{"id":101,"date":"2009-04-09T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-04-09T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:58:34","slug":"graphic-sociology-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2009\/04\/09\/graphic-sociology-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Sociology in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, <em>all<\/em> of our blogs make for great classroom material, but our newest blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/\">Graphic Sociology<\/a>, is particularly good for teaching. It&#8217;s especially useful for courses on research methods and the presentation of data.<\/p>\n<p>Graphic Sociology is run by Laura Nor&eacute;n, a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University. Laura&#8217;s research is on the impact of design on social behavior and she&#8217;s also co-founder of a web design company, so she&#8217;s a good person to listen to on this subject. <\/p>\n<p>Each post pulls a particular graphic that tries to represent social data visually. Laura does a great job of pulling graphics from a wide range of sources on just about any topic imaginable. Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/04\/08\/cigarette-tax-smoking-rates\/\">Cigarette taxes and smoking rates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/04\/02\/world-wide-web-usage-browser-market-share\/\">Web browser market share over time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/03\/25\/internal-migration-us\/\">Internal migration within the US<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The great thing about Graphic Sociology is that the posts work on many levels. Undergraduates and non-sociologists can appreciate it because the information presented is fascinating and the discussion of how the graphics can lead and mislead readers makes for a good exercise in critical thinking. If you&#8217;re teaching a course on research methods, this blog is a great resource for classroom material.<\/p>\n<p>For graduate students, sociologists or anyone else who has to present data as part of their job, the blog is a great place to learn what we&#8217;re doing wrong and to get ideas for how to present our data in new, more powerful ways. For example, you may not care about <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/04\/02\/world-wide-web-usage-browser-market-share\/\">web browser market share<\/a>, but you may be interested in the cool technique for representing data over time used in that graphic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, all of our blogs make for great classroom material, but our newest blog, Graphic Sociology, is particularly good for teaching. It&#8217;s especially useful for courses on research methods and the presentation of data. Graphic Sociology is run by Laura Nor&eacute;n, a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University. Laura&#8217;s research is on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}