TY - JOUR AU - Winston, Fletcher PY - 2015/08/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Other Me: An Assignment to Develop the Sociological Imagination by Imagining a Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/the-other-me-an-assignment-to-develop-the SP - AB - This assignment asks introductory sociology students to create a new biography and imagine how this change in their personal profiles affects their interests, predilections, goals, and opportunities. Comparison between the personas and projected outcomes of their other me with their true selves illuminates the way social forces shape their lives and develops student understanding of the sociological imagination. This assignment is most effective as a culminating experience to more fully examine sociological concepts learned during the semester. In this manner the exercise promotes deeper learning by tying together several topics covered in an introductory sociology course and asking students to reflect upon the sociological perspective. The assignment advances the learning objectives through completion of four handouts in one class meeting and a written homework assignment that requires higher order levels of critical thinking. ER -