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color:#1F497D'>I would also use some of the public access databases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><a href="http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss06">http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss06</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> Department of
Sociology<br>
North Park University<br>
3225 W. Foster Ave.<br>
Chicago, IL 60625<br>
773.244.5591<br>
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11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <a
href="BLOCKED::mailto:fsteinhart@northpark.edu"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>fsteinhart@northpark.edu</span></a></span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Robert E. Phelan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 30, 2009 3:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Robert E. Phelan'; 'George W. Dowdall, Ph.D.';
citasa@list.citasa.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CITASA] Suggestions for teaching introductory sociology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Sorry, “… more important NOW than ever
before…” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Point your students toward the “discussion” tab of the
wiki sites… the main tab is simply “consensus” science,
or the beliefs of whoever managed to start the discussion first. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>One thing I did try but was not really successful with…
partly because the class was too large… trying to use a Blackboard Site
as a collaboration tool… in one deviance class the “Term
Paper” part of the class was to produce a research proposal to investigate
“plagiarism”… the students were to formulate a proposal
independently, publish it on the Blackboard site for comment by their
“colleagues”, but then collaborate on the research method and
questions. The Blackboard site allowed them to post articles and references
that might be of interest to their research community and allowed them to
comment on it. However, thirty-five students taking a sociology course
because they needed three credits of social science at a convenient time may
not be the best venue for this approach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>R.E. Phelan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Robert E. Phelan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'George W. Dowdall, Ph.D.'; citasa@list.citasa.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CITASA] Suggestions for teaching introductory sociology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Professor Dowdall:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>If you’ve got reliable, fast internet access, introduce them
to sites with data: the census bureau, CDC, FBI uniform crime report, Labor
Department… then ask them to resolve a question during class: e.g.
“Reverend Wright made the often reported claim that there are more young
black men in jail than in college. Is this true?” Statistics at the
Dept of Justice and Dept of Education will begin to answer the question, but of
course, there may be a discrepancy between the ages of people in jail than
people in college… and we have to let them know that one year does not
make a trend… but our courses should be teaching empiricism and a
critical attitude toward data. I used to regard Michel Foucault as a French
Flake… the ability to track down data, critique it and use it to critique
the existing order is more important know than ever before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>R.E. Phelan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Itinerant Scholar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>George W. Dowdall, Ph.D.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 29, 2009 10:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> citasa@list.citasa.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CITASA] Suggestions for teaching introductory sociology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>At the very last minute, I've been asked to teach a
small introductory sociology course in a well-stocked PC lab. Can
anyone point me to interesting ways of teaching this
course using Internet and PC resources in live time?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>George<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>George W. Dowdall, Ph.D.<br>
Professor of Sociology, Saint Joseph's University,<br>
Philadelphia PA 19131. 610-660-1674. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>College Drinking: Reframing a Social Problem (2009)<br>
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9981.aspx <o:p></o:p></p>
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