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What advice would you give sociology teachers? Join the conversation with sociology graduate students who answered the question in this recent Teaching Sociology article by Sanchez and Gilbertson.
Anna Kirkland has been studying law, health, and discrimination for twenty-five years. She is a professor of Women’s and ...
Are you teaching a course on labor unions? This article highlights recent scholarly work that explores the changing landscape of labor unions in the U.S., focusing on new organizing efforts and ...
The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...
Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Read more ...
White trash. For many, the name evokes images of trailer parks, meth labs, beat-up Camaros on cinder blocks, and poor rural folks with too many kids and not enough government cheese. It’s a put-down, ...
Flashback Friday. Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught. Also available on Amazon.
These are just a few of the ways that systemic racism has shaped basketball culture in New York City. As a result of these challenges, black and brown players have had to overcome significant ...
As you may know, Disney has a movie coming out later this year called “The Princess and the Frog,” a retelling of the story of the princess who kisses a frog that then helpfully turns into a handsome ...
Today is the first day of school at the college where I teach, so I thought it would be a nice time to re-post this oldie-but-goodie on the relationship between income and SAT scores. I’m sure all of ...
I would love to hear your thoughts on the difference between nationalism and localism. Obviously there is a huge scale difference, but there is a lot of us vs. them thinking in localism, and I think ...
Protesters in Little Rock, Arkansas, (1959) declared that “race mixing” (or school integration) was “communism”: A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish argues that accusations of communism then, ...