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How to Apply Your Degree in Sociology to Any Career 

Norton Learning - Sociology

Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses primarily on moral panics, youth, and popular culture, and she is editor of the Everyday Sociology Reader (W. Norton, 2020).

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Why Schools Should Focus on Social Capital Development — Not Just Skills

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Interestingly enough, researchers in other sectors (including economics, public health and sociology) have explored similar theories and found that social capital can improve more than just access to higher education and job opportunities, as one might expect. Yosso published her seminal Race Ethnicity and Education article in 2005.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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OPINION: Community policing, college courses and other ways forward for the nation’s largest police force

The Hechinger Report

In a recent article looking at the challenges of police education across the nation, The Hechinger Report’s Caroline Preston called it “a moment of reckoning” that was leading some of those who train and educate police “to examine their role in preparing officers for a profession responsible for so much senseless violence.”. Can it be fixed?

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Worldview

Anthropology for Beginners

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

The earliest of these village descriptions, Redfield's Tepoztlan (1930), emerged out of a concern with the 'human ecology' of communities, which marked the school of urban sociology developed at the University of Chicago under the auspices of Redfield's father-in-law, Robert E. in fact he was talking about 'peasants' [1967:4].

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How Students Use Unofficial Online Backchannels for Classes

ED Surge

But students can be reluctant to use these sanctioned channels, or to show up in person for office hours, says Megan McNamara, a continuing lecturer in sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She says she used a Discord server as a student recently, in an online course she took at the campus. “I

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