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Teaching Affirmative Action: An Opportunity to Apply, Integrate, and Reinforce Sociological Concepts
Bohmer, Susanne; Oka, Kayleen U. – Teaching Sociology, 2007
Affirmative action, a controversial topic about which students have many misconceptions, lends itself especially well to a sociological analysis. This paper describes an approach to teaching that: (1) informs students of different affirmative action programs; (2) gives them the opportunity to apply and integrate a variety of concepts and research…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Misconceptions, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models
Friedman, Kathie; Rosenberg, Karen – Teaching Sociology, 2007
Teaching about intersecting, fluid and historically contingent identities has been taken up extensively within the sociology of race, class and gender and women's studies. Oddly, the case of Jewish women has been virtually left out of this robust literature. This article explores the challenges raised through teaching the course "Jewish Women in…
Descriptors: Jews, Females, Womens Studies, Sociology

McKinney, Kathleen – Teaching Sociology, 1988
Lists five components essential to quality teaching: (1) fairness, (2) application, (3) challenge, (4) entertainment, and (5) service. States that these components should be incorporated into such phases of teaching as class preparation, office hours, informal involvement, advising, writing tests, and curricular planning. (BSR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sociology, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement
Yamane, David – Teaching Sociology, 2006
Although many of us would like to get beyond lecturing, we often lack concrete strategies for doing so, particularly in our larger classes. This paper suggests one such strategy for creating a discussion-based course. The success of such a course is predicated on students reading and thinking about the course material (receiving "first exposure")…
Descriptors: Assignments, Active Learning, Lecture Method, Educational Strategies
Dowell, William – Teaching Sociology, 2006
Sociologists agree that the sociological imagination fosters students' critical thinking skills (Eckstein, Schoenike, and Delaney 1995; Haddad and Lieberman 2002; Logan 1976; Mayer 1986; Misra 2000). The challenge lies in motivating students to develop their sociological imaginations. Convincing them of its importance and practical value takes…
Descriptors: Imagination, Sanitation, Sociology, Thinking Skills
Malcom, Nancy L. – Teaching Sociology, 2006
This paper outlines a project that provides a framework for engaging students in current events in such a way that they develop and improve critical sociological thinking through regular and structured writing assignments. Though this paper describes a news-analysis project that is similar to many that have been used in sociology classrooms both…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Social Problems, Current Events, Critical Thinking
Nurse, Anne M.; Krain, Matthew – Teaching Sociology, 2006
Criminology and Deviance Classes are often among the most popular in the sociology undergraduate curriculum. These courses provide a unique opportunity for teachers since many students come to class with an intense interest in the subject matter combined with strong opinions about crime, criminals, and deviants. Because these opinions are often…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Crime, Service Learning, Criminology
Prendergast, Christopher – Teaching Sociology, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to share some classroom materials that help undergraduates extract more sociologically relevant content from the ethnographic research publications they read. Aided by prototyping, discussion, and practice, the materials can help students develop ethnographic research projects that are better framed conceptually. The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Instructional Materials, Classroom Techniques
Hood, Jane C. – Teaching Sociology, 2006
Although all of us must teach against the text at times, I find myself doing this most often when teaching about qualitative methods in the context of a general introductory methods course. Myths about the nature and practice of qualitative research are both embedded in the folklore of mainstream sociology and supported by the textbooks that we…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Qualitative Research, Textbooks, Teaching Methods
Goldsmith, Pat Antonio – Teaching Sociology, 2006
In this paper I present a pedagogical method called Writing Answers to Learn (WAL) which combines Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Exploratory Writing to address the interrelated pedagogical problems of misconceptions, resistance, retention, and transfer. I analyze the use of this combined method in a course on racial and ethnic relations and…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Ideology, Misconceptions, Teaching Methods
Gordy, Laurie L.; Peary, Alexandria – Teaching Sociology, 2005
The reading and writing of creative writing have the potential to bring sociology to life in a dramatic way. Literature has been used in sociology in one of two ways: to provide sociological evidence and as an object of analysis--a social institution to be studied in its own right. Previous scholarship has proven that the use of literature in…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creative Writing, Autobiographies, Sociology
Cunningham, David; Kingma-Kiekhofer, Cheryl – Teaching Sociology, 2004
This article introduces an approach to service learning based on students' collective engagement with a range of community organizations. We explore the particular benefits of this comparative collective community-based (CCC) learning model through a discussion of the "Possibilities for Change in American Communities" program, which was begun by…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Service Learning, Comparative Analysis, Community Organizations
Crull, Sue R.; Collins, Susan M. – Teaching Sociology, 2004
Social scientists, particularly sociologists, seem to place great value in small classes and group projects, especially in teaching research methods. However, in the authors' department, the sophomore-level research methods class ranges from 70 to 105 students, which would result in 14 to 21 small groups for one instructor to supervise without a…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Research Methodology, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
Lauer, Sean R.; Yodanis, Carrie L. – Teaching Sociology, 2004
As American-trained sociologists teaching Swiss students, they had to broaden their U.S.-centered sociological perspective in the classroom. In courses on statistics and research methods, social inequality, economic sociology, sociology of the family, and sociology of work, they needed to find international examples and data that they could use to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Research Methodology, Workshops, Sociology
Jakubowski, Lisa Marie; Burman, Patrick – Teaching Sociology, 2004
The opportunities, challenges, and lessons of the pilot phase of a community development program in a small liberal arts college are presented and conceptualized in this paper. We based this program on an experiential learning model derived from Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy and Stephen Brookfield's notion of critically responsive learning. A…
Descriptors: Community Development, Critical Theory, Experiential Learning, Teaching Models
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