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Technologies for governing healthy bodies: “surveillance medicine” and public health

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

In this fourth post I will discuss how we can approach public health strategies as “technologies of government” which, like the devices discussed in my previous post, helped to construct the truth of the situation as well as providing a means to intervene in it and exert control and power. Armstrong, D. Petersen, AR. and Lupton, D.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”) Credit: Laura Pappano for the Hechinger Report For Prof. What’s next?”

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice. A barrage of how-to videos were posted on websites the world over.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. This is his third year in the profession. John and Paula were in the same AP U.S. History class.

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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

Former NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz writes about a related trend in her latest column for Hechinger: Colleges embedding climate-related content into all sorts of classes — sociology, history, English literature, French. “We What I’m reading The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Sign up for the climate and education newsletter.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Some students are even afraid to apply for scholarships, not wanting to risk entering their personal information in databases they fear may fall into the hands of the federal government. “I

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well.