This in-class activity focuses on a central discussion that helps students apply concepts involving structural inequality, personal responsibility and agency, and the function of the judicial system.  This exercise is best suited to a sociology or law &...

“The Social Construction of Money” is a brief classroom activity for undergraduate Sociology courses that offers a theatric opportunity for instructors to initiate a class discussion about social constructs (and processes of social construction) using the topic of...

This teaching technique introduces students to inequality and related terms.  Students are given different colored beanbags and then all stand equally around a target (i.e., sheet with a bullseye). Students are asked to predict how close they will get to the...

Sociology is the study of groups, society, and social interaction. It addresses issues like race, class, gender, and much more. One of the best ways to learn about these concepts and practice using your sociological imagination is through stories. Games allow us...

This activity provides students with an introduction to sociologist Orlando Patterson’s theory of social death and historian Saidiya Hartman’s (2008) analytic of the afterlife of slavery to identify social problems impacting Black Americans....

This activity was created by William A. Gamson to teach about collective action frames including the importance of producing a sense of moral indignation, fostering a sense of agency, and producing a sense of "we." It was also designed to encourage people to think...

This learning group activity was created by William A. Gamson for teaching about media frames. 

This is an in-class group activity to help students understand and apply the Stress Process Model (Turner 2010), often taught in Medical Sociology courses. It also serves to build empathy through discussion and narrative-building by encouraging students to imagine...

Codification of observed activity and physical data is a valuable skill for any emergent social scientist; one method to achieve this is data-driven community mapping. However, mapping as a method can often be overwhelming and challenging to students who have so...

Monopoly simulations are widely used in sociology classrooms to illustrate social inequality. These simulations have been critiqued as being one-dimensional and focusing too much on social class. Alternatively, scholars have developed Monopoly simulations that...