Overview
- Features thoughtful reflections on teaching about economic inequality and capitalism by pioneers in the field
- Presents in-depth, critical analyses of the current pedagogical and theoretical challenges facing educators as well as the importance of the contemporary study of gendered politics
- Offers successful strategies for teaching important concepts through case studies and active learning exercises
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Making the Personal Political: The Stories of Capitalism
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Making Marxist Theory Real
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Applied Pedagogical Strategies for Course Development
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Keywords
- Social Class Inequality
- Teaching in Late Capitalism
- Hegemonic Ideology of Meritocracy
- Teaching Economic Inequality
- Pedagogical Techniques in Teaching Courses
- Techniques Teaching Capitalism and Economic Inequality
- Radical Pedagogical Homesteading
- Reviewing Scaffolding
- Sociology of Conflict and Violence in the US
- Challenging Hegemonic Ideas on Poverty
- Class Inequality
- Impact of Economic Inequality on Students
- Teaching Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Transnational Comparison
- Teaching Global Social and Economic Inequality
- Black Student Protest
- Developing Politically Engaged Citizens
- Capitalism and the Cost of Textbooks
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kristin Haltinner is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Idaho. Her research is on right-wing ideology and social movement organizations; racial formation and discourse; and social inequality. She has previously conducted research on the Tea Party Patriots and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Her current research projects include a grounded study of climate change skepticism and another on traumatic child birth experiences. Haltinner teaches a variety of classes on topics related to diversity and inequality including: Diversity and Stratification, Racial and Ethnic Relations, and the Sociology of Gender.
Leontina Hormel is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Idaho. Her areas of research and teaching include political economy, community action research, and environmental inequalities. Currently, Leontina is working with a low-income, mobile home park residents whose experiences intersect with environmental justice and rural housing insecurity. She has conducted research with Nez Perce activists in northern Idaho, while other fieldwork has taken her to various parts of Idaho to examine community trust in science. Leontina’s courses include Global Sociology: Gender, Race, and Class Around the World; Economic (In)Justice in the United States; and Environment, Policy, and Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America
Editors: Kristin Haltinner, Leontina Hormel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71141-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71140-9Published: 16 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89040-1Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71141-6Published: 02 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 380
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Education, Economic Policy, Gender Studies