Fostering a sociological imagination in students is a central goal for most introductory
sociology courses and sociology departments generally, yet success is difficult to achieve …

This research is an initial investigation into the ways community-based learning increase the
cognitive skills central to the exercise of the sociological imagination. In addition to …

Although we may claim our students are developing a sociological imagination, it is quite
another to realize this in our teaching and our students' performances. Through a …

This article argues that much community development education in universities is still very
conventional, lecturer-centered, and based on deficit assumptions about students' …

Asset mapping involves documenting the tangible and intangible resources of a community,
viewing it as a place with assets to be preserved and enhanced, not deficits to be remedied …

“IT'S ALL UP to the individual!” Most sociology instructors have encountered this response
from students who have internalized the dominant ideological perspective of “personal …

In this paper, we maintain that sociologists should deliberately teach social responsibility as
a means of fulfilling the promise that C. Wright Mills envisioned. A key aspect of the …

Community-based learning has been used often to illustrate concepts associated with
stratification and inequality. It has been lauded as one of the most beneficial ways of …

Teaching introduction to sociology successfully requires making sociological concepts" real"
to students. Using examples from the mass media to depict and clarify important sociological …

In an attempt to confront monolithic perceptions of achievement and an educational
narrative that defines communities of Color by their supposed deficits, the current study …