Project goals
What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for college right now? The goal of this project is to deploy your budding sociological perspective to think about this issue.
This schedule will evolve as the term proceeds. Watch regularly for more details. You can annotate…
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The New York Times story titled “Without Fixing Inequality, The Schools Are Always Going To Struggle” details eight public school teacher’s accounts of how their students’ zip code shapes their lives. One of those teachers, Julie Roneson, shares her experience…
Week 4 Reading
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The cost of living has definitely increased, especially during these trying times of 2020. Such issues have greatly impacted a persons financial security. While reading the article “ How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality”, I felt uneasy when learning…
In this week’s articles and podcast the main theme revolved around opportunity and specifically “equality of opportunity” . Some argue that…
Week 2 Reading
Educations Limitations & Its Radical Possibilities https://contexts.org/articles/educations-limitations-and-its-radical-possibilities/
Students and university growing up together…
When I think of a student who is receiving financial aid….I think of the vast majority of students attending college today. If I think of my group of my group of eight or nine friends who attend different schools (public and private universities, state…
The United States of America was founded on myths, lies, and theft of land and labor, which American’s perpetuate every day. The narrative must change.
The New York Times 1619 Project uses the 400 anniversary of the moment enslaved Africans began to…