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A website about teaching sociology. From sharing syllabi and readings to quick tips about grading and technology.

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Conversations with top social scientists about their research and the social world. Listen online or subscribe: iTunes, RSS.

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Sociological Criminology from Chris Uggen, Michelle Inderbitzin, and Sara Wakefield.

11 hours ago: Sesame Street on Incarcerated Parents

We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality.

17 hours ago: #Standingman: The Meme for the Masses

Sociology Lens is the associated site for Sociology Compass, Wiley-Blackwell’s review journal on all fields sociological. On this site we host daily posts, video files and news items from our team of contributors.

22 hours ago: Paula Cooper’s Second Chance: The Power of Restorative Justice?

Girl w/ Pen publicly and passionately dispels modern myths concerning gender, encouraging other feminist scholars, writers, and thinkers to do the same.

13 hours ago: A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood

Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry.

18 hours ago: Professors Join the Precariat

On July 1, 2013 Walt Jacobs will become professor and Founding Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Here, he'll write about his preparations and chronicle his first year in administration, trying to apply his view of academic leadership as both a science and an art.

1 day ago: A New Language-Learning Curriculum?

Drawing on a shared commitment to informed policymaking, the Scholars Strategy Network brings together leading scholars to address pressing public challenges with relevant research, basic facts, and policy options.

Contexts is an ASA publication, edited by Jodi O’Brien (Seattle University) and Arlene Stein (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). The Society Pages is proud to host contexts.org.

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