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Random Acts of Kindness: A Teaching Tool for Positive Deviance
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Jones, Angela. 2010. “Random Acts of Kindness: A Teaching Tool for Positive Deviance”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/random-acts-of-kindness-a-teaching-tool-for.

Abstract

Instilling in students a sociological imagination while introducing them to the study of deviant behaviors, which many of them have never encountered, is a difficult task. Students inevitably seem to get caught up in the "weirdness" of certain deviant subcultures with which they are unfamiliar. In addition, they arrive with established notions of...

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

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