I underline and highlight as I read and scribble copious notes in the margins of books (or sometimes, particularly in a book that I used for teaching, on a color-coded series of sticky notes that ...

This site provides historical information for Purdue University Courses taken between 1970-2008. Complete course descriptions are available for most courses taken from 2001 to Spring of 2008. If the ...

SOCIOLOGY is achieving maturity as a discipline. Its increased recognition in American as distinct from most British universities is indicated by the appearance of university text-books. Whether as a ...

Teaching about violence has pedagogical value in Intro class but it needs to be done with care! Check out what Hatton, Upadhyay, and Williams suggest about the use of violence contents in 22 popular ...

(1)“THE ‘unit’ in sociology is the group.” Throughout this “Introduction to Sociology” the author holds fast to this basal conception, and amid his many excursions into varied fields of study he is ...

Teaching Sociology publishes articles, notes, and reviews intended to be helpful to the discipline's teachers. Articles range from experimental studies of teaching and learning to broad, synthetic ...

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Description: A survey course designed to introduce the student to the scene of human society. Fundamental concepts, description, and analysis of society, culture, the socialization process, social ...