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All TRAILS Resources
May 31, 2023

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Stephen Sweet, Kimberly Baker
Who Has the Advantages in My Intended Career?: Engaging Students in the Identification of Gender and Racial Inequalities
January 19, 2011
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This article describes and assesses two learning modules designed to make students aware of gender and racial inequalities present in their own intended careers. Students identify their intended occupation in respect to the Standard Occupational Classification system...
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Joy Crissey Honea
Book Review: A Good Book, In Theory
January 19, 2011
Subject Area(s):
Theory
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Joseph Simpson, Vicky Elias
Choices and Chances: The Sociology Role-playing Game- The Sociological Imagination in Practice
January 19, 2011
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
This article introduces a sociology role-playing game (RPG) used to demonstrate the broad range of social forces, institutions, and structures in a semester-long series of in-class and homework assignments. RPGs and other simulation games have been frequently...
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Bruce Friesen
Book Review: Making Sense of Social Theory: A Practical Introduction
January 19, 2011
Subject Area(s):
Theory
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Denise Copelton
Film Review: Eating Alaska
January 19, 2011
Subject Area(s):
Environmental Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Film List
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Edward F. Vacha
Qualitative Field Methods Project
November 15, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
The main goal of this project is to give you experience with inductive research—conducting research to generate a hypothesis. The group will select a setting, social situation, or group, and attempt to generate one or more grounded hypotheses that could, in...
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Martha A. Easton
Norms, Deviance, and Social Control
November 15, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Control
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
There is a great pressure in our society to be normal, and this course looks at how ideas of normal are created and defined. This course also looks at how norms are enforced, and what happens to people who violate norms. We examine different theories of deviance,...
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Edward L. Kain
Migration and the City of London
November 15, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Demography
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This assignment has students read about the history of migration in London, using information provided at a website. After reading about historical patterns, they choose one cultural group and apply theories of migration to this case study.
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Martha A Easton
Social Class Autobiographies and the College Experience
November 15, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Race, Class and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This assignment asks students to write autobiographies of their college experiences through the lens of their own social class. This assignment helps make the lived experience of social class visible to students in a way that most students can easily access. This...
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Eric Margolis
Making the Invisible Visible Photographing the Hidden Curricula In Higher Education: A Field Assignment
October 28, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Visual Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
You are inviited to use still cameras to document and examine the hidden curricular elements of ASU school life for instance: 1) peer culture, clubs and cliques, etc. 2) the formal and informal systems that serve to reinforce gender, race, ethnicity, sexual...
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