OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Teaching Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Effectively Engaging First-Generation Rural Students in Higher Education: New Opportunities for Sociology	23
Podcast Review: The Faculty of Horror	19
Doing Sociology, Learning Objectives, and Developing Rubrics for Undergraduate Research Methods	18
Podcast Review: Let’s Talk!	15
Teaching with Inclusivity: Examining Flexible Pedagogical Techniques That Amplify Accessibility While Retaining Engagement	13
Author Index	12
Book Review: Supes Ain’t Always Heroes: Inside the Complex Characters and Twisted Psychology of The Boys	10
Family Work Histories: Centering First-Generation and Working-Class Students in a Sociology Course	9
From Here to There: Using Required Courses to Expand First-Generation Mentorship Accessibility	6
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025	5
GroupMe Use and Misuse: A Qualitative Study of Student Use of Group Chat Apps	5
Film Review: Reversing Roe	5
In Their Own Words: Teaching Empathy through the Centering of Individuals Who Have Experienced Abuse	4
Blind Taste, Clear Insights: Using Bottled Water to Teach Environmental Sociology and Quantitative Literacy	4
The Impact of a Science of Happiness Course on Students’ Mental Health	4
Exploring the Impacts of Students’ Characteristics, Pedagogical Activities, and Course Structure on Personal Resonance and Practical Applications of Transformative Pedagogy	4
Gamifying Gamification in the Sociology Classroom	3
Book Review: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land	3
Abolition as Praxis and Virtual Community-Based Learning	3
Teaching Social Theory as Cartography: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Accessibility	3
Book Review: Call Us What We Carry: Poems	3
Editor’s Comment	3
Engaging Students Using an Arts-Based Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Sociological Theory through Film, Art, and Music	3
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024	3
Book Reviews: I’m Glad My Mom Died	3

Podcast Review: American Hysteria	2
Book Review: Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope	2
Bringing Deep Reading Back in: How Concept Mapping Enhances Student Learning	2
Book Reviews: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment	2
Integrating Experiential Learning in Introduction to Sociology: Cultivating the Sociological Imagination in Premedicine Students	2
Burying the Lead: Systematic Reluctance in the Coverage of Stratification Systems in Introductory Sociology Textbooks	2
Student Attitudes and Motivations toward Viewing Videos of Police Fatal Encounters in a Classroom Setting	2
Gender and Justice in the Family in a Graduate Elective Classroom: Cultivating a Sociological Imagination	2
Behind the Scenes: Teaching the Sociology of Tourism Abroad	2
Unsettling Sociology Curriculum: Indigenous Content in Introductory Sociology Textbooks	2
Enhancing Student Engagement through Self-Care Reminders in Online Courses: A Quasi-experimental Study	2
Assessing Student Preferences for Quantitative Methods Courses Using Discrete Choice Experiments	2
Website Review: Opportunity Atlas	2
“But I Didn’t Use ChatGPT!”: Democratic Course Design and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Landscape	2
Podcast Review: Mosaic	2
Encouraging Productive Behavior in Student Teams with Interventions	2
Examining Engagement, Note-Taking, and Multitasking in Podcast-Based Learning	2
“You Make Your Own Luck”: Building Cultural and Social Capital in a Major-Based Career Course	1
Film Review: Hail Satan?	1
The Opportunity of Now: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Sociology Classroom and Beyond	1
You Will Never Walk Alone: Ethnographic Training as Collective Endeavor	1
Podcast Review: Buried Bones DawsonKate WinklerHolesPaul (hosts). Buried Bones. Exactly Right Media, 2022. 342 episodes. https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/buried-bones.	1
Black Dreams, Electric Mirror: Cross-Cultural Teaching of State Terrorism and Legitimized Violence	1
Curiosity, Connection, and Creating Value: Applying an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Upper-Division Sociology Courses	1
Teaching Civic Engagement through an Op-Ed Writing Assignment	1
Book Reviews: The Paradigm of Social Interaction	1
Film Review: Four Good Days Four Good Days. 100 minutes. 2020. BarchaRodrigo García, director. Vertical Entertainment. Available on various streaming platforms. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10344522/.	1
Beyond Policies and Procedures: Using the Syllabus Quiz to Predict How Well Students Will Perform in a College Course	1
Book Review: Introduction to Sociology	1
Counting Tents: Pedagogical Reflections on Faculty–Student Collaboration in a Real-World Project on Homelessness	1
Film Reviews: The Passage of Time	1
Deepening Learning and Addressing Inequalities: A Psychosocial Approach to Improving Statistical Literacy Throughout Sociology Curricula	1
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	1
Book Review: Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions	1
Learning to See Like a Medical Sociologist: Comparing One- Versus Two-Semester Fieldwork-Based Courses	1
When Filling the Research Gap Is Personal: Autoethnography and New Majority Students	1
Film Review: Last Chance U: Basketball	1
Editor’s Comment	1
The Supervisor Effect: A Note on Teaching Field Methods	1
Collectively Building Bridges for First-Generation Working-Class Students: Pláticas Centering the Pedagogical Practices of Convivencia in El Puente Research Fellowship	1
A Sociological Lens on Linguistic Diversity: Implications for Writing Inclusive Multiple-Choice Assessments	1
Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice	1
Climate Warriors	0
Film Review: Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie	0
Impacts of Teaching Critical Race Theory and Applying Contact Theory Methods to Student’s Cross-Cultural Competency in Diversity Courses	0
