{"id":761,"date":"2011-07-07T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=761"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:25:15","slug":"economic-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/07\/07\/economic-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by ToGa Wanderings on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/69031678@N00\/5899676716\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6044\/5899676716_ff0d235315_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Money!\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Connecting students\u2019 lives and previous experiences to lessons is always a great way to capture attention.\u00a0 \u201cThe Sociology of Bubbles\u201d by Bruce G. Carruthers (<em>Contexts<\/em>, Summer 2009) explains the sociology of the economic meltdown, a topic that will surely be of interest to many students.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some potential questions that you could use with article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have any experience with the finance system in the U.S. (e.g., the stock market, school loans)? Has your experience been positive or negative? \u00a0If you have no experience, how do you think you will in the future?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Has the economic recession changed your views of the financial system in this country? What consequences of the recession have you seen in your own life?<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why do you think so many people invest in the stock market or borrow from banks when the risks are so high? What do you think this says about our culture?<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The author writes that economic inequality in this country is at levels not seen since the Great Depression. Based on what you learned from this article and your own knowledge, what are the social repercussions of such high economic inequality?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting students\u2019 lives and previous experiences to lessons is always a great way to capture attention.\u00a0 \u201cThe Sociology of Bubbles\u201d by Bruce G. Carruthers (Contexts, Summer 2009) explains the sociology of the economic meltdown, a topic that will surely be of interest to many students. Here are some potential questions that you could use with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838],"tags":[36,13],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings","tag-economics","tag-inequality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}