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Yen-Ting Hsu
From Atomized Q&As to Team-based Concept Mapping: How to Transform Review Sessions into Peer-learning Opportunities
March 25, 2022
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, Race, Class and Gender, Small Groups, Stratification/Mobility, Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level, College 100
Class Size(s):
Medium, Small
Abstract:

Review sessions are conventionally structured as a Q&A session in which individual students ask the instructor questions about the course materials. This form yields the most fruitful learning outcome when students actively review the course content beforehand...

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Meghan Murphy
‘Snapshots of Joy’: Using Photography and Written Word to Cultivate Community within a Classroom
May 6, 2022
... This classroom activity can be used in a number of different sociology classes including RESOUCE TYPE: Class Activity TITLE: ‘Snapshots of Joy’: Using Photography and Written Word ..."
Subject Area(s):
Children and Youth, Education, Emotions, Social Psychology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:

This article presents, with hopes of replication, a program designed to foster the social-emotional growth, community, connection and self-discovery for students through a program called “Snapshots of Joy”. The multi-part program encourages students, of any grade...

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Juliana Morais de Goés
What is development? An introduction to the post/decolonial critique
December 13, 2019
... ? An introduction to the post/decolonial critique." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources ..."
Subject Area(s):
Development
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:
This activity, based in experiences with popular education, is an introduction to the post/decolonial critiques to the concept of development. More specifically, it focuses on the following questions: What is development? Who defines what is a developed and a...
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Red toy houses in a line.
Adelle Monteblanco
Pick Your Path: Teaching Sociology with a Creative Writing Assignment
January 14, 2022
... that the student thought about how economic status, race, gender, formal educational attainment, geography ..."
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium, Small
Abstract:

Fostering students’ creative thinking is a frequent goal of higher education instructors. When instructors aim to develop this skill in their students’ sociological writing, it encourages instructors to create alternatives to the commonly used research paper. This...

