VCU Sociology

good class prompt

we do this mini project in my undergrad race class on how residential segregation isn't "natural" but made. i always use the "what bus can you take to short pump? and when does it stop running?" example. this read has some links for me to add to their background reading

we see, for example, innovative school programs showing great success in serving immigrant English language learner high school students, we may want to know more about the nuances and factors in place. Such findings will help develop more contextualized understandings of how the programs actually work to improve youth outcomes. With such deeper understandings, study findings may be more likely to inform interventions in other settings or encourage policy or funding decisions to support program expansion.

pairs nicely with walmart crime story for teaching all kinds of things: deviance, (gendered) violence, crime, power studies, entrepreneurial state

The walmart story. So many uses. 

causal diagrams