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All TRAILS Resources
May 31, 2023

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Carol Wickersham, Charles Westerberg, Karen Jones
Pivot Points: Direct Measures of the Content and Process of Community-based Learning
January 1, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Internship/Service Learning
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Large
Abstract:
This research is an initial investigation into the ways community-based learning increase the cognitive skills central to the exercise of the sociological imagination. In addition to identifying a means to reveal that learning had occurred, we looked for evidence...
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Sadie Pendaz
Film Review: A Dangerous Game
January 1, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Political Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Film List
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Carol J Auster
Blended Learning as a Potentially Winning Combination of Face-toface and Online Learning
January 1, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Blended learning, in the form of screencasts to be viewed online outside of class, was incorporated into three sections of an introductory sociology course in a liberal arts college setting. The screencasts were used to introduce concepts and theories to provide more...
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Linda J. Henderson
Book Review: Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education and Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education
January 1, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Jenny Folsom
Book Review: The Politics of Consolation: Meaning and the Memory of September 11
January 1, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Comparative Sociology/Historical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Lisa Stampnitzky
Film Review: Torture: Made in the USA
January 1, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Film List
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
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Anthony Jack Knowles
Globalization and World Systems Theory: An Introduction
December 21, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Environmental Sociology
Resource Type(s):
PowerPoint
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Understanding the social world from a global perspective is becoming increasingly important for sociologists. World Systems Theory is a useful framework for explaining some of the macro level dynamics occurring around the globe. However, undergraduate sociology...
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Gregory Trainor Kordsmeier, Cameron Macdonald
Applying Theory to Current Events
December 17, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Theory
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This assignment is a final cumulative paper that evaluates how well students in an undergraduate theory class can describe basic theoretical concepts and then apply these ideas to a contemporary social issue or event. We offer two similar takes on the same basic...
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Nasra Abubakar
The Relationship between Feminism and Social Norms
December 6, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Social Change
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This class activity is meant to help clarify feminism and feminist theory by relating them to social norms. Feminism is the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. It also involves recognizing and critiquing male supremacy combined with...
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Amanda Kennedy
Facts in Fiction: Using Creative and Analytical Writing for Sociological Learning
December 3, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Race, Class and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
Students of sociology often struggle to see how society impacts their individual identities, decisions, relationships. This assignment invites students to explore "the social" by creating a fictional character. I have the students read the novel, American...
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