Research has consistently shown that a family’s social class can influence children’s introduction to sports, their continuance in participating in sports, and the types of sports to which they are exposed. This class activity provides students with an active...

There is a broad array of texts that have structured and shaped inequality in the United States in the form of legal briefs, immigration acts, and textbooks, as well as advertisements. During the course of the semester, students learn that unequal conditions today...

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...

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 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...

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....

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...

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...