It has been a big week. Thank you to everyone who read and shared my thoughts on status, poverty, and culture. As with my thoughts on gender, race, and Miley Cyrus, I thought the piece a narrow meditation with very limited readership potential. Just goes to show that I do not have much of anRead More “On Writing and Teaching and Going Viral”
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My Syllabus for “Class, Status, Power”
As I mentioned before, I teach stratification. I approach syllabi kind of like I approach the Constitution. It is a living, breathing, collaborative document constantly under revision for attention to different voices and standpoints. The trick is always balancing that against a necessary framework that cannot be totally negotiated away. There is some appeal toRead More “My Syllabus for “Class, Status, Power””
On Mentorship and Advice
I participate in a lot of college prep programs designed to help minority and first-generation students navigate academia. I also take any survey someone shoves in my face and answer any call for research participants for which I may be even remotely qualified. I do all of the above because of where I exist alongRead More “On Mentorship and Advice”
Crowdsourcing a New Syllabus: Teaching Contemporary Stratification
Along with speaking, writing, researching, consulting and mocking professional pundits that wear ascots, I also teach. I am very excited to be writing a syllabus for a stratification course, to be taught in the Spring. I took to Twitter earlier today to crowdsource some of the excellent sociology tools that have floated across my timelineRead More “Crowdsourcing a New Syllabus: Teaching Contemporary Stratification”
Twitter Tactics Talk at Emory’s Center for Injury Control
The regular readers know that I make a habit of posting powerpoints before a talk. I find it saves participants from copious note-taking. That makes for a more engaged room. [slideshare id=22973450&style=border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px&sc=no] Ecictt from Tressie McPhd In the presentation I mention several resources. They follow: #followanadult London School of Economics TwitterRead More “Twitter Tactics Talk at Emory’s Center for Injury Control”
“A Letter From Birmingham Jail” Was an Op-Ed: Teaching Voice & Social Justice
That’s how I now start my talk on social justice, voice, and opinion writing: “A young preacher wrote a letter in a Birmingham jail. It was published in the New York Sunday Post, in part, the following week. That letter from Martin Luther King Jr. has gone on to have quite an impact. Thats anRead More ““A Letter From Birmingham Jail” Was an Op-Ed: Teaching Voice & Social Justice”
Power in the Classroom
I am not sure I say it often enough because research is, as a doctoral student, my number one job but I love teaching. I hate grading but I could teach all day long if my voice would hold up. I actually do not know that I could conduct research were I not teaching. TheRead More “Power in the Classroom”
Sociology and the “Queen of Versailles”
I am a bit of a documentary film fan. It’s a recent development so don’t ask me my feelings on “Paris is Burning” or “Tongues United”. I tend to start at “Hoop Dreams” and “Roger & Me” and work my way forward. It took 45 seconds of the “Queen of Versailles” trailer for me toRead More “Sociology and the “Queen of Versailles””