Obesity in the US: Public Issue or Personal Trouble? — a good introduction to the concept of the sociological imagination using the example of obesity
The Women’s Kingdom — this brief introduction to China’s Mosuo people (a matriarchal society) is great for a discussion of ideas of love, marriage and family. It does a nice job illustrating the extent to which an individual’s norms and worldview are shaped by their particular social and historical context. This video is also good for gender, family and culture.
