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Mission Statement: TS publishes articles, notes, and reviews intended to be helpful to the discipline's teachers. Articles range from experimental studies of teaching and learning to broad, synthetic essays on pedagogically important issues. Notes focus on specific teaching issues or techniques. The general intent is to share theoretically stimulating and practically useful information and advice with teachers. Formats include full-length articles; notes of 10 pages or less; interviews, review essays; reviews of books, films, videos, and software; and conversations.

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“Laughing Matters”: The Comedian as Social Observer, Teacher, and Conduit of the Sociological Perspective by Shawn Chandler Singham and Alex A. Hernandez (October 2009)

Denying Social Harm: Students’ Resistance to Lessons about Inequality by Sherryl Kleinman and Martha Copp (July 2009)

“I’ll Take Ideology for $200, Alex”: Using the Game Show Jeopardy! to Facilitate Sociological and Critical Thinking by Dan Pence (April 2009)

The Sociological Imagination and Social Responsibility by Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt and Lora Ebert Wallace (January 2009)

You Think You Know Ghetto? Contemporizing the Dove “Black IQ Test” by Kenneth H. Laundra and Tracy N. Sutton (October 2008)

The Ethics of Observing: Confronting the Harm of Experiential Learning by Joshua S. Meisel (July 2008)

The Converging Landscape of Higher Education: Perspectives, Challenges, and a Call to the Discipline of Sociology by Bernice A. Pescosolico (April 2008)

Critical Pedagogy in the Sociology Classroom: Challenges and Concerns by Catherine Fobes and Peter Kaufman (January 2008)

Teaching Affirmative Action: An Opportunity to Apply, Integrate, and Reinforce Sociological Concepts by Susanne Bohmer and Kayleen U. Oka (October 2007)

The Social Construction of Social Facts: Using the U.S. Census to Examine Race as a Scientific and Moral Category by Eleanor Townsley (July 2007)

Breaking Ground: Engaging Undergraduates in Social Change through Service Learning by Catherine Mobley (April 2007)

Profile of an Engaged Sociology Major

Teaching Against the Text: The Case of Qualitative Methods by Jane C. Hood (July 2006)

Transmitting Tricks of the Trade: Advisors and the Development of Research Knowledge by Erin Leahy (April 2006)

Integrating Data Analysis: Working with Sociology Departments to Address the Quantitative Literacy Gap by Carla Howery and Havidan Rodriguez (January 2006; special issue on "Cultivating Quantitative Literacy")

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Improving the Assessment of Student Learning: Advancing a Research Agenda in Sociology by Gregory L. Weiss, Janet R. Cosbey, Shelley K. Habel, Chad M. Hanson, and Carolee Larsen (January 2002)

Recent Changes in Higher Education and Their Ethical Implications by Thomas Van Valey (January 2000) (members only)

Targeting Sociology on the Internet Using Gateway Directories
by Annette Haines (July 1999) (members only)

by Kathleen McKinney and Laura Reed (January 2007)

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