the characters. They will explore fundamental sociological principles and issues firsthand including conflict, functionalist, and interactionist perspectives; stratification; social mobility; family; education; religion; and economic and political systems. In the process they will master course concepts more completely.

Reel Society is a breakthrough in the use of media to teach sociology at the college level. When used as a complement to a textbook, Reel Society can be the catalyst for insightful and stimulating discussion both inside and outside the classroom. “Study mode” and “Story mode” allow the student to choose the structure of a feature film to introduce topics and related concepts, or link scenes to specific topics, textbook chapters, quizzes, essay and discussion questions and homework assignments.

Reel Society 2.0 expands upon version 1.0 by including additional story lines and sociological concepts on a second CD-ROM. It also introduces new study tools for effectively integrating the use of Reel Society with any introductory sociology text book. It includes self-quizzes, a suite of Internet activities, and the ability to report back to the instructor by e-mail upon completion of assigned assessment activities. A new Instructor’s Edition provides new setup options for using Reel Society in class. An Instructor Edition with customized settings and an instructor's guide is also available (0-07-299791-5).

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ISBN: 0-07-299663-3

Executive Producer: Gene Bryan Johnson