Connections
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.
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.
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.
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.