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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

Loaded-definitions aside, I think we are focusing on the wrong thing here. There have been course-grained sociological studies on students perceptions of AI (e.g. 2023, and Ouyang et al., 2022, among many). Even with this growing fan club for correct AI use, educators seem to universally want to prohibit bad AI use.

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Definition of the Situation: The Thomas Theorem

ShortCutsTV

The Thomas Theorem, created by W.I.Thomas and his wife Dorothy (The Child in America, 1928), is a simple and interesting way to introduce students to the social constructionist / Interactionist approach in Sociology, for a couple of reasons: Firstly, the Theorem – “It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct, if we […] (..)

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Decanonizing the Introduction to Sociology Text

Norton Learning - Sociology

An accomplished scholar, award-winning teacher, and public sociologist, she has become well known for delivering conversational yet compelling translations of sociological theory and research.

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Tears, confusion and financial woes as colleges abruptly end semesters and send students home

The Hechinger Report

have announced transitions to online learning, they can’t definitively answer many of these questions, nor can they say when and if students will return to campus. And more immediately, where would they store all their books, clothing and belongings? As colleges across the U.S.

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STUDENT VOICE: ‘I never imagined that I’d attend a four-year college, especially not while raising and supporting a son’

The Hechinger Report

I definitely had a lot of self-doubt, but my grades got better as I acclimated and found my way. After obtaining her bachelor of arts in sociology, she hopes to pursue a master’s degree and become an academic counselor. College was so hard, but I went two years straight with no semesters off, giving it all the grit I had.

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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. A briefing paper on issues of definition.

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Worldview

Anthropology for Beginners

Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Horton, Robin 1960 A Definition of Religion and Its Uses. Kluckhohn, Clyde 1951 Values and Value-orientations in the Theory of Action: An Exploration in Definition and Classification. Mendelson 1956): 1. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3.