• Your ecological footprint
• Stereotypes about college
students
• Diversity in your state
legislature
• Paid and unpaid leave in
21 countries
• A religious service outside your
own faith
• The organization of your local
school board
• Norms and symbols associated
with different sports
• Whether certain family forms are
privileged on your campus
• Impression
management on social
media
• Race relations on
television shows
• Attitudes toward
same-sex marriage
• Gender messages in
magazines
• Health care spending,
doctor visits, and life
expectancy data
• The life cycle of
consumer products
("stuff")
• Race, ethnicity, and
social mobility data
• Statistical, legalistic, and normative
approaches to deviance
• Labeling theory to a village of registered
sex offenders
• The dramaturgical perspective to a
social event
• Educational theory to issues faced by a
high school principle
• The defi nitions of "concepts" and "variables"
• Racial categories to photos of strangers
• A refugee integration plan
for your campus
• Ideas for a new product
called "man candles"
• Strategies to inform
different audiences about
climate change
• Is "slacktivism" effective?
• What do we learn about gender as children?
• What would my life have been like 100 years ago
in this society?
• How do celebrities shape our defi nition of a
"feminist"?
• Is there an ideal grade distribution in a classroom?
• Is the "obesity epidemic" a moral panic?
Wake up your sociology class!
Sociology in Action
Kathleen Odell Korgen and Maxine P. Atkinson
Learn more at sagepub.com
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