This course is an introduction to methods and practices of studying how we moderns organize care in the hospital, and ultimately produce and respond to facts about the people who move through it. The aim is to ground students in the foundational ethnographic...

Recently, land or territory acknowledgements have become more common during formal events and on their websites. Students in K-12 and higher education institutions, however, may not yet be familiar with why the practice is done, much less the concept of native...

Students are often curious about the applicability of sociological theory to the “real world”. In this essay, students consider the applicability of Talcott Parsons’ sick role and Edward Suchman’s five stages of illness experience in regard to a piece of media...

Finding Our Way Out of Global Catastrophe is a semester-long project where students will show mastery at meeting the learning objectives of Introduction to Sociology through in-class presentations. For online courses, students could create blog posts or do...

The sociology of emotion and the sociology of the body are two relatively new and relatively niche specialities within the discipline, but in their combination in this course they introduce students to new ways of thinking about the links between society and the...

The activity assigns random incomes/professions to students in order for them to be able to visualize a sample distribution and understand how to interpret histograms. The first part of the activity has 9 student volunteers who visualize a simple number line in...

Ideas about age pervade popular culture, including songs. They convey “age messages” – in other words, ideas about particular ages or life stages or about the experience of growing older. The ideas are often consistent with those that are dominant in...

This assignment has been utilized in an Intro to Sociology course in an effort for students to better understand how socialization helped to shape their own self/identities. Utilizing arts-based methods, students create a PowerPoint presentation that includes...

Instructors of introductory sociology courses often find two distinctive views on “American culture” held by students:  1) A unique “American dominant culture that is shared by (almost) all members of the American society” still exists; and 2) There is no...

This reading sheet and discussion prompt assists in the goal of promoting active, student-led discussions emphasizing a deeper engagement with weekly readings based on skills taught in class (such as how to link abstract ideas from lecture to concrete examples...