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May 31, 2023

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Edythe Krampe
Course Paper: Classroom/Educational Setting Field Observation
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
Develop two or three paragraphs where you identify (1) the independent variable (social class, ethnicity, gender, or age: regular vs. honors class {"ability" differences], special education vs. regular class, ESL vs. regular class you wish to study; (2) the three...
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Simon Gottschalk
Qualitative Methodology
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Qualitative Methodology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
The natural science method of hypothesis generation, data collection/analysis, and theory development is both limiting and, as the sole way of understanding human behavior, wrong (Gusfield 2003). By reducing quality to quantity, Bourgois morality economizes on...
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Daniel Thomas Cook
Teaching Consumption Studies Against the Grain: An Uncommon but Hopefully Useful Account
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
When I took a position in the Department of Advertising at the University of Illinois, I understood that my "job" was to be the sociologist on staff who would contribute in that capacity to a liberal arts based curriculum. Having never taken a course in the sociology...
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Jeanne Ballantine
Models for Teaching Applied and Practice Courses
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Abstract:
Applied/practice courses have been springing up like wildflowers over the past 10 years. The stimulus is, in part, related to enrollments in sociology departments and job placements upon graduation. Enrollments in sociology courses and sociology majors were on a...
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Pamela Aronson
Observation Assignment: SOC 497: Senior Research Seminar
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Qualitative Methodology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
In your literature review and research proposal, you came up with a topic of your own on the general theme of the transition to adulthood. Now it is time to study that topic directly. Keeping in mind everything we have read and discussed about how to conduct...
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Donna King
SOC303: Popular Culture
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
In the first half of this course we will study the social significance of popular culture with special emphasis on corporations and the commercialization of culture.
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Chrisy Moutsatsos
Woman And The Body
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
The goal of this course is to make visible to students the multiple relationships between the female body, culture, and society. We will begin by problematizing the concept of the "body," and the specific ways in which the female body has come to be known...
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Robert F. Lovely
Technique 2: Development of Sociology and the Intellectual, Industrial and French Revolutions
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Abstract:
Teaching Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes: To capture the turmoil of the 18th and 19th centuries through paintings; to give students a feeling of revolution and change that prompted a science of society; and to provide a background for Durkheim, Weber, Marx,...
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E.H. Epstein
Debates
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
Each student will be expected to participate in three debates during the semester. Each debate will represent 20 percent of the student’s grade. The debates will be presented orally to the class and as written documents. They will be evaluated largely on written...
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Lori McNeil
Methods of Sociological Research
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Qualitative Methodology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Course Objective: To provide an introduction to basic sociological methods including exposure to the most common qualitative and quantitative methodological designs. Through lectures, exams, in-class exercises, experiments and activities, class discussions, the...
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