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TRAILS, the Teaching Resources and Innovation Library for Sociology, provides a way for you to easily locate peer-reviewed teaching materials, showcase your teaching ideas, develop professionally, and join a community of scholarly teachers. You will find great assignments, syllabi, lectures, and other teaching ideas at TRAILS. Please also consider submitting your great ideas for teaching. The Featured Resources include some of the newest additions to our collection.

-Stephanie Medley-Rath
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Featured Resources

An arial view of suburban neighborhoods
Elizabeth Klainot-Hess
Class Activity: Analyzing Residential Racial Segregation Using Census Data and an Interactive Map
July 8, 2025
Subject Area(s):
Demography, Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems, Public Policy, Race, Class and Gender, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Social Change, Urban Sociology, Visual Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100, College 200, College 300
Class Size(s):
Medium, Small
Abstract:

In this classroom activity students will use an interactive map based on 2020 Census data to identify and analyze residential racial segregation across the United States.  Using the black-white dissimilarity index, students will describe and analyze residential...

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A collection of yellow items, including a bag, sweater, lamp, frame, gnome, and yarn
Marion Cassard
Situated Knowledge: Moving Beyond the Objectivity/Subjectivity Binary
April 23, 2025
Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology, Ethnography, Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems, Knowledge, Qualitative Methodology, Race, Class and Gender, Research Methods, Social Change, Sociological Practice, Theory
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100, College 200, College 300
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:

This activity provides students with a hands-on experience of situated knowledge, demonstrating how knowledge is shaped by perspective and positionality rather than fitting neatly into the objectivity/subjectivity binary. Using physical barriers...

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A group of students around a table with computers at a workshop
Bailey Brown, Amber
Interdisciplinary Methods Exchange: A Joint-Class Guest Speaker Workshop
April 23, 2025
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses, Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Research Methods, Statistics
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity, Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200, College 300, College 400
Class Size(s):
Large, Medium
Abstract:

This workshop brings scholars in the social sciences together for a 10-week “Interdisciplinary Research Methods Exchange.” Scholars speak to a group of social science undergraduate majors about their current and prior research, highlighting their background,...

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