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Post by NewTeacher on Apr 7, 2015 20:39:50 GMT -5
Hi Everyone,
I'm going to begin my teaching career this Fall. I will be teaching introductory sociology. I'm thinking to use a text for conceptual discussions and a collection of articles to show how those are applied in sociological analysis. I know few about articles, but those are pretty old.
Im wondering if you can suggest some recent article that demonstrate application of the general concepts we cover in a standard Intro Soc class.
Thanks.
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Post by Reader on Apr 8, 2015 0:12:03 GMT -5
I'd suggest using a reader for intro classes. Students will get the most important points and there's a higher chance they'll actually do the readings.
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Post by runner on Apr 8, 2015 10:14:22 GMT -5
depends a lot on where you teach. where i am, using a reader - even in intro - is looked at with some suspicion (by faculty and students alike).
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Post by I'mCurious on Apr 13, 2015 13:44:33 GMT -5
^what type of school is that, runner? My small liberal arts school views standard textbooks suspicion.
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Post by runner on Apr 13, 2015 14:26:43 GMT -5
i meant that *even a reader* is viewed with suspicion. collective shudder and mouthgape at textbooks.
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Contexts and Classics
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Post by Contexts and Classics on Apr 13, 2015 18:57:02 GMT -5
Contexts articles are really excellent for this purpose. Brief and accessible summaries of recent research that connect well to concepts and theories I cover in my intro class. For instance, for my week on gender, I use Hillary Levey's "Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field," CJ Pascoe and others on "Boys as Human" and a couple chapters from Second Shift (I try to incorporate classics where I can as well). Contexts has some good older pieces on research methods, and I also use a really short blurb Devah Pager wrote about doing an audit study, and the Smith-Lovin et. al. piece on "shrinking social networks" and talk with them a bit about the questions others have raised about it. Obviously lots of great stuff on inequality--Dodson and Futrell on working-class families, Western and Petit on race and prisons...I'd use the search function for the journal and see what you find that works well with different units of your course.
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Post by ditto on Apr 13, 2015 23:19:23 GMT -5
I agree with runner in that depends a lot on where you are teaching. I teach at a small state school with a lot of non-traditional and low income students. Here we pretty much have to use textbooks. Textbooks are covered by the state's financial aid program, while printing isn't. And since a good chunk of students don't have access to a tablet or pc at home, having a huge chunk of online articles to read actually places a greater burden on them.
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Post by NewTeacher on Apr 16, 2015 11:45:05 GMT -5
Hi Everyone,
Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
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