Learning Resources for Sociology Students
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Exploring Data links to rich data sources for addressing sociological questions.
Simulations create situations that resemble those found in real life in key respects. They then alter an important condition to see what happens under different circumstances.
Other Exercises involve thought experiments, games, or class exercises designed to illustrate sociological processes or concepts.
Films may reveal important sociological ideas, provide historical background, or permit close observation under controlled conditions.
Supplemental Resources include useful readings, examples, or photos.
Fun Stuff aims to show that sociology can be fun as well as informative.
- Using Census Data to Analyze your Neighborhood
- Activities Inventory Exercise
- A Comparative Look at the Death Penalty
- Themes: Scientific Basis, Social Institutions
- How Much Crime is There?
- Media Violence Research Project
- Network Exercise
- Religious Denominations in the United States
- Using Sociological Abstracts to Identify Primary Research Studies
- Sociological and Individualistic Explanations for Human Behavior
- Examining Poverty Using the Institute for Poverty Research and the Census
- Race and Ethnicity Data Exercise
- Trends in Violent Crime Data Exercise
- Hypothesis Testing
- Reliability and Validity
- Twenty Statements Test
- American Values in Print Media
- Causes and Consequences of Social Change
- Collective Behavior and Social Movements
- Deviance Theory Exercise
- Draw a Map Exercise
- Gender Socialization Lab/Fieldtrip
- Knowledge of the Hidden Rules of Social Class
- Life Happens: A Work, Class, and Access to Resources Exercise
- Theories of Social Change
- TV Media and Reality: An Observation