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All TRAILS Resources
May 31, 2023

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Karam Hwang
Using The Office to Teach Goffman
April 18, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Theory
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity, Video
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Erving Goffman’s theories of symbolic interaction have the potential to appeal to students due to their immediate applicability to dissect everyday social interaction. However, contemporary students may find his writing to be less than straightforward and his...
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Tal Peretz
Feminist History in Waves Activity
April 17, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Collective Behavior/Social Movements
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
In this activity, students research and share moments of women’s history, create a timeline on the board, then work together to draw patterns out of the historical timeline, performing a basic version of historiograpy. By laying out a thorough, if haphazard, history...
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Alanna Gillis
Class School Board Debate Activity: Should Tracking Be Reformed?
April 12, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This in-class activity is designed to simulate a school board debate to allow students to understand the differing perspectives about the school tracking debate. In this activity, the students will be broken up into small groups and given an assigned role. The...
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Alanna Gillis
School Choice and Inequality: Choosing Schools Activity
April 12, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This in-class activity is designed to illustrate how school choice (i.e. charter schools and private schools) contribute to the growing inequality of schools by social class and race. In this activity, students are split into groups and are given a family profile...
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Amy Baumann Grau
Relativity of Deviance
April 8, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
A group based activity that challenges students to think about the relativity or degrees of deviance through manipulation of the context in which the deviance occurs. Students are exposed to many examples of the concept of the relativity of deviance and thus reflect...
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Liz Mount
Teaching in Unfamiliar Terrain: Empowering Student and Teacher Learning through a Photography Assignment.
March 19, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This article addresses a challenge for sociologists who teach at institutions located in unfamiliar cultural contexts through a photo elicitation project to develop students’ sociological imaginations while teaching the instructor about students’ social contexts. In...
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Bradley W. Williams
Journey into Social Activism: Qualitative Approaches.
March 19, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Social Change
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Rachel Lovis
Ways of Social Change: Making Sense of Modern Times, 2nd Edition.
March 19, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Social Change
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Victoria Story, Alexandra Hendley
Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising, 4th Ed.
March 19, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Race, Class and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Jason L. Crockett, Albert S. Hu, Joleen L. Greenwood
Integrated Sociology Program Assessment: Inclusion of a Senior Portfolio Graduation Requirement.
March 19, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Assessment, Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This article presents information about the planning, implementation, and findings of an assessmentbased student portfolio designed by the faculty of a sociology program at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, a midsized public regional liberal arts institution....
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