Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1177/0092055x231175174
Paul K. McClure
Across courses in the social sciences, instructors confront the challenge of how to teach (theories of) culture, yet no consensus exists as to what helps students best comprehend and digest its full complexity. This article offers a metaphorical and heuristic approach to culture that is accessible, multifaceted, and reflective of a wide range of important sociological theories and concepts. Five metaphors are introduced: culture as a training ground, battleground, playground, campground, and fairgrounds. Practical applications and suggestions for organizing a course around these five metaphorical grounds are discussed and outlined.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1177/0092055X231170749
Amanda Mireles
In this article, I ask to what extent first-generation college students experience statistics anxiety and what are effective pedagogical strategies for building student confidence and encouraging learning. To answer these questions, I draw on the wide-ranging and developing literature on blended teaching methods—most commonly defined as the integration of web-based activities and traditional face-to-face instruction—to design and implement an experiment measuring the effectiveness of providing varying supports in social statistics courses. Evidence from the experiment and learning reflections demonstrates that regardless of whether students experience statistics anxiety, at a minimum, reading comprehension supports have a statistically significant positive effect on first-generation college students’ learning (N = 46), and blended learning supports have a statistically significant positive effect for both first-generation and continuing-generation college students (N = 59). The positive and statistically significant effect of providing students with blended learning prelecture supports can counteract the negative and statistically significant effect of being a first-generation college student. These findings suggest that simple and effective pedagogical strategies can help better prepare students for exposure to new material, thereby encouraging greater overall learning in social statistics courses.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/0092055x231175254
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/0092055X231174516
A. Stough-Hunter, Kristi S. Lekies
Rural and first-generation students face unique challenges to accessing and persisting through college. While there is increasing literature on how to better serve first-generation college students, rural first-generation students have received far less attention. By associating student experiences with key concepts such as social groups, social class, inequality, community, and culture, sociology is well positioned to address the needs of first-generation rural students and enhance learning for all students. In this conversation piece, we will discuss the intersection of first-generation and rural identities and provide ideas for countering the urbancentric teaching of sociology and engaging rural first-generation students as assets at the classroom, faculty, department, and institutional levels.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/0092055X231172598
Heather-Ann Layth
First-generation and working-class (FGWC) students bring a different set of life experiences to the classroom than students of privilege. As an instructor from an FGWC background, I use the poverty simulation game Spent! to make economic stratification understandable to students who have led lives of economic privilege and bring FGWC representation to the classroom in a way that honors their unique cultural capital. Despite a tendency toward consciousness raising for students of privilege, poverty simulation can still be a liberatory learning exercise for FGWC students when the cultural capital they bring to the classroom from their lived experience is valued and honored during the activity rather than objectified and subordinated. During the activity, as privileged students express shock at the realities of living paycheck to paycheck, FGWC students confidently share their situated knowledge of poverty. Building on prior assessments of the value of simulation games in the classroom, this article expands this knowledge by specifically looking at the experiences of FGWC students in addition to their more privileged peers in the context of Spent!
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/0092055X231174511
Florence Emilia Castillo, Gustavo García, Alejandro Mendiaz Rivera, Ana Paula Milán Hinostroza, Natalia M. Toscano
El Puente Research Fellowship is a transformative program that uses culturally relevant and reflective pedagogies, curriculum, and praxis for first-generation, working-class college students beyond the traditional classroom. Drawing on the Chicana/Latina feminist epistemologies of plática and convivencia, we argue that the practice of convivencia facilitates a relational and collective learning environment that allows students to learn from one another, build relationships of authentic caring, and support one another academically and holistically. Through our plática, we illuminate the ways convivencia manifests in our pedagogical and curricular approaches. As a teaching framework, the implementation of convivencia in classes, research programs, and learning environments paves the way for new forms of teaching and learning that value and center collective and cultural learning practices from the home. We conclude with practical tools, strategies, and reformulations of classroom environments that can be applied in sociology classrooms and beyond.
