TEACHSOC: Re: Creative Field Trips workshop

[Andi Stepnick]

Morten, Those do sound great.  How do you set up an Army teleconference? Del and Morten, I love your suggestions!! I should've mentioned this is for an ASA workshop this August. Anyone want to join in as a group leader? I am "chairing" this workshop. I teach a Saturday course, so I've been limited as to the more traditional trips to prisons, shelters, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ender, M. DR BS&L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <teachsoc@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:58 PM Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: Creative Field Trips workshop Sarah, we try to do at least one trip per class: Intro: for mcdonaldization in intro, we actually go to McDonalds and students have to complete a worksheet locating examples of the five elements of mcdonaldization...students love it and the local mcdonalds, not knowing what we are doing, are very compliant and invite students into the kitchen to marvel at the efficiency of the operation... Intro: visit the local mall and do an unobtrusive observation of race and gender and kitchen workers of the all the restuarants in the food court---we compare to the stores that anchor the food court--there's a correlation btw race/gender/establishment status...as you might expect we also; Intro: local funeral home (we read Goffman and dramaturgy coupled with death and dying for this) Crim/Deviance; Visit the local prisons--men's maximum security and women's minimum security Social Inequality: we visit the Tenement Museum in NYC and then get a walking tour by Big Onion Tours--Columbia U history grad students specializing in NYC nieghborhoods (note, very few Italians live in Little Italy!); Armed Forces & Society: we do a Video Teleconference with soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to tell us what they are experiencing (most units have VTC systems on the FOBs linked to the U.S.) morten ________________________________ From: teachsoc@googlegroups.com on behalf of Sarah Murray Sent: Mon 9/18/2006 3:40 PM To: teachsoc@googlegroups.com Subject: TEACHSOC: Creative Field Trips workshop I have been asked to organize a workshop called "A Look Beyond the Classroom: Creative Class Trips that Bring Sociology to the Everyday." Anyone have any imput? I take my classes to a local shopping mall to search for evidence as to whether or not we are a culture that supports "family values" or violent behavior. Sarah Murray William Paterson U. of NJ --   Andi     Every object, every being, Is a jar of delight. Be a connoisseur.      ~Rumi~   Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.      ~Cathy Better~   Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least.       ~Johann von Goethe~   ---------------- Dr. Andi Stepnick Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology 314 Wheeler Humanities Building Belmont University 1900 Belmont Blvd. Nashville TN 37212-3757   Direct Line:  (615) 460-6249 Office Manager: (615) 460-5505 Sociology Fax:  (615) 460-6997   --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to teachsoc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---