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The Debt Divide: The Racial and Class Bias Behind the "New Normal" of Student Borrowing... - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 14 Sep 15
     
    The Debt Divide: The Racial and Class Bias Behind the "New Normal" of Student Borrowing
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Global Health and Social Media | An open course by the Center for Media+Health at Virgi... - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 12 Sep 15
     
    I've been sharing this one on the Twitters and Facebook.
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Working-Class Perspectives | Commentary on Working-Class Culture, Education, and Politics - 0 views

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  • For example, he cites a National Science Board study that shows that of the 19.5 million STEM degree holders, only 5.4 million actually work in those fields.
  • The precariat, including STEM workers, are losing control over their time and the use of their capabilities, which represents a different situation than what the proletariat faced 150 years ago. Standing writes, that “the precariat has distinctive relations of production, or labour relations they [flit] in and out of jobs, often with incomplete contracts or forced into indirect labour relationships via agencies or brokers.” In essence, the precariat can be seen largely as a class of contingent workers regardless of education level.
  • Tressie Cottom on 12 Sep 15
     
    I like this one, David.
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A Guide to Writing a Senior Thesis in Sociology - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 12 Sep 15
     
    It's Harvard. It's a handout for undergrad senior theses. But, I think it is a good model of the kind of information we discussed preparing for our MA students on writing a thesis. I believe it has CC license so we can crib a bit. I'd love to see a VCU branded version of this for Sociology.
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Sociology - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 12 Sep 15
     
    This handout introduces you to the wonderful world of writing sociology. Before you can write a clear and coherent sociology paper, you need a firm understanding of the assumptions and expectations of the discipline. You need to know your audience, the way they view the world and how they order and evaluate information.
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Thesis Statements.pdf - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 12 Sep 15
     
    Helpful handout for how to write a thesis statement from "Writing for Sociology". I am finding it very useful for upper division students in my writing intensive courses.
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The End of the Internet Dream? - Backchannel - Medium - 1 views

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  • Over the next 20 years software will be embedded in everything, from refrigerators to cars to medical devices.Without the Freedom to Tinker, the right to reverse engineer these products, we will be living in a world of opaque black boxes.
  • In the next 20 years we need to get ready to smash the Internet apart and build something new and better.
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    "people of color and women are naturally inclined to be hackers. We learn early on that the given rules don't work for us, and that we have to manipulate them to succeed, even where others might wish us to fail."
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A moment on the world stage · Industries | Virginia Business - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 09 Sep 15
     
    Perhaps some fodder for discussion of economics of tourism, growing poverty in the suburbs (at the end), gentrification in the city.
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Higher Education's Internet Outrage Machine - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Educati... - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 08 Sep 15
     
    https://twitter.com/chronicle/status/641208109118062593 The Internet's Outrage Machine. Interesting read on modern logics of ideology, student media and digital media.
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The Digital CultureSHIFT: From Scale to Power - The Center for Media Justice - 0 views

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    "How the Internet is Shaping Social Change, and Social Change is Shaping the Internet"
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UMUC Replaces Textbooks with Embedded Digital Resources | UMUC - 0 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 30 Aug 15
     
    University of Maryland University College replaces textbooks with embedded no-cost digital resources, saving students hundreds of dollars a session.
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Division of Labor animation - 0 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 26 Aug 15
     
    It seems silly but that's why this animated explanation of the division of labor works. We return to the video later in the course when we talk about how the assumptions about "family" are never challenged in this version of social organization.
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Microsoft Word - IJeP 127_3.doc - ijep127.pdf - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 26 Aug 15
     
    What Difference Can ePortfolio Make? A Field Report from the Connect to Learning Project
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Chris Rock on Race, Class and Inventing Teeth - 2 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 26 Aug 15
     
    A great humorist is often a good sociologist. Chris Rock puts a funny spin on class, race and wealth in his analysis of who lives in his neighborhood. Some foul language but students can generally handle it.
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