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Aurea K Osgood, Jennifer Nargang Chernega
Getting Students Excited About Social Research
November 2, 2011
... the nation’s people and economy. The U.S. Census Bureau collects and disseminates national population ..."
Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
In an effort to get undergraduate students interested in social research, we designed a series of "field trips" to research organizations. These organizations ranged from ranging from a community-based urban research center to an international data analysis and...
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Sherry N. Mong
Teaching About Criminological Theory and Hate Crime Through Documentary: The Case of Matthew Shepard
November 29, 2016
... : The Case of Matthew Shepard." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations (s): Film; discussion; class activity Author(s): Sherry N. Mong Subject Area: Criminological Theory ..."
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Introducing students to criminological theory is a major goal of Principles of Criminology classes. Hate crime or "bias crime", however, involves the offenders’ prejudice against marginalized groups, and requires analyses which go beyond what is considered in...
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JoEllen Pederson, Patrick McGrady, Hanna Jokinen-Gordon
Stepping into Inequality: An Activity to Prepare Students for Understanding an Unequal Education System
August 14, 2012
... N. Evans, and Robert M. Schwab. 2001. “Education spending in an aging America” Journal of Public Economics ..."
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Motivated by experiential learning strategies and critical self-reflection, this activity to introduce students to educational inequality and the effects of race, class, and gender within the education system. Doing the "Educational Steps" activity enables students...
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Megan Rolfe, Caitlin Walsh
Compensating Carework: An Activity about Gender Inequality and Devalued Labor
May 19, 2011
... : In-Class Activity and Guided Discussion Brief Description Through asking students to provide a salary ..."
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Through asking students to provide a salary for cooking, cleaning, and childcare services, the "Compensating Carework" activity focuses the classroom lens on the traditionally unpaid, devalued, female-typed of carework in order to illuminate persistent gender...
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Brandi Lee Perri
"In 10-15 years, ….": Imagining Our Future Families
August 18, 2015
... , ….”: Imagining Our Future Families." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations ..."
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This learning activity insists that students use their imaginations to think about what their families will look like in ten to fifteen years through actively, anonymously, and critically engaging with each other. Through anonymously filling out a handout about their...
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Timothy Madigan
POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: A SIMPLE GROUP TEST
April 29, 2011
... KNOWLEDGE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: A SIMPLE GROUP TEST." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources ..."
Subject Area(s):
Public Policy
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
EXAMPLE RESOURCE: Students often come to class with little to no awareness of the specifics of the world of politics operating around them. This exercise asks students, without warning, to name the major bills that have been passed in their state’s General Assembly....
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Katherine Lyon, Neil Guppy
Teaching the Sociological Imagination: Imagining the Social Side of Loneliness
January 23, 2015
... . Details: Resource Types Class Activity Authors Katherine Lyon University of British Columbia Neil : Dealing with the New Economic Inequality. Canadian Council on Social Development.
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:
This lesson plan outlines a set of interactive exercises designed for one 50 minute tutorial in a first year introductory sociology course. Students are introduced to Mills’ The Sociological Imagination (1959) and participate in a close reading activity. The class...
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Gretchen Purser
"Diagramming the Argument" Activity
July 31, 2012
... in the same class period. 4. During the class activity, I, as an instructor, circulate around the room ..."
Subject Area(s):
Urban Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
This activity fosters active learning and peer collaboration by asking students to diagram the argument of a text, using a set of instructor-provided concepts. This example relates to a book taught in an Urban Poverty course (Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the...
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Charles D. Walton
Hoop Dreams: Using Film and Basketball to Teach Stratification
May 12, 2016
... : Using Film and Basketball to Teach Stratification." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources ..."
Subject Area(s):
Stratification/Mobility
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
Film is a commonly used tool in the classroom for introductory and social problems sociology courses. This activity recommends using the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams as a means to revisit the topics related to race, class and stratification opposed to normative...
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Carol A Jenkins
Lessons in Stratification: "Scarce Resources - Who Should Receive Them?"
July 24, 2020
... a form of systemic inequality built into the social structure. Details: Resource Type: Class ..."
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Sociologists who analyze stratification processes tend to explore the following questions: (1) what is "stratification"? (2) what variables tend to influence a person’s placement in the stratification system of a given social context, region, or society? (3) how...
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Maria D. Duenas
Naming Racisms: Identifying and Responding to Biological and Colorblind Racisms
May 14, 2020
... to Biological and Colorblind Racisms." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations ..."
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
The purpose of this activity is to help students identify and respond to biological and colorblind racisms they may hear in their everyday lives. The activity uses a pedagogical technique of chat stations where students move around the classroom to visit five...
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Hayley Lauren Lotspeich
Poverty and Life Chances
March 21, 2011
... ..” ______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2) In Fast Car, what values does she have that, regardless of economic security, she will not compromise ..."
Subject Area(s):
High School Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This assignment is designed to have students analyze the role of poverty in affecting people’s life chances, the difficulty of breaking out of poverty, and what obstacles exist when the poor attempt intergenerational mobility. Students will receive brief notes and...
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Batool Ilten
E-Greeting Card Analysis: Gendered Constructions of Love and Parenthood
April 20, 2015
... This class activity revises the Greeting Card activity by McWilliams and Barret (2013) to include Analysis: Gendered Constructions of Love and Parenthood." Class Activity adapted from 2013. Class Activity ..."
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This class activity revises the Greeting Card activity by McWilliams and Barret (2013) to include e-cards. McWilliams, Summer and Anne Barrett. 2013 "Greeting Card Analysis: Gendered Constructions of Love and Parenthood." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching...
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Tennille Nicole Allen
The Clothesline Project: Unpacking Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence through Sociology of Gender course readings.
March 15, 2013
... Take-Home Assignment, Class Activity Abstract: Given the high incidence of intimate partner violence ..."
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Given the high incidence of intimate partner violence as well as sexual abuse, assault, and violence that occurs within relationships, this assignment is designed to offer students an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the impacts of such abuse and violence...
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Nikhilendu Deb
Why People Get Married: Marriage and Social Class
January 20, 2016
... and Social Class." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library ..."
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
In this activity, students are asked why people get married or create families. Instructor assigns students to groups of three or four and have them discuss their answers before sharing them with the entire class. To inform students’ sociological thinking, they will...
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William J. Scarborough
Teaching the Sociological Imagination: Using Actual Lenses to See Personal Troubles as Public Issues
June 13, 2016
... a short lecture a. Mason’s unemployment and economic duress were a personal trouble. Many people ..."
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This classroom exercise uses a comic strip to introduce students to thinking with a sociological imagination by providing the opportunity for them to view personal troubles through various sociological lenses. In the activity, students are introduced through a comic...
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Jason T Eastman
Cartoon Sociology; Core Concepts in King of the Hill
December 29, 2011
... ; Core Concepts in King of the Hill." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources , economy, education, politics, etc … To overcome these challenges, the  episode “Three Coaches and a Bobby ..."
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Large
Abstract:
In this in-class exercise students use sociological concepts to analyze the behaviors and experiences of characters in an episode of the animated series ‘King of the Hill.’
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Dan Lainer-Vos
Linking Theory and Policy: Writing Theoretically Informed Policy Briefs
August 24, 2022
... and outdated. Hoping to bring social theory to the present, this in-class activity and follow-up assignment . I, therefore, recommend a small group exercise in thinking about and writing policy brief. The class activity a small group exercise on policy brief writing before handing off the assignment. This in-class activity ..."
Subject Area(s):
Marxist Sociology, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, Theory
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200, College 300
Class Size(s):
Medium, Small
Abstract:

Undergraduate students often struggle to relate to social theory, which they see as abstract and outdated. Hoping to bring social theory to the present, this in-class activity and follow-up assignment challenge students to develop theoretically informed policy...

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Tal H. Peretz
Critiquing Color-Blind Racism and Racial Fallacies in "The Daily Show"
December 29, 2014
... This classroom activity provides an opportunity for students to practice identifying colorblind -Blind Racism and Racial Fallacies in “The Daily Show”." Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching ..."
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This classroom activity provides an opportunity for students to practice identifying colorblind racism (Bonilla-Silva 2003) and racial fallacies (Desmond and Emirbayer 2009) in media and in everyday conversations. While students often understand the idea of covert...
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Erin K Anderson
Doing Sociology - An exercise in applying research methods for sociology
February 18, 2016
... in the process, and rationale for the chosen methodology. The in-class activity and subsequent individual . This assignment could easily be adapted for use only as an in-class activity or for online use or collaboration - An exercise in applying research methods for sociology." Assignment, Class Activity published in TRAILS ..."
Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This set of prompts has been used in an Introduction to Sociology course to conclude the text chapter/lectures on research methods. After spending several class sessions talking about the various methods sociologists use to conduct research, as well as the pros and...
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Jessica Anna Cebulak
Identifying Colorblind Ideology on The O'Reilly Factor
March 31, 2015
... I introduce my students to colorblind racism. Before this class activity, students are assigned an excerpt ..."
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:
The purpose of this activity is to engage students with examples of colorblind racism in media discourse. To do this, this activity utilizes an excerpt from The O’Reilly Factor. This activity will assess students’ understanding of the four central frames of...
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