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Hey Teaching and Learning Section folks, will you be joining us in Los Angeles at #ASA2022 ? We look forward to seeing you at our section activities.

Resharing this thread that was the basis of my lightning round talk at the ASA Teaching and Learning preconference! All about using extensions to help students and reduce inequality while not adding any increased work for you as instructor! #ASA2022

Every perspective is situated. Asian Americans cannot see ourselves from our perspectives unless we see our locations. Instead, we imagine ourselves from somewhere we're not—an idealized Other's position, a fantasized point of Origin. Flight from reality

At perhaps the most important session at #ASA2022 on Dobbs and the future of abortion. Live stream here: asa2022.conventus.live/agenda/2022-08… pic.x.com/SdYFKKaqe8

So glad the panel includes Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a provider in Texas, sharing the experience of providing care on the front lines of this struggle. #ASA2022

A computer science professor walks into a sociology conference…disciplines coming together in this NSF-funded project which incorporates an intro to data science and computational thinking into intro to sociology. Elizabeth Wissinger #ASA2022

I noticed that there was very little live tweeting from the ASA 2022 conference.

🔥JAMES BALDWIN: “I don’t know what most 🇺🇸 white people feel — I can only conclude what they feel from the state of their institutions.” Brilliantly answers a question we hear so often- white folks asking “why does everything have to be about race?”

The Teaching and Learning section welcomes submissions for our Teaching Symposium as well as panels.

Hey community college folks, did you know ASA Sociology is hosting a Community College Coffee Hour-tomorrow, Sunday, August 20 from 2 to 3:30pm at the Marriott Philadelphia Downtown- Floor: Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon F. #ASA2023

Congratulations to Jeffrey Chin on receiving this year’s ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award! #ASA2023

The status of teaching relative to research in American sociology is the single most emblematic example of the persistence of racism, classism, and sexism within the discipline. Don’t believe me? Answer these three questions in your head:

I will that there are ways that they help that are t exclusionary—like wanting to connect with people you know at the same dept or region. I get it.

I posted these wild 1921 dance costumes a few days ago. Intrigued, I dug into the history of the couple who made them and found a gut-wrenching story of a doomed marriage. I tell it here, in... 'The Heartbreaking Fate of Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt.' youtube.com/watch?v=DronVd…