{"id":777,"date":"2011-08-04T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=777"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:48:07","slug":"moynihan-report-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/08\/04\/moynihan-report-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Moynihan Report Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sociologists recently revisited the controversial 1965 Moynihan Report. \u00a0Your students can read about it in the Fall 2009 <em>Contexts<\/em> feature &#8220;The Moynihan Report, A Retrospective&#8221; by Kate Ledger. \u00a0Below are some questions and an activity you can use in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) The Moynihan Report is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/oasam\/programs\/history\/webid-meynihan.htm\">http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/oasam\/programs\/history\/webid-meynihan.htm<\/a>. Read the introduction and describe how it compares with the image you had after reading the <em>Contexts<\/em> article. Which analysis do you find more compelling and\/or enlightening?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2) According to this article, a number of sociologists think Moynihan would have had different ideas about black families had he studied class instead of race. Why would this be true?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3) When the Moynihan Report was leaked to the press 45 years ago, there was an outcry and social science about family, race, and inequality started to happen &#8220;under the radar.&#8221; \u00a0How can the media help or hinder social science research?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Activity<\/span>: Use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.com\/\">www.eurekalert.com<\/a> or a comparable source to find a press release on a social scientific study that sounds interesting. Read the press release and the original article (your school&#8217;s library website will help you find\u00a0the original) and compare them. Does the press release do the article justice? What parts of the original research seem overlooked? Do any seem overhyped?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sociologists recently revisited the controversial 1965 Moynihan Report. \u00a0Your students can read about it in the Fall 2009 Contexts feature &#8220;The Moynihan Report, A Retrospective&#8221; by Kate Ledger. \u00a0Below are some questions and an activity you can use in the classroom. &nbsp; 1) The Moynihan Report is available online at http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/oasam\/programs\/history\/webid-meynihan.htm. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[70,13,14,838],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-family","tag-inequality","tag-race","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}