{"id":214,"date":"2012-10-24T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2012\/10\/24\/teachable-moments-oct-24-12\/"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T17:33:03","slug":"teachable-moments-oct-24-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2012\/10\/24\/teachable-moments-oct-24-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachable Moments: Oct-24-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the news events, stories, and links that I am discussing with my students in my Soc101 classes. Want to share a new event with me to include in the next teachable moments? Send them to me here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Malala Yousufzai shot in head by Taliban on school bus<\/a> \u2013 A great opportunity to talk about social movements, social change, and issue framing among many other possible topics. Also read Nicholas Kristof’s take on the shooting in the NYTimes<\/a> (Thanks to Mediha Din)<\/li>\n
  2. U-Conn Coach Auriemma wants to lower rims in NCAA women\u2019s basketball<\/a> to raise the popularity of the game. \u2013 Start a class discussion about equality vs. equity. Also, how gender norms affect the popularity of women\u2019s athletics.<\/li>\n
  3. Missouri Pastor\u2019s \u201canti-equality\u201d speech with a surprising twist ending. \u2013 A great comparison of LGTBQ\/GSM rights to civil rights.<\/li>\n
  4. UK Drug Policy Commission encourages the decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs \u2013 Great way to start a discussion about labeling theory and the social construction of a crime.<\/li>\n
  5. California bans \u201cconversion therapy\u201d for minors.<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. UrbanSitter is a new web service that will pair parents with a babysitter.<\/a> \u2013 I plan on talking about this in my Social Change class. Gets at the depersonalization of work that Ritzer talks about in The Globalization of Nothing<\/em><\/a> among many other places.<\/li>\n
  7. The always great Philip Cohen explaining the Regnerus controversy<\/a> in 4 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    These are the news events, stories, and links that I am discussing with my students in my Soc101 classes. Want to share a new event with me to include in the next teachable moments? Send them to me here. Malala Yousufzai shot in head by Taliban on school bus \u2013 A great opportunity to talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30649],"tags":[12061],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}