{"id":1464,"date":"2012-05-15T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2020-02-11T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:22:11","slug":"the-great-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/05\/15\/the-great-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by hardtopeel on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/61804017@N07\/7196949216\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7224\/7196949216_5717cc2dc9_m.jpg\" alt=\"20111009-OWS-Azcuy-10\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2012\/05\/09\/david-grusky-on-the-great-recession\/\">latest episodes of Office Hours<\/a>, TSP\u2019s Sarah Shannon speaks with Stanford University Sociology Professor David Grusky about the social and economic effects of the recession.&nbsp; This entire podcast could be assigned to students, though you could also considering assigning part of it (the first 20 minutes, for example).<\/p>\n<p>Grusky and Shannon cover many topics in this 50-minute conversation, so there are many avenues for discussion.&nbsp; Here are a few basic questions that cover some of the main points.<\/p>\n<p>1)&nbsp;&nbsp; How does the most recent recession differ from past recessions?&nbsp; In other words, what makes it a \u201cgreat\u201d recession?<\/p>\n<p>2)&nbsp;&nbsp; How does the recession affect inequality in the United States?<\/p>\n<p>3)&nbsp;&nbsp; What are some of the responses to the recession, and how do they differ from responses to the Great Depression?<\/p>\n<p>4)&nbsp;&nbsp; Why does Grusky see a danger in the focus on tax-based solutions to the current economic problems?<\/p>\n<p>5)&nbsp;&nbsp; Grusky and Shannon speak specifically about college students several times throughout the podcast?&nbsp; How is the recession impacting students? &nbsp;Why is education an important part of this discussion?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Near the end of the podcast, Grusky mentions a website on recession trends that will be launching soon.&nbsp; Stay tuned to learn more about that website and how it can be used in the classroom!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the latest episodes of Office Hours, TSP\u2019s Sarah Shannon speaks with Stanford University Sociology Professor David Grusky about the social and economic effects of the recession.&nbsp; This entire podcast could be assigned to students, though you could also considering assigning part of it (the first 20 minutes, for example). Grusky and Shannon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127407],"tags":[36,13,837,392,119,814],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class-exercises-activities","tag-economics","tag-inequality","tag-materials","tag-podcasts","tag-poverty","tag-recession"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","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\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}