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“A great source for kinesthetic learning activities. I've used the book for designing my course for multiple learning styles.”
—Megan Thiele, University of California, Irvine
This student workbook is designed to allow you to easily integrate multiple active learning exercises into your Introduction to Sociology courses. Many teachers want to use “active learning” in their class, but don't have the materials commensurate with that pedagogy. These 51 active learning exercises have been carefully selected from a nationwide search of the best class-tested active learning material available in sociology. Affordably priced, this workbook provides the best that sociology has to offer!
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Offers many fresh exercises—about 40% of the assignments are new to this edition; Features tear-out worksheets for ease of submission and grading; Presents a wide variety of exercises in terms of content, time required, usefulness for individual or group completion, and relevance for in-class or out-of-class practice
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The book is designed as the ideal active learning companion to virtually all Introduction to Sociology texts, making it an ideal supplemental text for any undergraduate Introduction to Sociology or Principles of Sociology course.
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Occupation and Income Exercise
Occupation and Income Exercise
Rationale
This exercise was designed to help you think about the reward systems in our society and the reasons for inequality of rewards for various occupations.
Why do we pay more for some jobs? Are these reward systems fair? Do they help the society, or do they in some ways create problems? Why do we think as we do about the differential in pay for various lines of work?
Instructions
On the following page you will find an “Occupation and Income” sheet. In groups of about four or five members, determine what you think would be appropriate levels for each of the listed occupations, with the total for all occupations not to exceed $500,000. This should not take more than 20 minutes or so.
When you finish, give a copy of your answers to the instructor. The instructor will then lead a discussion about the scores and after the discussion you may be asked to write a short analytical paper.
Grading
See your instructor for his or her plans for grading this exercise. If the instructor asks for a written paper, you will submit an essay (2–3 double-spaced typed pages) in which you will explain how inequality in the society is functional and how it is dysfunctional. Use concrete examples from the list you worked with and illustrate your essay by discussing discrepancies in pay for various occupations. The audience for this paper should be other college students who do not know the two sides of the argument.
Criteria for grading will be (1) your ability to articulate clearly and accurately the functionalist argument about inequality in society, (2) your ability to articulate clearly and accurately the conflict argument about social inequality, (3) clarity in the use of examples, and (4) control of the conventions of good writing so as not to jeopardize your credibility with the reader.
Occupation and Income
Worksheet
Name: _____
Your task is to decide how much income a person in each of the following occupations ought to receive. You will want to consider justice (fairness) and practicality (what will “work”) as you distribute income based on a fixed or limited pool of resources.
You have $500,000 total to distribute to the following male workers:
- Physician
- Loan officer
- Medical scientist
- Garbage/Refuse collector
- Elementary/Middle school teacher
- Telecommunications equipment installer
- Bus driver
- Jailor/Correctional officer
- Food service manager
- Emergency medical technician (EMT)
- Farm laborer or fisherman
- inequality
- rewards
- essays
- income
- pay
- exercise
- society
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