Class Readings
We wrote eight essays for Contexts magazine. They’re accessible and illustrated, so they’re excellent for classes. And they’re short enough to assign in class for exercises or discussions. See and download our class readings here.
Image Guides
Image Guides collect strong SocImages posts organized in a way that follows standard syllabi for frequently-taught sociology courses or cover particular books, articles, or theorists.
- Introduction to Sociology, by Gwen Sharp (Nevada State College)
- Sociology of Gender, by Mary Nell Trautner (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
- Sociology of Sport, by J.A. Carter (University of Cincinnati)
- Sexuality and Society, by Amanda Jungels (Georgia State University)
- Sociological Research Methods, by Lisa Wade (Occidental College)
That’s all we’ve got! We’re looking for volunteers — sociology professors or graduate students — who are willing to browse our archives, pull out the most compelling posts, and arrange them in ways other instructors would find familiar and convenient. The Guides can cover entire courses or be designed to help illustrate a theory, article, or book.
Have a Guide you might like to put together? Send us an email at socimages@thesocietypages.org. We’re even happy to have duplicate Guides, since every instructor is different.
Pinterest Account
For quick and easy overview of SocImages material, visit our Pinterest Account. The site allows you to browse through over 8,000 images and videos without any text. You can borrow the material directly, or click through to the blog to read the analysis. We have these boards so far:
- All SocImages Content
- Social Construction
- Re-Touching and Photoshop
- Vintage Ads and Products
- Comics and Cartoons
- The Great Recession
- Racial/Ethnic Objectification
- Sexy Toy Make-Overs
- Gendered Parenting and Housework
- Heteronormativity
- What Color is “Flesh”?
- The Social Construction of Race
- Sexualized/Gendered Food
- The Tyranny of Pink and Blue
- Sexually Suggestive Advertising
Guest Blogging
We get 10-15 submissions to SocImages — readers sending material for us to write about — every day. Every. Day. Since we only post once a day, there’s no possible way for us to cover all of the material readers send in, even all of the good stuff! Accordingly, we’re happy to give sociology graduate students and instructors access to an account with some of our best submissions. If you’d like to be part of our guest blogging team, drop us a note at socimages@thesocietypages.org. If you write for us, you will receive our endless gratitude and some of the ~20,000 sets of eyeballs that visit us everyday.
Please see our Guidelines for Guest Bloggers.
Sample Assignments
We’ve been collecting sample assignments from instructors who’ve tried them out. You can peruse them here.
