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12/15/2017
Neal Caren at Scatterplot is collecting and sharing intro to sociology syllabi. Lots of great resources and ideas here. Check it out.
intro to sociology syllabus project I’m retooling my introduction to sociology syllabus for the spring. Unfortunately, there are almost no syllabuses left on the open web to use for inspiration. Blackboard and the like have walled of…
Seems to me:
1. Grading bad essay answers takes 10x longer than grading good ones.
2. Writing good, clear essay questions takes 10x longer to write than writing bad/unclear ones.
I would rather spend 10x as long writing good essay questions, than spend 10x as long grading bad essays.
11/06/2017
Jena Morrison uses a functionalist lens to look at the Las Vegas shooting last month.
Tragedy in Las Vegas and Functionalism of Deviance In this post, Jena Morrison looks at the Las Vegas shooting on October 2, 2017. By examining a national tragedy through the lens of Structural Functionalism, the concepts of anomie and social…
08/31/2017
Dysfunctional Donations: Situational Altruism and the Sending of Stuff After Disasters When disaster strikes and people appear to lose everything, there is an impulse to send them anything. In this piece, Amanda Fehlbaum examines why people feel a
08/29/2017
Stephanie Medley-Rath uses Blumer and symbolic interaction theory to investigate how the meanings we attach to the symbols of the confederacy and the term "alt-right" are socially constructed.
Monuments, Symbols, Words, and Meaning Making How can a sociological perspective help us understand the recent events in Charlottesville? In this post, Stephanie Medley-Rath explores how a symbolic interact
08/25/2017
Today's class brought to you by 3 different computers! 🤦🏻
08/23/2017
A great piece from about how to think sociologically we have to focus on the negative space that surrounds the individual.
Drawing the Negative Space June 14, 2012 Posted by Jay Livingston My roommate in grad school enrolled in a life drawing class. I’m not sure why; he was probably not...
08/18/2017
Looking for a way to explain to a student why their argument against what your teaching is specious? Here's a handy visual list of rhetorical/logical fallacies from Information Is Beautiful
Thanks to Mike Buhl & The Sociological Cinema for this one.
Rhetological Fallacies — Information is Beautiful The most common errors & manipulations of rhetoric & logical thinking - visualized.
08/16/2017
A piece I wrote for undergrads about reference groups & why it's easy to feel small small relative to the rockstars at ASA.
It’s Easy To Feel Small at ASA In this piece, Nathan Palmer uses the concept of reference groups and social contexts to explain why it is easy to feel insignificant when attending an academic
08/15/2017
"It’s not whether to talk to students about sensitive current events like the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., but how"
Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now, with an emphasis on Charlottesville Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now, with an emphasis on critical media literacy, ground rules for a discussion and an understanding that students see sociology classrooms as…
08/14/2017
What do you think this sign means? Give me your best/funniest guess. Go!
Found at in the Montreal Convention Center.
08/12/2017
It's been a privilege to work w/ Phillip, Syed, & Letta these last 3 years as a section editor of Contexts.