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May 31, 2023

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Rena Zito
"Why Don't They Just Leave?": An Immersive Role-Playing Activity on Intimate Partner Violence
March 9, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
This in-class activity requires students to take on the role of an individual making decisions about whether to stay or leave an abusive relationship. It is designed to demonstrate the constrained choices that complicate leaving decisions, thereby addressing a common...
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Asma H. Malkawi
Sociological Imagination: Arabic Head Dress, "Shemagh" as a cultural object.
February 7, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
This activity aims to introduce the first-year sociology students to the Sociological Imagination as a method of thinking and as an analytical tool. Students will understand how an ethnic cultural dress exists and how it is intersects with one’s biography and...
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Jenna Ann Lamphere
Best Practices: From Research Problem to Survey Administration
February 6, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
With this assignment, students practice best practices in writing good survey questions, designing an attractive web-based questionnaire, and administering the survey. Students write survey questions for a pre-defined research problem, design an attractive...
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Keith D. Wilkins
Culture Through Everyday Objects
January 12, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Lecture
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:
Culture Through Everyday Objects is a PowerPoint lecture adaptation of Stephanie Medley-Rath’s class activity "Objects From Everyday Life: A Can of Coca-Cola." This lecture integrates Medley-Rath’s class activity into a broader conversation about culture, and aligns...
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Matthew Ward
Sociological Theory Syllabus
January 12, 2018
Subject Area(s):
Theory
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:
This course teaches students about key theoretical traditions within sociology, as well as the philosophies of social science underlying these perspectives, including Positivism and Interpretivism. The course relies on a variety of primary and secondary texts,...
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Jamie Oslawski-Lopez, Amanda Miller
Integrating a Collaborative Survey Research Project
December 28, 2017
Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This activity integrates undergraduate and graduate Sociology students enrolled in different research methods courses through a semester-long, collaborative research project surveying a campus event. Although collaborative projects are not the norm in most American...
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Reginald A Byron
Teaching About Police Violence with Open Source Police Shootings Data and Census Data
December 28, 2017
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
Given a larger push for developing quantitative literacy among undergraduates, the field of sociology has recently advocated that professors integrate data analysis and mathematical skills into their substantive courses (Howry and Rodriguez 2006; Wilder 2009). This...
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Kenneth Richard Hanson
Facebook Media Conglomerate
December 14, 2017
Subject Area(s):
Communication and Information Technologies
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This resource is a visual chart that illustrates the various holdings that Facebook has in different companies using each company's respective logo. By visualizing Facebook's corporate holdings, instructors are able to demonstrate how Facebook is becoming a social...
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Debjani Chakravarty
Sociology of the Internet and Identities
December 14, 2017
Subject Area(s):
Communication and Information Technologies
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This is a syllabus for a sociology course on new media and how it reshapes identities and societies. Ever since the internet became a domesticated technology through the creation of the World Wide Web in 1991, it started restructuring social institutions,...
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Amanda Jayne Miller
Fake News: Media Representations of "Truth"
December 14, 2017
Subject Area(s):
Communication and Information Technologies
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
Since the 2016 election, calls of "fake news" have been abundant. At times, this literally does refer to fabricated stories. However, "fake news" might also refer to stories in which some relevant information is omitted or highlighted in order to give the story a...
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