El Puente研究奖学金是一个变革性的项目，为第一代工人阶级大学生提供与文化相关和反思的教学法、课程和实践，超越传统课堂。借鉴plática和convivencia的墨西哥/拉丁女性主义认识论，我们认为convivencia的实践促进了一种关系和集体学习环境，使学生能够相互学习，建立真正的关怀关系，并在学术上和整体上相互支持。通过我们的plática，我们阐明了便利在我们的教学和课程方法中体现的方式。作为一种教学框架，在课堂、研究项目和学习环境中实施便利为重视和重视家庭集体和文化学习实践的新形式的教学和学习铺平了道路。我们总结了实用的工具、策略和课堂环境的重塑，这些可以应用于社会学课堂及其他领域。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/0092055X231174515
Michel Estefan, J. Selbin, Sarah Macdonald
Current approaches to building inclusive classrooms for first-generation and working-class students tend to emphasize communicative strategies: receiving students with welcoming messages that acknowledge and value their life experience and promoting a growth mindset. These methods are important, but they do little to address structural sources of exclusion, such as academic inequities and disadvantages in resources like time. Communicative strategies alone secure inclusion without equity. Equity, however, involves teaching and learning activities that promote fair treatment and access at a structural level in order to offer students a concrete path to classroom success. In this article, we develop a framework for designing assignments and learning activities that addresses the type of structural barriers that most affect first-generation, working-class, and racially minoritized students. We identify three distinct types of structural disadvantages—academic inequities, resource disadvantages, and cultural discrimination—and propose three strategies for equitable design: deliberative interdependence, transformative translation, and proactive engagement. We illustrate each strategy with concrete teaching methods. We conclude by suggesting that only a transformative, comprehensive shift to equity mindedness is capable of doing justice to the increasing diversity of college classrooms.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/0092055X231174512
N. B. Oehmen, Jennifer Haylett, L. Belt, J. Clark
In this article, we investigate the college teaching experiences of four first-generation and working-class (FGWC) sociology educators with varying social locations. We used collaborative autoethnography to compare our backgrounds and university navigational strategies employed and shared with our students and mentees. Using an intersectional lens, we find our experiences reflect both commonalities and divergences in the FGWC experience, including disclosure of our FG and/or WC origin status to students and our perceptions of how race, gender, and parental status shape our teaching of sociology across differing institutional settings. We end by using insights gleaned from comparing our experiences to provide recommendations for creating more inclusive classroom and institutional environments.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1177/0092055x231175180
Stacey Livingstone
Graduate students face obstacles when attempting to pursue public sociology in general, but specifically when they desire to utilize public sociology as both a research and teaching orientation that fully incorporates undergraduate students. Drawing on a two-year public sociology project on student financial security challenges, the author advocates for graduate students interested in public sociology to engage in campus collaborations, where connections between undergraduate students and campus partners are forged based on relevant campus resources easily accessible to graduate students. Based on the specifics of the author’s campus collaboration, six tips emerge for graduate students interested in replicating this approach to public sociology early in their careers. Gaining familiarity with conducting public sociology that fully incorporates undergraduate students in graduate school, a model that has been shown to benefit students, community partners, and sociology as a discipline, will prepare graduate student instructors to implement the model when they become faculty.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1177/0092055x231169754
Elizabeth Culatta, Melissa Powell-Williams, Kim Davies
Educators have recently highlighted the importance of social science courses for students entering the medical field. This has led to the inclusion of sociological theories and concepts on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), a requirement for any student seeking formal medical training. Using open-ended survey data responses provided by students who recently completed the MCAT, we explore how students perceive that sociology courses prepare them for the MCAT and their lives more generally. We find that students report that their sociology courses introduced them to key concepts and laid a foundation for material assessed on the exam, but those courses could improve by aligning with the MCAT structure by prioritizing application of concepts and critically analyzing case studies. Students also reported that sociology courses helped them develop empathy and inclusivity and use their sociological imaginations, which will ultimately positively impact their careers in the medical field and lives overall.
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