Hello all- I teach sociology at Xavier University of Louisiana, an HBCU of about 4,000 students in Uptown New Orleans. There have been no firm decisions made, as everyone is rightly focused on search and rescue and the most dire circumstances our fellow New Orleanians are in. Everyone I'm holed up with here in Houston is growing weary of me ranting on the inequalities of the situation, etc. In short, there is nothing unpredictable about what has happened (sociologically). Anyway, I checked my email today and found so many posts on how to discuss it in the classroom. My tentative plan is to go to Southeastern, PA until we can return home. If anyone is in that general area and would be interested in having an unemployed sociologist come and talk to their class, I'd be happy to have something to do.
I would also ask you to get these crucial observations/discussions out of our email forums and into the mainstream press (as well as students' consciousness). We need to frame this story as one of path dependency rather than some bizarre unexplainable tragedy (which of course it is a tragedy). Amy Bellone Hite, Ph.D.-- sociologist out of residence P.S.- if anyone knows the whereabouts of members of sociology departments in the city, many of us are trying to check on colleagues and friends, so info would be helpful. > > From: Claudia Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/08/31 Wed AM 09:38:01 EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: Ideas for using Katrina? > > I'm going over the conflict perspective and structural functionalism in my > Intro class today and will ask students to look at Katrina from each of > these perspectives. I pulled a news photo of people lining up for shelter as > an example of the prevalence of social order and a couple of news stories on > those who had nowhere to evacuate to as an illustration of social > inequality. > > - Claudia > > > > On 8/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I would like to share ideas appropriate for first and second year > > students for tapping into to the current news on the Gulf coast - I > > think what I am doing is fairly routine (with culture) but I would like > > to hear what others are doing. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Susan > > > > > > > >
