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The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
The Society Pages
TSP brings social science to broader public visibility and influence. The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and supported by individual donors. TSP consists of in-house “TSP HQ” articles, blogs, and podcasts; our “Community Pages”; and content produced by our partners.
Daniel Silver reads Georg Simmel - Give Theory A Chance
2024年11月17日 · In this episode, Dr. Daniel Silver, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life (2020), joins us to discuss and read from Georg Simmel’s Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms (first published in 1908). Be sure to check out Dan’s co-authored essay on Simmel’s three concepts of form ...
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2024年10月10日 · Barbed and razor wire, chain link fence, and a security camera in a somber gray. Image by Pixabay under Pexels license.. Youth (10-17 year-olds) today who commit crimes in the United States are typically processed through the juvenile justice system because of the Juvenile Justice Reform Act.Initially passed in 1974, the law set some common standards for separating youth and adults in the ...
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Wyant and Bowen (2018) suggest using book clubs to help students apply sociological concepts to real-world examples. Their study highlights that book clubs positively affect student attitudes and learning outcomes across various course settings.
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2024年3月22日 · Intro textbooks typically devote little attention to environmental sociology. Check out this The Society Pages post from 2019 on helping students think sociologically about climate change. Link to a module you can use in your Intro class included!
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The article “Community-Engaged Research: What It Is and Why It Matters” appears in the Winter 2022 issue of Footnotes published by the American Sociological Association At least since the movement emerged in the early 2000s, I’ve been a proponent and …
Clippings – November 18th, 2024 TSP Media Report - The Society …
2024年11月18日 · The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint ran a story on the experiences of agricultural workers in California (about 75% of whom are undocumented migrants) during the election year. Manuel Ortiz Escámez (Audio-Visual Sociologist and co-founder of Peninsula 360) commented on the impact of immigration as an election issue.“People are very afraid,” he said. “Power in politics needs to invent a ...
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Ten short years ago, same-sex marriage produced deep divisions within American society. The majority of Americans opposed granting legal recognition to gay and lesbian couples, and politicians seemed to play tug-of-war with the issue as it suited their needs.
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2024年4月24日 · Jordyn is a first year PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota. Her interests lie on the perpetuation of gender inequality across intersecting dimensions of culture, media, race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and family.