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—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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Parenthood: Defining Family

Parenthood: Defining Family

Parenthood: Defining family
JudyAulette, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Rationale

Child custody cases present difficult challenges. Deciding who should raise a child makes us question our ideas about what being a real parent is. Social factors such as the time, care, and physical support that adults give to children are critical issues. Biology has also played an important role in our deliberations about custody. But even biology can be confusing with the development of new technologies that enable eggs and sperm to be stored, eggs to be fertilized outside the human body, and women who are not the egg donor to carry the pregnancy to term and deliver the baby. Furthermore, the biological relationship between a mother and baby and a father and baby is different. Males and females contribute similar genetic material, but females also endure the pregnancy and deliver the baby. This assignment, therefore, is designed to make you think about what a “real parent” is and how we can best decide who should raise a child when there are competing parties.

Instructions

Listen to the lecture and/or do the reading on Baby M. Imagine that you are the judge in the case. To whom would you award the child? Would you give the child to Mary Beth Whitehead, to Bill and Betsy Stern, or to someone else? Write your answers on the worksheet explaining what your decision would be and why you reached that judgment. What are the most important facts in the case?

Grading

See your instructor for details concerning how this assignment will be graded.

Parenthood: Defining Family

Worksheet

Name: _____

  • To whom would you award Baby M?
  • On what basis did you reach that decision?
  • What are the most important factors in the case?
  • eggs
  • pregnancy
  • children
  • biology
  • parenting
  • 'us and them'
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