Keywords
Family
Political Economy
Public Policy
Social Change
Political Economy
Public Policy
Social Change
How to Cite
Arabandi, Bhavani, Stephen Sweet, and Alicia Swords. 2014. “Testing the Flat World Thesis: Using A Public Dataset to Engage Students in the Global Inequality Debate”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, October. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/testing-the-flat-world-thesis-using-a-public.
Abstract
We present a learning module to engage students in the global inequality debate using Google Public Data World Development Indicators. Goals of this article are to articulate the importance and urgency of teaching global issues to American students; situate the central debate in the globalization literature, paying particular attention to global...Download this resource to see full details. Download this resource to see full details.
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- Assignment
- Class Level(s):
- Any Level
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