Sociology Through Active Learning: Student Exercises / Edition 2

by Kathleen McKinney, Barbara S. Heyl

Overview

"A great source for kinesthetic learning activities. I've used the book for designing my course for multiple learning styles. "
—Megan Thiele, University of California, Irvine

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 practice

Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!
Instructor Resources on CD provide detailed information on using, grading, and adapting the exercises. In addition the CD 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412957038
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/10/2008
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Puzzling Over Theoretical Perspectives - Kathleen S. Lowney
The Speed Discussion - Peter Kaufman
Faculty Doors as Symbolic Statements - John W. Eby
A Very Short Survey - Susan M. Collins, Sue R. Crull
Helping Experiment - Paul Higgins, Mitchell B. Mackinem
An Introduction to an Important Source for Basic Quantitative Sociological Data - Edward L. Kain
Decoding Human Behavior: Social Norms and Daily Life - Corinne Lally Benedetto
Understanding Social Location - Andrea Malkin Brenner
Application Exercise on Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism - Virginia T. Gill
Peer Learning in Sociology — Learning about Other Cultures from International Students - Beth Pamela Skott
Observing Culture - Craig This
Writing Children's Books - Peter Kaufman
Gender Socialization - Betsy Lucal
Leadership, Gender, and the Invisible Ceiling: Survey Activity - Keith A. Roberts
NASA: Understanding Social Interaction - Heather M. Griffiths
Group Decision-Making - Judy L. Singleton
Six Statements for Teaching Social Stratification - Lissa J. Yogan
Guided Fantasy: The Titanic Game - John R. Bowman
Food Stamp Challenge - Sandra Enos
Making Ends Meet - Mellisa Holtzman
Global Inequality: Comparing Guinea to the United States - Fadia Joseph, Donal J. Malone
Global Stratification and its Impact on a Country's Population Characteristics - Edward L. Kain
Team Case Study of a Community Organization - Rebecca Bach
Structural Change at Your College or University - Charles S. Green
Critique of Student Government - Alton M. Okinaka
Occupation and Income Exercise - Keith A. Roberts
Fast Food, Fast Talk: Interactive Service Work - Catherine Fobes, Adam Gillis
Critically Thinking About Race through Visual Media - Marcia Marx, Mary Thierry Texeira
Drawing Pictures: Race and Gender Stereotypes - Jacqueline C. Simpson
Stump that Race Game - Melanie D. Hildebrandt
A Group Exercise in Affirmative Action - Jacqueline C. Simpson
Analyzing the Social Construction of Gender in Birth Announcement Cards - Jacqueline Clark, Maxine Atkinson
Reading Little Critter: Understanding the Power of Symbols - Jacqueline C. Simpson
Debating Deviance - Brenda L. Beagan
Deviance Mini Case Study - Janis Mc Coy
Images of Crime - Paul Higgins, Mitchell Mackinem
Media Portrayals of Crime - Rebecca L. Bordt
Drug Testing in the Workplace: What Would You Do? - Robert B. Pettit
Housework: Division of Labor - Judy Aulette
Parenthood: Defining Family - Judy Aulette
Family History Project - Mark R. Warren
Tommy's Story - Marjorie Altergott
Mapping Census Data for Your Town - Julie A. Pelton, Frank D. Beck
Song Analysis Project - Mellisa Holtzman
"All of a Sudden? ": Exploring Sociology in Everyday Life - Sarah E. Rusche, Kris Macomber
Critical Reports on Contemporary Social Problems - John J. Shalanski
Literary and Artistic Reflections on War, Terror and Violence - Danielle Taana Smith
Student Empowerment: Student-Designed Syllabus - Ada Haynes
My Page: Student Information - Janis Mc Coy
Initial Group Assessment - John R. Bowman
Panel Debates - Kathleen R. Johnson