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This piece by Merrill 2021, offers insight on some pedagogical tools instructors can use when teaching difficult or contentious topics.
Are you teaching about environmental sociology or political sociology? This video from ASA’s video series featuring Aaron McCright of Michigan State University discusses why climate change is so politically polorized in the US compared to other countries.
How do people perceive the effectiveness of different protest tactics? How disruptive do they consider them to be? In this data visualization from Socius, Furl and colleagues (2023) present how a sample of U.S. voters rated a variety of protest methods.
In this Socius article, Reosti and colleagues (2024) question the validity of the argument that regulations hurt “mom and pop” landlords by examining the Seattle rental market.
Are you interested in discussing ethics in one of your sociology courses? This resource from ASA provides over a hundred case studies that can help facilitate discussion!
Repost: Intro textbooks typically devote little attention to environmental sociology. Check out this @TheSocietyPages post from 2019 on helping students think sociologically about climate change. Link to a module you can use in your Intro class included!
This ASA section provides a collection of resources for instructors planning to teach about climate change. The page offers example syllabi, peer-reviewed articles, and even feature films.
In this article, Philip Cohen (2025) discusses some of the uncertainties many academics may be feeling at the moment. The author provides some tips for scholars grappling with this uncertainty and urges us to write “as if the truth really matters.”
In this Everyday Sociology blog post, Sternheimer (2024) discusses the ways people become group members that might be helpful to first-year students having trouble acclimatizing to campus.
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.
This piece by Merrill 2021, offers insight on some pedagogical tools instructors can use when teaching difficult or contentious topics.
Are you teaching about environmental sociology or political sociology? This video from ASA’s video series featuring Aaron McCright of Michigan State University discusses why climate change is so politically polorized in the US compared to other countries.
How do people perceive the effectiveness of different protest tactics? How disruptive do they consider them to be? In this data visualization from Socius, Furl and colleagues (2023) present how a sample of U.S. voters rated a variety of protest methods.
In this Socius article, Reosti and colleagues (2024) question the validity of the argument that regulations hurt “mom and pop” landlords by examining the Seattle rental market.
Are you interested in discussing ethics in one of your sociology courses? This resource from ASA provides over a hundred case studies that can help facilitate discussion!
Repost: Intro textbooks typically devote little attention to environmental sociology. Check out this @TheSocietyPages post from 2019 on helping students think sociologically about climate change. Link to a module you can use in your Intro class included!
This ASA section provides a collection of resources for instructors planning to teach about climate change. The page offers example syllabi, peer-reviewed articles, and even feature films.
In this article, Philip Cohen (2025) discusses some of the uncertainties many academics may be feeling at the moment. The author provides some tips for scholars grappling with this uncertainty and urges us to write “as if the truth really matters.”
In this Everyday Sociology blog post, Sternheimer (2024) discusses the ways people become group members that might be helpful to first-year students having trouble acclimatizing to campus.
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.