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POLICE KILLING OF BLACKS: Do Black Lives Matter?

Updated June 19, 2020, with data from 2015-2019 Data collected by the Washington Post on the … Read More

CLIMATE JUSTICE: Tools for teaching

Climate change is not just an environmental issue, it is an issue of inequality, environmental justice, globalization, and consumption – … Read More

SOCIOLOGY TOOLBOX: The year in review

Our mantra here at Sociology Toolbox, has never been more important: TEACH WELL, IT MATTERS. One this last day of … Read More

TEACHING EXCEL BASICS WITH 2016 POLICE LETHAL FORCE DATA: A resource for methods

Teaching quantitative methods and data analysis can be tedious, but I have found that using sociological and “headline-relevant” data, such as … Read More

A PATH TO MOBILITY? How universities maintain the class structure

Going to college is sold as the primary pathway to upward economic mobility, but is that true? In today’s world, … Read More

MASS INCARCERATION: DATA, TRENDS, AND COMPARISON

Staggering rates of mass incarceration are impacting minority communities disproportionally and it is the consequence of … Read More

GLOBALIZATION: MEASURING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

When most people think about “globalization” they likely think about the global economy. In the more recent era, globalization was pushed … Read More

MINIMUM WAGE: DO WE UNDERSTAND THAT REALITY?

What does it mean to live on minimum wage in the US? For any student readers of this blog, you … Read More

ON MLK DAY 2014, WHAT HAS CHANGED? NOT ENOUGH.

Unfortunately, for many Americas, the perception may be that the person and issues behind the holiday honoring the birth of … Read More

THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: AWAKENING IT BY VIEWING OTHER CULTURES

UPDATED: September 18, 2017 Being embedded in the structures and culture of one’s society can make it more difficult to … Read More