While the impetus for becoming an educator began in
a sociology class at the University of California, at Berkeley, her educational training and philosophies were formed at Teachers College with Dr. Maxine Greene and Dr. Thomas Sobol, the former teaching her the importance of the imagination and the latter, reminding her that the center of our work as educators is always our students.
When I met Nicole in
my Sociology class at Irvine Valley College last fall, I was immediately intrigued by the array of outfits she wore each week.
The Baylor research focused on a class of 218 students in an introductory
sociology class at Baylor, a private research university of about 15,000 students.
Not exact matches
A 2005
Sociology of Education study called «The Frog Pond Revisited: High School Academic Context,
Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances
at an elite college.
While there are a few who are vocal, like Against Equality, there is «a generation of upper - middle -
class white lesbians and gays» who are «already enamored by the idea of marriage,» says Laurie Essig, a professor of
sociology at Middlebury College, in the Salon article Will marriage change gay love?
I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level
Sociology of Medicine
class that was an in depth look
at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.
Reich, a professor of
Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
at CU Denver, found that middle and upper
class «vaccine - refusers» are mothers who have the resources, education, and time to make decisions regarding vaccinations.
Classes numbering hundreds of students — particularly in introductory courses — have become common
at many universities, said researchers Kevin Dougherty, Ph.D., associate professor of
sociology in Baylor's College of Arts and Sciences, and Brita Andercheck, a doctoral candidate in
sociology at Baylor.
It wasn't until Ihad a wider range of possibilities
at mydisposal that I was able to say, «I likepsychology,
sociology, anthropology.I like these
classes, and I want to learn.I'm curious about this stuff and I want toknow more about it.»
When Baer was earning a master's in
sociology at Harvard, he took a
class about visual and media studies that changed his life.
Jessica Piekielek, who teaches
sociology and anthropology
at Southern Oregon University, has taken advantage of the calculator in her Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
class to talk about global population growth, development, and social inequality.
Dr. Frank Furedi,
Sociology professor
at the University of Canterbury, said the study made sense as chore sharing took place more among couples from middle
class professional backgrounds, where divorce rates are known to be high.