Responding to the Quantitative Literacy Gap Among Students in Sociology Courses

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Isabelle Wilder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Quantitative Literacy ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Literacy Gap ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Quantitative Skills ◽  
The City

The Integrating Data Analysis (IDA) approach to undergraduate education developed by the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) has been embedded in the undergraduate sociology curriculum at Lehman College, The City University of New York (CUNY), since 2003. This study draws on student and faculty assessment data from the fall 2004 and spring 2006 semesters to evaluate the effectiveness of this initiative. The results show that students in courses with an IDA component significantly improved their performance on quantitative skills tests. Efforts to engage students in active learning through the use of computers were associated with increased student comfort and greater interest in working with data. In turn, students who were comfortable working with data exhibited especially high levels of quantitative skill. Although students who were taught a wide variety of data analysis skills reported greater interest in working with data, those who were taught a more limited range of skills achieved higher performance scores. Likewise, students who were required to complete assignments and undertake graded examinations that tested a wide range of quantitative skills had less interest in working with data but achieved greater improvements in their test scores.

Anti-sage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Culliney ◽  
David Jones
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
New York University ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

Chapter 10 proceeds in light of our suggestion that sagely behavior is freely chosen, benign, yet powerful, and seeks cooperation in the world in ways that are positive, progressive, nurturing, and constructive in nature. This chapter, however, accounts for people who have been gifted with or have assiduously developed powers of rapport or charisma, achieving notable fractal congruence in the social, political, or economic life of institutions or communities but who have gone the other way. This phenomenon over a wide range of scale can elevate those who become destructive or aggrandizing to the ultimate detriment of society. Numerous followers can gravitate to the kind of socially-fractally-adept individual that we call an anti-sage. The chapter discusses examples of the antisage phenomenon in cults and terrorist organizations such as the People’s Temple and Aum Shinrykyo. In this narrative pertinent expressions of human selfness include: Protean self vs. fundamentalist self and parochial altruism. Also explored are politics and government, notably the administration of George W. Bush, creed-based religions, particularly Christianity and Islam, and aggrandizement in educational administration, such as that of John Sexton’s presidency of New York University.

Fronts Matter: The Effectiveness of an “Edited Book” Project in Classical Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-340
Author(s):  
Devrim Adam Yavuz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Classical Theory ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Literacy Activities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The City

The instruction of classical sociological theory at Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) underwent significant transformation to make it more activity-based and better aligned with departmental learning goals. The article focuses on the effectiveness of an “edited book” project that came of this endeavor, where students become editors and curate “chapters” on a topic by identifying journal articles from specific sociological traditions to then write the “book’s introduction.” In addition to situating the project within the sociology curriculum and scholarship on sociological literacy, the article presents assessment results that revealed improvement in learning outcomes. The latter suggests that discipline-specific writing and literacy activities can be as effective as informal assignments even in anxiety-inducing courses like theory. This is encouraging given Lehman College’s role as a commuter campus, which makes the instructional strategy applicable in a wide range of programs.

scholarly journals Description of the American Community of John Steinbeck’s Adventure in Novel Travels with Charley in Search of America 1960s

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Abbas Abbas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Research Data ◽  
American People ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This article aims at describing the social life of the American people in several places that made the adventures of John Steinbeck as the author of the novel Travels with Charley in Search of America around the 1960s. American people’s lives are a part of world civilizations that literary readers need to know. This adventure was preceded by an author’s trip in New York City, then to California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Saint Lawrence, Quebec, Niagara Falls, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, North Dakota, the Rocky Mountains, Washington, the West Coast, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, New Orleans, Salinas, and again ended in New York. In processing research data, the writer uses one of the methods of literary research, namely the Dynamic Structural Approach which emphasizes the study of the intrinsic elements of literary work and the involvement of the author in his work. The intrinsic elements emphasized in this study are the physical and social settings. The research data were obtained from the results of a literature study which were then explained descriptively. The writer found a number of descriptions of the social life of the American people in the 1960s, namely the life of the city, the situation of the inland people, and ethnic discrimination. The people of the city are busy taking care of their profession and competing for careers, inland people living naturally without competing ambitions, and black African Americans have not enjoyed the progress achieved by the Americans. The description of American society related to the fictional story is divided by region, namely east, north, middle, west, and south. The social condition in the eastern region is dominated by beaches and mountains, and is engaged in business, commerce, industry, and agriculture. The comfortable landscape in the northern region spends the people time as breeders and farmers. The natural condition in the middle region of American is very suitable for agriculture, plantations, and animal husbandry. Many people in the western American region facing the Pacific Ocean become fishermen. The natural conditions from the plains and valleys to the hills make the southern region suitable for plantation land.

scholarly journals The Sociolinguistic Sampling. Does it Need to be Redefined?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p57
Author(s):  
Francisco García Marcos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
York City ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Social Variation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spanish Populations ◽  
The City ◽  
Representative Samples

The present article analyses a classic in the methodology on the analysis of the social variation of languages: the application of the ratio of 0'0025 % to obtain a representative sample of the population of a speaking community. This ratio, established empirically by Labov in 1966 for New York City, nevertheless presents important limitations when moving to communities with smaller populations. Replicating the empirical experimentation in four Spanish populations of different demographic size, it is shown that the empirically representative samples correspond to the confidence intervals already provided by the general statistics. Likewise, it is shown that these were the parameters between which 0,0025 % in the city of New York was developed. Consequently, the problem was not in the formulation of the ratio by Labov (1966), but in the subsequent indiscriminate application that has been made of it.

