{"id":2887,"date":"2010-08-13T23:04:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T04:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2010-08-13T23:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T04:04:28","slug":"stuff-students-might-actually-want-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/08\/13\/stuff-students-might-actually-want-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff Students Might Actually Want to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/\">Kevin Kelly<\/a>, former Wired editor, has blessed us with a treasure trove <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/cooltools\/the-best-magazi.php\">of a top 100 list of good long-form magazine writing<\/a>.  He breaks it out by decade.  For social scientists seeking to get ideas across to undergraduates, this might serve two critical purposes: 1) getting students to read stuff that is longer than a blog post and 2) engaging students with key ideas in social science through clear, concise, and engaging writing (something we social scientists don&#8217;t come across much in our scholarly journals).    <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few gems:<\/p>\n<p>Vannevar Bush, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1969\/12\/as-we-may-think\/3881\/\">As We May Think<\/a>.&#8221; Atlantic Magazine, July 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Carson, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/1962\/06\/16\/1962_06_16_035_TNY_CARDS_000271256\">Silent Spring.<\/a>&#8221; The New Yorker, June 16, 1962. <\/p>\n<p>Hannah Arendt, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/1963\/02\/16\/1963_02_16_040_TNY_CARDS_000271829\">Eichmann in Jerusalem<\/a>.&#8221; The New Yorker. Part I: February 16, 1963; Part II: February 23, 1963; Part III: March 2, 1963; Part IV: March 9, 1963; Part V: March 16, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Schanberg, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F10916FC3959107788DDA90A94D9405B8084F1D3&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%22The+Death+and+Life+of+Dith+Pran+%22&amp;st=p\">THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DITH PRAN; A Story of Cambodia<\/a>&#8221; The New York Times Magazine, Sunday Magazine Special Section, January 20, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on.  The great part is that the vast majority of these articles are available on-line.  You could probably construct an entire lower-division social problems course just from this list.  What about you?  Do you use non-fiction magazine articles in your courses?  Is there a danger in overusing these types of pieces?  Does the narrative distract from the theory?  Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Kelly, former Wired editor, has blessed us with a treasure trove of a top 100 list of good long-form magazine writing. He breaks it out by decade. For social scientists seeking to get ideas across to undergraduates, this might serve two critical purposes: 1) getting students to read stuff that is longer than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8965,8971,8969,8966,8968,8970,8967],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arendt","tag-kevin-kelly","tag-magazine-writing","tag-rachel-carson","tag-sydney-schanberg","tag-top-100","tag-vannevar-bush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}