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Teaching Online (Rafalow, Medley-Rath & Silva)

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The COVID-19 crisis thrust the academy into teaching online. In this episode, we talk to three colleagues with expertise in online pedagogy.

Matthew Rafalow is a social scientist at Google who earned his doctorate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is an ethnographer who specializes in human-machine interactions, and currently leads a research program on streaming experiences at Google.

Stephanie Medley-Rath is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indiana University Kokomo, and is incoming Chair of the ASA’s Section of Teaching and Learning in Sociology.

Derek Silva is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at King’s University College. He has a forthcoming article in Teaching Sociology on the use of podcasts in pedagogy, and hosts the podcast What’s That Noise?

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The Moral Obligation to Succeed in College (Daniel Chambliss)

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The Moral Obligation to Succeed in College (Daniel Chambliss)
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Daniel Chambliss is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College. He recently co-published How College Works (with Christopher G. Takacs) with Harvard University Press.

Today, we discuss his recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Go Ahead, Drop My Course“, which discusses the professional philosophy of dealing with students who aren’t interested in sociology or college.

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Making Money and Getting Follows in Class

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Making Money and Getting Follows in Class
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We discuss the ethics of assigning books and rewarding social media follows in your classes. The topic is discussed through the case of Mitchell Huynh, an adjunct instruction from a University of Toronto finance department who gives his students credit for following him on social media, buying his textbook, and having him autograph it.

Our panel includes Clayton Childress (University of Toronto), Patrick Reilly (University of California, Irvine), Gabriel Rossman (UCLA), and Joseph Cohen (CUNY Queens College).

Meet the Social Breakdown Podcast (Meiser, Patumsinchai & Bird)

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Meet the Social Breakdown Podcast (Meiser, Patumsinchai & Bird)
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Today, we meet the gang from a great teaching-oriented sociology podcast, The Social Breakdown, and the three University of Hawaii sociologists who developed it: Ellen Meiser, Penn Patumsinchai, and Omar Bird. We talk about their show, and academic podcasting more generally.

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Chinese Students in U.S. Schools (Yingyi Ma)

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Chinese Students in U.S. Schools (Yingyi Ma)
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Today, we meet Yingyi Ma from Syracuse University. Yingyi recently published Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education with Columbia University Press. We discuss the challenges facing college students from China, and how to create learning environments that can help them succeed.

Teaching Classical Theory (Seth Abrutyn)

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Today, we talk to Seth Abrutyn from the University of British Columbia. Seth teaches graduate classical theory in UBC’s sociology program, and recently caught attention on Twitter for his views about the role of classical sociology in the contemporary sociology graduate curriculum. He published a blog post on the topic here.

Seth is best known for his work on suicide with Anna Mueller from Indiana University at Bloomington. You can catch his earlier podcast episode on this work here.

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On Amy Wax’s Comments about Black Students

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A Penn law professor comments that black students perform poorly. What are we to make of it?

Using Offensive Words in Class

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We discuss the case of Lawrence Rosen, who sparked controversy by using N-word in a class on hate speech.

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