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Revisit plenaries from #ASA2025 w/ David Takeuchi, @lindsayowens.bsky.social, @alondra.bsky.social, @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Catherine Moran, Adia Harvey Wingfield, Patricia Hill Collins, David Pedulla, @darrickhamilton.bsky.social, @jessicacalarco.com, & Beth Pearson. https://bit.ly/41oE2MM

In this class activity, Robert Thomson has students wrestle with the causes and consequences of gang violence through a series of activities including lectures and assignments organized around the documentary Crips & Bloods: Made in America (Peralta 2008). trails.asanet.org/.../teaching....

📣 JOIN US on Saturday, August 9th at 4PM at the annual @asanews.bsky.social meetings in Chicago for the AKD Distinguished Lecture from Dr. Mary Romero!

We hope to see you there!

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In this assignment, Jeff Shelton has students turn in 3 writing assignments on 2 topics. This assignment incorporates many steps scholars and professionals use to create, develop, and present their ideas and can be adapted to other sociology classes. trails.asanet.org/.../explorin....

In this activity, Frederic Traylor describes the theory that Travis Kelce has had a better season due to Taylor Swift being at his games. Students are to compute, analyze, and argue for or against the existence of such an effect. #asatrails #TeachSoc #TRAILS trails.asanet.org/.../does-tay...

This class activity by Deeb Kitchen, engages students in a critical exploration of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. #TRAILS #TeachSoc #asatrails trails.asanet.org/.../ethics-r...

In this class activity by Todd Lu, students will learn qualitative content analysis using the free and open-source Taguette software. #asatrails #TeachSoc #TRAILS trails.asanet.org/.../using-ta...

In this activity, Edward Smith has students examine Emile Durkheim’s structural framework from his book on Elementary Forms of Religious Life to explore Pokémon Platinum and its religious elements present within the game. #TRAILS #asatrails #TeachSoc trails.asanet.org/.../teaching...

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ASA joined with 800+ organizations and 3000+ individuals urging Congress to fund NIH in the FY2025 appropriations bill and preserve protections against cuts to reimbursement for NIH grantee Facilities and Administrative costs. See all ASA advocacy here: www.asanet.org/public-engag...

👋We're back with another reason for you to join us for this years' Undergrad Research Symposium!

🗣️"[It's] a great way to support other students' efforts for continued research & seeing how the world works through a sociological lens."

Learn more ➡️ alphakappadelta.org/undergraduat...

We are continuing our AKD Chapter Anniversary celebrations with a shout out to two chapters celebrating 10 years this year! 🥳

Help us send a huge congratulations to the chapters in this tread for a decade of promoting excellence in the scholarship in the study of sociology! 👏👏👏

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Sociologists! Be part of a gathering of peers that includes nearly 600 programmatic sessions featuring more than 3,000 research papers and 4,500 presenters! Register for the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago!  #ASA2025 https://bit.ly/RegisterASA25

In Kristen Discola's activity, basic tenets of symbolic interactionism are broken down into digestible pieces and students explore each through close investigation of their own experiences of identity construction. #asatrails #TeachSoc #TRAILS trails.asanet.org/.../49ers-fa...

Together with more than 45 other organizations, ASA signed a public statement reaffirming our commitment to academic freedom, stable research funding, and policies grounded in scientific evidence. unitedsciencealliance.org

Deadline in 2 weeks! Send us your proposals for papers, extended abstracts, courses, preconferences, symposiums, & workshops for the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago! We can’t wait to learn more about what you’ve been working on! Deadline is Feb. 26. https://bit.ly/ASA2025Call.

Deadline today! Sociology undergrads, be sure to submit your application online for the ASA Honors Program by 11:59 pm EST. Read application instructions here: https://bit.ly/ASAHonorsProgram.

#ASA #HonorsProgram #sociology #ASA2025 #undergraduates

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Want to refresh your sociology syllabi? Get assignments, syllabi, multimedia files, and more in ASA’s TRAILS! Check out curated collections, such as the Listening and Music Resource Collection that has assignments on applying sociology to playlists and lyrics. Free for ASA members! bit.ly/3tpmTEE

Get up to $2,500 to support your work advancing the teaching & learning of sociology! ASA is accepting applications for Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Grants from individuals, programs, departments, or committees. Deadline is Feb 6. https://bit.ly/ASAHowery

The Social Research course, created by Maria Scaptura, was designed as 6-units walking students through the process, methodologies, analysis, evaluation, and finally, real-world applications of social research. #SocSky #TeachSoc trails.asanet.org/.../learning...

Today would be a good day to add content on the climate change to your spring sociology course. Here are some resources ot help: trails.asanet.org/issue/view/c...

The call is still open:

Rachel Bryant-Anderson created a guide that describes climate justice-themed content for a Social Problems course. The course shows how climate justice relates to each of these problems. #asatrails #TeachSoc #TRAILS #SocSky trails.asanet.org/.../integrat...

This activity by Anna Penner, uses the sociological imagination and the social model of disability to highlight how society disables chronically ill and disabled individuals. #SocSky #Sociology #TeachSoc trails.asanet.org/.../view/spo...

Please share! @asatrails.bsky.social is seeking new editorial board members. Apply today! #SocSky #TeachSoc #Sociology

We have begun reviewing applications, but there is still time to apply to join the @asatrails.bsky.social editorial board. Please share! #SocSky #Sociology #TeachSoc

This experiential project by Alyssa Lyons explores global and cross-cultural perspectives on education and society. Students conduct auto-ethnography and field-work to understand museums as sites of public education (Glenn, 2015). #SocSky #TeachSoc #TRAILS trails.asanet.org/.../experien...

Ellen Meiser's “Artificial Intelligence and the Human Apocalypse” uses a podcast, a documentary, articles, and ChatGPT to help students to consider if artificial intelligence is dangerous and to explore AI’s potential role(s) in future disasters. #SocSky #TeachSoc trails.asanet.org/.../artifici...

Check out our latest resource collection for social theory: trails.asanet.org/issue/view/s... #SocSky #TeachSoc #Sociology

TRAILS is here!