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This Hill piece by Fisher and Yazdiha (2025) discusses the history of activism in the US and the lessons climate activists can learn from the civil rights movement.
In this Teaching Sociology piece, Rojo (2024) discusses both the challenges and opportunities in community-engaged learning and advocates for an approach that balances both student needs and community partnerships.
This article explores how sociology can aid in addressing the climate crisis. The authors discuss an all-of-sociology approach emphasizing the importance of building communities, researching areas of hope, and connecting all scholarship to climate-based research.
In this Contexts piece, Corey M. Abramson uses Mill’s Sociological Imagination to examine new ways AI can advance sociological research. The author also highlights some potential pitfalls of AI, such as erasure and abstract empiricism.
Lampe (2023) advocates for using TikTok to increase student engagement and class participation. The author discusses how TikTok can be used to simplify big concepts and examine lived experience.
In this article, the authors discuss the lasting impact state interactions can have on marginalized mothers, medical mistrust, and Fundamental Cause Theory. They also provide an exercise that can be useful for discussing these topics with students.
In this Context’s piece, Auldridge-Reveles and Murphy (2024) argue that we need a sociology of flourishing or well-being instead of focusing only on social problems.
Dixon and Quirke (2017) discuss how ethics chapters in sociological research methods textbooks promote a procedural rather than nuanced approach to ethics. They suggest ways for instructors to help students develop a fuller understanding of conducting ethical research.
This one-page piece by Ridgeway (2024) from Contexts Magazine is a great introduction to status and status processes for students!
Thompson (2024) examines parental preferences in school selection, highlighting how individual choices influence school communities. The study finds that parents prioritize overall school achievement and learning opportunities over schools with higher equity ratings.
This Hill piece by Fisher and Yazdiha (2025) discusses the history of activism in the US and the lessons climate activists can learn from the civil rights movement.
In this Teaching Sociology piece, Rojo (2024) discusses both the challenges and opportunities in community-engaged learning and advocates for an approach that balances both student needs and community partnerships.
This article explores how sociology can aid in addressing the climate crisis. The authors discuss an all-of-sociology approach emphasizing the importance of building communities, researching areas of hope, and connecting all scholarship to climate-based research.
In this Contexts piece, Corey M. Abramson uses Mill’s Sociological Imagination to examine new ways AI can advance sociological research. The author also highlights some potential pitfalls of AI, such as erasure and abstract empiricism.
Lampe (2023) advocates for using TikTok to increase student engagement and class participation. The author discusses how TikTok can be used to simplify big concepts and examine lived experience.
In this article, the authors discuss the lasting impact state interactions can have on marginalized mothers, medical mistrust, and Fundamental Cause Theory. They also provide an exercise that can be useful for discussing these topics with students.
In this Context’s piece, Auldridge-Reveles and Murphy (2024) argue that we need a sociology of flourishing or well-being instead of focusing only on social problems.
Dixon and Quirke (2017) discuss how ethics chapters in sociological research methods textbooks promote a procedural rather than nuanced approach to ethics. They suggest ways for instructors to help students develop a fuller understanding of conducting ethical research.
This one-page piece by Ridgeway (2024) from Contexts Magazine is a great introduction to status and status processes for students!
Thompson (2024) examines parental preferences in school selection, highlighting how individual choices influence school communities. The study finds that parents prioritize overall school achievement and learning opportunities over schools with higher equity ratings.