Read and watch the related video “Cut in Food Stamps Forces Hard Choices on Poor” at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/us/cut-in-food-stamps-forces-hard-choices-on-poor.html? pagewanted=2&_r=0&src=rechp and read “Food Stamp Cut Backed ...
Bucks, Brian K., Arthur B. Kennickell, and Kevin B. Moore (with Gerhard Fries and A. Michael Neal). 2006. “Recent Changes in U.S. Family Finances: Evidence from the 2001 and 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances.” Federal Reserve Board.
In the following paragraphs, sociologist Scott Myers-Lipton describes how he and students in his courses sparked a social movement to address the poverty and suffering in Louisiana.
Jansen, J. (2011, December 23). The civic and community engagement of religiously active Americans (Pew Internet & American Life Project). ... D. (2013, September 2). Young students against bad science. 222——The Engaged Sociologist.
Listen to “'Hope's Boy,' a Memoir of Childhood in Foster Care” at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=68349288, and then answer the following questions: 1. What is the position in the economic institution of most people ...
This was painfully apparent after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator in Sanford, Florida, was declared not guilty of shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager walking back to his father's condominium ...
Discusses the idea of "public sociology," wherein students come to understand the connections between sociology, democracy, and civic engagement.
This concise text for carries the public sociology movement into the introductory sociology classroom.
This concise text for carries the public sociology movement into the introductory sociology classroom.