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May 31, 2023

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Miliann Kang
Negotiating Better Working Conditions for Domestic Workers
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Brief Description Students debate the merits of a domestic workers contract from four different perspectives: 1) domestic workers; 2) employers; 3) employment agencies; and 4) labor organizers and community advocates. They then role play the actual negotiation of...
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Jeylan Mortimer
Social Structure and the Life Course - SOC 8551
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This is a compilation of teaching resources on The Life Course. The life course refers to the structure and patterning of individual lives, which are always both situated yet never reducible to the constraints of those situations. No individual can be understood...
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Sue Marie Wright
ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EVENT
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Children and Youth
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Recall an event, episode or period in your own childhood that you would be willing to share without undue embarrassment or stress (e.g., adjustment to a new sibling, your kindergarten experience). Describe this event both objectively (what happened) and reflectively...
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Gail Marie McGuire
Homework: Where Were Your Clothes Made?
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Where were your clothes made? Choose a complete outfit and look at the tags to find out the country in which each article of clothing was made. Be able to locate each country on a world map (in some cases the fabric may have been made in one place, but assembled in...
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Christina M. Stern
Gendered Minds and the Power to Think:Highlighting the History of Sexism in the Sociology Classroom
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
During the long journey through graduate school, I was ridiculed by some family members for being impractical, idealistic, and selfish. Yes, selfish – for devoting my life to an esoteric quest and for spending large sums of tuition money to do so. At one point, a...
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Sara Schoonmaker
Childhood and Youth
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
In this course, we examine childhood, preadolescence and youth as distinct phases of social life constructed by young people and adults in the context of structural inequalities of age, race, class, gender, and sexuality. We critique the myth of childhood innocence...
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C. Margaret Hall
Advanced Seminar: Sociological Practice
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sociological Practice
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This advanced research seminar is built on my course, Social Intelligence in Everyday Life. Both courses are applied sociology courses, and the concept of social intelligence will be used to guide some of the class readings and discussions in Sociological Practice....
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Elizabeth Borland
WOMEN IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
In this class we will explore how socially constructed differences between men and women, viewed through the "lenses of gender," are key organizing principles in modern societies. We will use sociological theories about gender to explore women’s power and status...
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Sarah Jane Brubaker
SOCY 402: Sociological Theory
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Theory
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This course is designed to introduce you to the major traditions of sociological theory, from the classic works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the contemporary sociological perspectives that have dominated theoretical discourse in the postwar...
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Richard A. Settersten
A CRITICAL EXAMININATION OF AGE AND COHORT AND AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
Select at least 2 articles that use chronological age as a central independent variable. 1 article should use a set of age brackets; the other article should use age as a continuous variable. Your assignment is to discuss and critique the treatment of age – both...
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