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TRAILS Featured Resources
TRAILS Featured Resources
February 23, 2023

TRAILS, the Teaching Resources and Innovation Library for Sociology, provides a way for you to easily locate peer-reviewed teaching materials, showcase your teaching ideas, develop professionally, and join a community of scholarly teachers. You will find great assignments, syllabi, lectures, and other teaching ideas at TRAILS. Please also consider submitting your great ideas for teaching. The Featured Resources include some of the newest additions to our collection.

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Rosalyn Darling
SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH CARE
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This course will examine the structure and function of the U.S. health care system from a sociological perspective. The focus will be both macro- and micro-level and, in addition to organizational issues, will explore the roles of physicians and patients as well as...
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Theodore C. Wagenaar
"To Be (Applied) Or Not to Be? That is the Question" & Example Syllabus
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This course serves as a culminating experience for your study in sociology. The introductory course introduced you to the discipline. Most of your subsequent sociology courses examined particular topics within the sociological framework. By now, you probably have...
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Jeffery P. Dennis
Gender Identification Exercise
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Students must guess the gender of several people, basing their judgment purely on information supplied: occupation, relationship status, hobbies, tastes, and interests.
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Stephen A. Sweet, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes
Work-Family Films
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Film List
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
A list of suggested films for teaching the Sociology of Work and Family
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Barbara R. Keating
Social Context Lecture
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Lecture
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
Part I: Pre-lecture activity: distribute handout with statements and discuss. Part II. Discussion: What do these quotes, verbalisms, comments have in common? Part III. Lecture on the Social Context of Violence
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Heather Sullivan-Catlin
Homework Assignments & In-Class Activities
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Homework Assignments & In-Class Activities on the topic of Sociology of Food.
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Jennifer Friedman
DRUGS & SOCIETY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Alcohol and Drugs
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
This course will explore the social construction of substance use in the United States. By engaging in an historical analysis of substance use, students will take a look at the numerous dynamics which work to define the legality status of particular drugs. In...
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Lesley J. Wood
The Political Economy of Social Movements
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Collective Behavior/Social Movements
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Social movements are intrinsic to societies characterized by unequal access to property, political power, and cultural resources. In this course, the relevance of political economy to the study of social movements will be critically reviewed in relation to other...
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Jeffrey S. Victor
A Community Study of AIDS Attitudes in a Small Town:
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Abstract:
On October 27, 1997, public health officials and police announced that many teenage girls in the small town of Jamestown, New York, had been infected with HIV by one young man, named Nushawn Williams. Suddenly, a great deal of publicity was focused on "the AIDS...
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Katherine B. Novak
GOVERNMENT STATISTICS AND MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF THE AMOUNT AND DISTRIBUTION OF CRIME IN SOCIETY: AN ASSIGNMENT
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
In this assignment, students explore crime rates in the UCR and NCVS, and the "rates" of criminal activity in the media. They are, then, asked to examine the ways the media representations of crime rates and official crime rates differ, and the implications of those...
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