{"id":796,"date":"2011-08-24T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:46:27","slug":"sociologys-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/08\/24\/sociologys-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology&#8217;s Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Striplight on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11796383@N04\/6075494266\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6067\/6075494266_b487d83ceb_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chips\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Joel Best&#8217;s 2009 <em>Contexts<\/em> feature &#8220;Sociologists as Outliers&#8221; takes a look at how sociologists can learn from Malcom Gladwell&#8217;s ability to translate research to a wide audience. \u00a0In the classroom, students can discuss what sociology contributes to the understanding of social behavior and how we can make our contributions known.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pick a success in your life and identify the social factors that played a role in the chain of events that helped you succeed.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0 The hockey league example illustrates that circumstances can change outcomes. Think of another example where structural forces shape individual outcomes and describe it briefly.<\/p>\n<p>ACTIVITY: Find a news article on the web that quotes a sociologist (see our sister blog, Citings &amp; Sightings). \u00a0Why was a sociologist particularly well-suited to comment on the topic of the article? What did sociology bring to the discussion that another field might not?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Best&#8217;s 2009 Contexts feature &#8220;Sociologists as Outliers&#8221; takes a look at how sociologists can learn from Malcom Gladwell&#8217;s ability to translate research to a wide audience. \u00a0In the classroom, students can discuss what sociology contributes to the understanding of social behavior and how we can make our contributions known. 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pick a success in [&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":[5009,838],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-applied","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}