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May 31, 2023

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Paul Burstein
The American Jewish Community
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This course is about the Jewish community in the United States–the many ways in which Jews met the challenge of life here. We will study Jewish migration to the U.S.; how Jews struggled to adapt Judaism to life in their new country; how they created organizations to...
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Royce A. Singleton
SOCL 266 - Sport and Society
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Socialization
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Course Description Sport and society is a course in the sociology of sport. Perhaps the most compelling reason for the sociological study of sport is its pervasiveness. Sport sociologist D. Stanley Eitzen suggests just how pervasive it is in American society (Fair...
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Steven P. Kurtz
TEACHING SEXUALITY IN A MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
A broadly multicultural student body presents unique challenges and opportunities for teaching the sociology of sexuality and homosexuality. The insights gained from my own experiences in Miami, Florida are offered in the hope that others will be encouraged to...
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Janet Lohmann
Deviance and Conformity
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Control
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This is a syllabi for a course on deviance and conformity. The course is described as follows: This course introduces students to the sociological understanding of what gets defined as rules for behavior and what it means to violate those expectations. While...
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Bill J. Grigsby
Assignment : Is All News Just News?
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
There are two ways you can do this assignment: either (1) watch TV news, or (2) read news web sites...Conclusions: What did you learn? I'm assuming you will have learned something, and that it will be based on the observations you've made in the paper. Differences...
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David Fasenfest, Heidi Gottfried
Sociology Of Work
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Marxist Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Abstract:
This course is an examination of work, its organization, and the way work and our understanding of work changed over time. The readings and class discussion will draw on Anthropology, History, Economics, Sociology and Political Science to explore the history and...
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Yvonne Vissing
Teaching Sociology of Sports in Sociology of Children Classes
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Socialization
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Summary There are a variety of other ways that one can incorporate the study sports with traditional sociological concepts in the teaching of the sociology of children and youth. Because of the interest that young people naturally have with sports, incorporation of...
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Christopher Uggen
SOC of Deviance in the Real World?
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Control
Resource Type(s):
Assessment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
my biggest fear as an instructor — the one that summons the late-night howling fantods — is that i will somehow manage to teach students nothing they can take beyond the classroom. i confronted this fear directly last month at the conclusion of my sociology of...
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Shirley Jackson
Assignment: Code of the Street: The Study of Social Problems
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This assignment asks you to discuss the concept of "respect" as it is presented in Elijah Anderson's book, Code of the Street. In taking on this assignment, you may want to review some of the concepts found in sections of the course relating to crime and family....
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Martha E. Gimenez & Brian P. Hawkins Chorbajian
Sociology of the Mass Media
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Marxist Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Simply and in a single sentence, we will examine the structure and operation of the electronic and print media in the U.S. and abroad as well as the development, operation, use and implications of new communications technologies. Structure refers to such matters as...
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