Sociology Through Active Learning : Student Exercises

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Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2008-07-10
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary

This student workbook is designed to allow you to easily integrate multiple active learning exercises into your Introduction to Sociology courses. Many teachers want to use "active learning" in their class, but don't have the materials commensurate with that pedagogy. These 51 active learning exercises have been carefully selected from a nationwide search of the best class-tested active learning material available in sociology. Affordably priced, this workbook provides the best that sociology has to offer! Key and New Features Offers many fresh exercises-about 40% of the assignments are new to this edition Features tear-out worksheets for ease of submission and grading Presents a wide variety of exercises in terms of content, time required, usefulness for individual or group completion, and relevance for in-class or out-of-class practiceInstructors' Resources on CD-ROM! Instructors' Resources on CD-ROM provides detailed information on using, grading, and adapting the exercises. In addition the CD-ROM also includes commentary from the contributing authors explaining their experiences with the exercises, including how they promote specific learning goals and how current instructions to students facilitate the assignment. This CD-ROM features new components to the summary chart for instructors that indicate which assignments have web components, which have global aspects, and other criteria to help professors select the most useful exercises for their teaching needs. Qualified instructors may receive a copy by contacting SAGE at 1-800-818-SAGE (7243) between 6 am - 5 pm, PST.Intended Audience The book is designed as the ideal active learning companion to virtually all Introduction to Sociology texts, making it an ideal supplemental text for any undergraduate Introduction to Sociology or Principles of Sociology course.

Table of Contents

Puzzling Over Theoretical Perspectives
The Speed Discussion
Faculty Doors as Symbolic Statements
A Very Short Survey
Helping Experiment
An Introduction to an Important Source for Basic Quantitative Sociological Data
Decoding Human Behavior: Social Norms and Daily Life
Understanding Social Location
Application Exercise on Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Peer Learning in Sociology -- Learning about Other Cultures from International Students
Observing Culture
Writing Children's Books
Gender Socialization
Leadership, Gender, and the Invisible Ceiling: Survey Activity
NASA: Understanding Social Interaction
Group Decision-Making
Six Statements for Teaching Social Stratification
Guided Fantasy: The Titanic Game
Food Stamp Challenge
Making Ends Meet
Global Inequality: Comparing Guinea to the United States
Global Stratification and its Impact on a Country's Population Characteristics
Team Case Study of a Community Organization
Structural Change at Your College or University
Critique of Student Government
Occupation and Income Exercise
Fast Food, Fast Talk: Interactive Service Work
Critically Thinking About Race through Visual Media
Drawing Pictures: Race and Gender Stereotypes
Stump that Race Game
A Group Exercise in Affirmative Action
Analyzing the Social Construction of Gender in Birth Announcement Cards
Reading Little Critter: Understanding the Power of Symbols
Debating Deviance
Deviance Mini Case Study
Images of Crime
Media Portrayals of Crime
Drug Testing in the Workplace: What Would You Do?
Housework: Division of Labor
Parenthood: Defining Family
Family History Project
Tommy?s Story
Mapping Census Data for Your Town
Song Analysis Project
"All of a Sudden?": Exploring Sociology in Everyday Life
Critical Reports on Contemporary Social Problems
Literary and Artistic Reflections on War, Terror and Violence
Student Empowerment: Student-Designed Syllabus
My Page: Student Information
Initial Group Assessment
Panel Debates
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