scholarly journals POTRET SOSIAL DALAM SEPULUH SAJAK REMY SYLADO DAN RELEVANSINYA DENGAN PEMBELAJARAN SASTRA DI SMA

LingTera ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Zuniar Kamaluddin Mabruri ◽  
Suminto A. Sayuti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
City Development ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan struktur puisi dan potret sosial sepuluh sajak Remy Sylado. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk merelevansikan potret sosial masyarakat Indonesia dalam sepuluh sajak Remy Sylado dengan pembelajaran sastra di Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA). Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah kumpulan puisi Kerygma & Martyria karya Remy Sylado. Objek dalam penelitian ini adalah potret sosial dan relevansinya dengan pembelajaran sastra di SMA dalam sepuluh sajak Remy Sylado. Data dalam penelitian ini adalah kata-kata yang termuat dalam sepuluh sajak Remy Sylado yang dipilih dengan menggunakan teknik sampel bertujuan. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teknik pembacaan dan pencatatan. Teknik analisis data menggunakan pembacaan semiotika Michael Riffaterre dengan pendekatan sosiologi sastra Rene Wellek & Austin Warren. Berdasarkan pembacaan semiotika terhadap sepuluh sajak Remy Sylado disimpulkan beberapa potret sosial masyarakat Indonesia yang meliputi (1) Potret Modernitas di Negara Indonesia yang terdapat dalam sajak “Zaman Azab“, “Di Atas Azab Pena Berpihak”, “Asap Telah Menutup Kota Perkasa” (2) Potret Kolonialisme dan Ekspansi kapitalisme yang terdapat dalam sajak “Origo Mali“, “Cenderamata”, “Uang” (3) Potret kota, Pembangunan, dan Kapitalisme yang terdapat dalam sajak “Pena”, “Pemain Kambing Hitam”, “Si Miskin”, dan “Apakah Negerinya Masih”. Potret sosial dalam sepuluh sajak Remy Sylado relevan dengan pembelajaran sastra di SMA. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SOCIAL PORTRAIT IN TEN POEMS REMY SYLADO AND RELEVANCE TO LEARNING LITERATURE IN HIGH SCHOOL   Abstract This study aimed to describe the structure of the poem and the social portrait in ten poems Remy Sylado. In addition, this study also aimed to relevance of the social portrait of Indonesian society in Remy Sylado’s ten poems with learning literature in high school. Sources of data in this study include the subject adn object. Subject in this study are a collection of poems Kerygma & Martyria written by Remy Sylado. Object in this study are a social potrait and relevance to learning literature in high school to ten poems Remy Sylado. The data in this study are words contained in Remy Sylado’s ten poems were selected using purposive sampling technique. Data collection techniques used in this study are reading and writing. Data analysis used Michael Riffaterre semiotic reading by using the sociological literature approach written by Rene Wellek & Austin Warren. Based on the semiotic reading of the ten poems Remy Sylado it was discovered portrait Indonesian society which includes (1) Images of modernity in Indonesia contained in the poem "Zaman Azab", "Di Atas Azab Pena Berpihak", and "Asap Telah Menutup Kota Perkasa" (2) Portrait of colonialism and the expansion of capitalism contained in the poem "Origo Mali", "Cenderamata", and "Uang" (3) Images of the city, development, and capitalism contained in the poem "Pena","Pemain Kambing Hitam", "Si Miskin", and "Apakah Negerinya Masih". Social potrait in ten poems Remy Sylado relevance to learning literature in high school. Keywords: social portrait, ten poems Remy Sylado, semiotics, sociology of literature.

scholarly journals Minicities in suburbia – A model for urban sustainability?

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Gunnar Røe ◽  
Inger-Lise Saglie
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Us ◽  
Big City ◽  
Car Travel ◽  
The City

In the 1970s it was argued that suburban centres in the US had developed into “minicities”, offering a wide range of possibilities for consumption, cultural events and a sense of the urban. In this article we explore to which extent this description of minicities may be valid in two cases in the suburban hinterland of Oslo. We further discuss whether the “urbanization” of these suburban centres may contribute to a more sustainable urban development, with respect to everyday travel. We conclude that the growth of these minicities may reduce car travel, either because of their excellent public transport connection to the (big) city centre and other nodes in the increasingly decentralized urban region, or because they may serve as a substitute for the city centre. However, an empirical investigation of the role of minicities must be based on a deeper understanding of the social and cultural processes that guide the everyday life of today’s sub­urbanites.

“Hints That Are Revelations”

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-200
Author(s):  
Davy Knittle
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
New York School ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The City ◽  
Us Cities ◽  
James Schuyler

This article reads the transformation of urban space in US cities during and since the urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s in dialogue with queer and disability theories of access to the social and the built environment. Knittle focuses on obsolescence as an urban planning strategy used to justify the removal of buildings and people from the present, as he explores how queer and disability studies have negotiated and advocated for access to the present and the future while refusing assimilation to normative social forms. He reads across body and city scales to consider access as dynamic and to map how the ableist expectations projected onto disabled bodies in what Alison Kafer describes as a “curative imaginary” appear on the city scale as an “urban curative imaginary.” To explore resistances to obsolescence that refuse assimilation while demanding access, Knittle reads the “window poems” of queer New York School poet James Schuyler. In these poems, Schuyler documents small and large forms of urban transformation from his Manhattan apartment during the 1950s and 1960s. Schuyler’s poems, Knittle argues, model strategies for how to identify the obsolescence of normative space rather than the obsolescence of queer and disabled bodies. He uses the poems’ focus on the queer potential of how urban spaces change to argue for a queer disability urbanism that takes the dynamism of access as a precondition for negotiating equitable forms of social participation and public life.

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