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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!
Key and New Features
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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Instructor Resources on CD provide detailed information on using, grading, and adapting the exercises. In addition the CD also includes commentary from the contributing authors explaining their experiences with the exercises, including how they promote specific learning goals and how current instructions to students facilitate the assignment. This CD-ROM features new components to the summary chart for instructors that indicate which assignments have web components, which have global aspects, and other criteria to help professors select the most useful exercises for their teaching needs. Qualified instructors may receive a copy by contacting SAGE at 1-800-818-SAGE (7243) between 6 am — 5 pm, PST.
Intended Audience
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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The Speed Discussion
The Speed Discussion
Rationale
It has been noted that we can learn more if we discuss things with others. Listening to just one voice in class (usually the instructor's) does not maximize our learning potential. Instead, we should strive to hear as many viewpoints as possible. Even if some people do not fully comprehend the material, hearing them articulate their confusion may help us (as well as them). This is particularly true in trying to decipher sociological theory. Many students are confused and turned off by the writings of classical sociological theorists. Not only do these older theorists often use an antiquated linguistic style but their arguments are complex, wordy, and rely on historical references that most students know little about. And yet, we still read classical theory in sociology because it helps us understand the social world we live in today. The challenge for teachers and learners is to decode these sociological theories and figure out how they are relevant to our everyday lives. The Speed Discussion was created to do just that. By fostering dialogue with an array of people, and by having students share with each other the various ways in which sociological theory relates to their everyday lives, the Speed Discussion will help the class develop a collective understanding of some key sociological theorists.
Instructions
Each member of the class will write a few sentences about some questions and then we will discuss our answers with each other in groups of two. Each group will discuss their answers for only three minutes, and then we will change partners and discuss the same question again with another partner. Once we have discussed each question with three people, we will move to the next question. We will continue in this fashion until we have discussed all of the questions with three different people. Please make sure that you introduce yourself to the other person.
Grading
See your instructor for details concerning how this assignment will be graded.
The Speed Discussion
Worksheet
Name: _____
Take a few minutes to write down some thoughts to the following questions:
- Karl Marx: In one of his famous quotes Marx said, “The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas.” Think about whether you agree or disagree with Marx and come up with an example or two to support your argument.
- Max Weber: Think of some situations where you obey authority. In these instances, do you obey this authority because of rational authority (formal rules), traditional authority (established beliefs), or charismatic authority (personal qualities of the leader)? Are there any instances where you obey authority for some other reason?
- W. E. B. DuBois: In one of the first sociological analyses on race, DuBois made the following statement: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.” Do you think this statement is still
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