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Literary Fiction as a Tool for Teaching Social Theory and Critical Consciousness
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Weber, Christina. 2010. “Literary Fiction As a Tool for Teaching Social Theory and Critical Consciousness”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, October. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/literary-fiction-as-a-tool-for-teaching-social.

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss the possibilities that emerge from using literary fiction as a tool for teaching social theory and critical consciousness. Focusing on data from a social theory course I taught in fall 2007, along with my experiences teaching social theory, I evaluate the utility of utilizing literary fiction in the social theory classroom....

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Any Level
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