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Creating the Sociological Imagination on the First Day of Class: The Social Construction of Deviance
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Brouillette, John, and Ronny Turner. 2010. “Creating the Sociological Imagination on the First Day of Class: The Social Construction of Deviance”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/creating-the-sociological-imagination-on-the-first.

Abstract

The first day of class is crucial in setting the tone for the rest of the semester (Dorn 1987; Riffer 1983; Weimer 1989). This paper describes an exercise that we use on the first day of our courses in the sociology of deviance and in introductory sociology. Four objectives are sought in the initial meeting. The first two are the answers to two questions...

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Subject Area(s):
Social Control
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity, Essay
Class Level(s):
College 200

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