Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This piece, written by Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen, “Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity.” In their new article, Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen examine the gendered nature of political toxicity.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Every few months, readers interested in higher education see yet another article on “college majors that lead to the highest incomes.” Declare a petroleum engineering major,” these articles imply, “and your future is secured.”. Very few of my own sociology students became professional sociologists. But it’s not that simple.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

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.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

When The Wall Street Journal published their article centered around [Louisiana State University's] lazy river , it became the canonical example of university services being run to excess, with lots of entrepreneurs stepping up to "unbundle" the university with faster/cheaper/better options.

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Digital Promise

JULY 24, 2015

candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. Often, scholarly research articles are expensive to purchase; for example, a single article from a top education journal on Google Scholar costs an average of $30. Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise and Sandra is a Ph.D.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Tressie McMillan Cottom, @tressiemcphd , tressiemc.com (sociology and higher education) . Visibility and reach: Journal articles v. They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Image credit: Social media class , mhmarketing. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

Natasha Warikoo, sociology professor, Tufts University. Rollins also noted what has become obvious to anyone who watched the Netflix documentary on Singer or read books and articles about the case: “The conduct in this case was something out of a Hollywood movie.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on unique courses. For other articles in this series, read here and here. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

The same attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning is taught in history, mathem­atics, science and sociology courses. This article was produced in partnership with Times Higher Education. Related: Column What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you! Anything less is potentially catastrophic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Richard Ingersoll, education and sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, detailed the numbers in “The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education,” a recent report published by the Albert Shanker Institute, a nonprofit organization endowed by the American Federation of Teachers, a union.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 26, 2024

She has published several books (authored and co-edited) and multiple articles on comparative law and courts, as well as on field research and research transparency. Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

Here’s how to implement Writing Blocks in your classroom: Select Mentor Sentences: Choose sentences from literature, articles, or exemplary student writing that demonstrate strong writing techniques. The appositive sentence structure is noun + comma + definition + comma + significance.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

I recently zoomed with Nick S tamoulacatos, Supervisor of Social Studies at Syracuse City School District and one of the writers on the article “Countering the Past of Least Resistance” in that latest Social Education. We talked about Syracuse City Schools inquiry initiative and the inquiry loop featured in the article.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

Immediately challenging student dispositions on tough subjects like race, for example, can be problematic and sometimes even achieve the opposite of what the teacher intended (for more on the strengths and weaknesses of racial education pedagogies see Ryan Crowley and William Smith’s excellent article on the topic*). What does this look like?

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. This article The skull maps that quantified racism is featured on Big Think. Ripley popularized the saying, “Africa starts at the Pyrenees.” ” ( Credit : William Z. railway policy.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This article discusses routes into teaching the subject. Most college lecturers in Scotland deliver the HNC or HND in Social Sciences (Higher National Certificate/Diploma – equivalent in level to 1st year or 2nd year of a degree respectively), including elements of Psychology but also of disciplines such as Politics and Sociology.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

Immediately challenging student dispositions on tough subjects like race, for example, can be problematic and sometimes even achieve the opposite of what the teacher intended (for more on the strengths and weaknesses of racial education pedagogies see Ryan Crowley and William Smith’s excellent article on the topic*). What does this look like?

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

Download a PDF of the article here.) This article Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live is featured on Big Think. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany. Got a strange map?

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

This article Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus is featured on Big Think. This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This piece, written by Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Marcel F. Jack Wippell is a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Then, using published articles as a lens, I document the historical increase in how epidemiologists (and more recently population health scholars) have used culture as an explanation, and in more detail how they use the term today.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Author’s note: “Aeroroute” is a composite term I introduce in this article to capture the unique material character of what Stuttgart locals call Frischluftzufuhr, Frischluftschneise, Kaltluftschneise, or Luftleitbahnen, all of which refer to a passage through which fresh and cool airs flow.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

percent more debt than their white peers, according to a 2018 article in the Journal of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Disparities in student debt accumulation are increasingly racialized. Black students struggle with 85.8 This gap grows over time, increasing by 6.7 percent each year after graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

By cutting 13 liberal arts majors, such as sociology, philosophy and history, UWSP would also create and expand several other majors in business, engineering and science to attract new students and revenue. Marcus wrote about this decline in a recent article for The Hechinger Report. million deficit. Wisniewski was shocked.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

Moreover, Owolabi’s extraordinary ability to reach across contexts, time periods, literatures and even disciplines ranging from political science and sociology to history and economics sets the book apart. Honors, University of Toronto, 2001), Latin American Studies (MPhil, Oxford University, 2003), and Political Science (PhD.,

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This piece, written by Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Tabitha Bonilla, “The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability.” In her recent APSR article, Tabitha Bonilla examines how partisan biases influence voter perceptions of accountability and promise-keeping.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As I state in the article: Ultimately the ‘controller’ is trying to impose their will on the target not by telling them what to think but by influencing their decision-making practices and their perceptions of reality.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s pretty fascinating, and there’s an article that we can share with you all later where you can see Du Bois taking on Hoffman. Find more on The Condemnation of Blackness , including related lessons, books, and articles, in our class resources post. Most recently, they’ve removed one of the Gen.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. The articles are undergoing peer review, so Ortiz cant share more than general details, but he describes them as case studies that feature partnerships with historically marginalized and under-represented groups in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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