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Direct linkTouzard, Giselle – Teaching Sociology, 2009
This article describes an in-class activity that helps undergraduate students to understand the effects of their socio-economic position on the formulation, pursuit, and achievement of goals. Social stratification and inequality have an initial impact on the formulation of goals. Through this exercise students will perceive the effects of having a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Goal Orientation, Barriers, Role Playing
Law, Alex – LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2007
In this paper, I examine the problem of common-sense democracy, understood here as a habitus of equal participation in social and political dialogue, through the teaching of sociology to non-traditional students at a Scottish post-1992 university. For the eighteenth century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, common sense was intrinsically…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Democracy, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
