@article{Flockhart_Atkinson_2016, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Gravestone Assignment}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/gravestone-assignment}, abstractNote={This assignment introduces students to the historical importance of symbols in American culture by analyzing gravestones. There are four goals related to this assignment. Students will collect data from gravestone inscriptions, describe, categorize and analyze this data with particular attention to institutional and sub-institutional symbols. They will explain how symbols and inscriptions on gravestones are related to culture and the historical period in which the deceased lived. The time periods examined in this specific assignment are 1860-1929, 1930-1959 and 1960- present. However, the assignment could easily be adapted to other time periods.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Flockhart, Tyler and Atkinson, Maxine}, year={2016}, month={May} }