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Sociology OER PowerPoints

ShortCutsTV

If you’re interested in free textbooks – of either the Sociology or Psychology variety – you may well have come across the Openstax Introduction to Sociology textbook published by Lumen Learning. And if you haven’t Openstax is an example of a growing field in education called OER (Open Educational Resources).

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Sociology Film Club

ShortCutsTV

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective. It is not one size fits all’.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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Learn more about: “Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project”

Political Science Now

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A.

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Reimagining Neanderthals: Ludovic Slimak's Insights into Human Evolution and Coexistence

Anthropology.net

Instead, Slimak argues for a more holistic approach that focuses on understanding Neanderthals as individuals with their own unique culture and identity. We have fragmented human knowledge into various disciplines—anthropology, psychology, sociology—but none of these fragments fully encompass what it means to be human.”

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Journal of Instructional Psychology, 37(3), 193–199. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 204–218. The authors expand on the first qualifier of accuracy with preference in voice. link] Corriveau, K.

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