Digital Ethnography as High-Impact Practices for Teaching Methods in Introductory Sociology	0
Assessing Instructor-AI Cooperation for Grading Essay-Type Questions in an Introductory Sociology Course	0
Engaging Contradictions in a “Forbidden Place”: Working-Class Students of Color Studying Abroad in Havana, Cuba	0
Book Review: Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights	0
Book Review: Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Wider Audience LangJames M.Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Wider Audience. Chicago, IL: University of Chica	0

Introduction: Teaching and Learning a Humanistic Sociology	0
The Inequality Mirror: Using a Student Survey to Teach Social Stratification	0
The Sociological Imagination within Teaching Sociology: 1973–2020	0
Book Reviews: Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream	0
Book Review: Amplified Advantage: Going to a “Good” College in an Era of Inequality	0
Editors’ Comment: Considering Assessment Revisited	0
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023	0
Responding Sociologically: Using Attributional Processes to Promote Student Confidence and Sense of Mastery in Sociology Courses	0
Book Review: The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
“Out of the Comfort Zone”: Creating a Safely Brave Space for Dialogues about Race	0
Teaching Sociology through Violence? The Pedagogical Use and Misuse of Violence in Soc 101 Textbooks	0
The Physiology of Sociology: Students’ Biometric Response to Lessons on Race and Racism	0
“Everyone Is Supersmart Now”: Learning Higher-Level and Critical Sociological Thinking from the Dystopian Satire of M.T. Anderson’s Feed	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Black Lives Matter and the Changing Sociological Canon: An Analysis of Syllabi from 2012 to 2023	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Exploring the Moral Underpinnings of Sociological Theory: A Collaborative Exercise for College-Level Courses	0
What’s Blood Got to Do with It? A Culture of Cinema Horrors at the Precipice of an Abyss	0
“Be Kind to Yourself and to Your Students”: Lessons from a Generation of Sociology Teachers	0
Book Review: Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine NeervenEllen Van “Wounds in Place: Football as a Manual for Survival in Ongoing Colonization.” Pp. 101-108 in, Their Bor	0
Book Review: Negotiating Opportunities: How Middle Class Secures Advantages in School	0
Doing Sociology across Borders: Student Experiences and Learning with Virtual Exchange in Large Introductory Sociology Classes	0
Editor’s Comment	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
The Pandemic Classroom and Supportive Relationships: Antidote to Neoliberalism in Higher Education? 2023 Hans O. Mauksch Address for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching	0
Priming Students for Foundational Learning by Investigating Foundational Assumptions: A Critical Thinking Framework	0
The End of Sport	0
Piecing Together the Past to Understand Institutional Discrimination: Using a Historical Jigsaw Technique to Reduce Student Resistance to Controversial Topics	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Toward a Du Boisian Pedagogy for the Teaching of Sociology	0
Book Review: The Voices of #MeToo: From Grassroots Activism to a Viral Roar	0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Teaching Apocalypse, Now	0
So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What?	0
Capturing Dis/Comfort and Navigating Transformation in the Gender Studies Classroom	0
Digital Archive Review: CUNY Digital History Archive	0
Book Review: The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America DamaskeSarahThe Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Ga	0
The Art and Science of Social Research	0
The Handmaid Still in the Classroom? Using The Handmaid’s Tale in Sociology of Gender	0
Film Review: Cults and Extreme Belief	0
The Undergraduate RA: Benefits and Challenges for Sociology Faculty and Research Assistants	0
Author Index	0
Film Review: Born Free: Birth in America Born Free: Birth in America. 95 minutes. 2022. Paula-James-Martinez, director/producer, Digital Harvest Media. 401 E Jackson Street Suite 3300, Tampa, FL, 3360	0
Leaving the Lectures Behind: Using Community-Engaged Learning in Research Methods Classes to Teach about Sustainability	0
Aliens and Strangers: Exploring the “Other” in a Team-Taught Science Fiction Course	0
Film Review: Hot Coffee: Is Justice Being Served?	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Teaching with TikTok in Online Sociology of Sex and Gender Courses	0
Monsters among Us: Using Lovecraft Country to Teach about Du Bois and Fanon	0
Why Hyflex Teaching Should Not Become the New Normal in Higher Education	0
Book Review: Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice	0
Podcast Review: The Shape of Care	0
Film Review: Aftershock	0
Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Blended Pedagogy in Social Statistics Courses: Prelecture Strategies for Encouraging Learning among First-Generation College Students	0
Book Review: Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology	0
Film Review: Miss Representation Miss Representation. 88 minutes. 2012. NewsomJennifer Siebel, writer/director/producer, Virgil Films and Entertainment, 20 Terry Drive #	0
Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
“Pieces of My Soul”: A Humanistic Approach to Teaching Black-Identified Students about Race and Anti-Blackness	0
The Sociological Role of Empathy in the Classroom	0
Figures and Charts and Tables, Oh My!: A Content Analysis of Textbook Data Visualizations	0
Kelce	0
Promoting Empathy and Reducing Hopelessness Using Contemplative Practices	0
Book Review: The Anatomy of the Case Study	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Author Index	0
Taking Ethnography to Court: Pedagogical Reflections on a Collective Field Study	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022	0
Who Benefits? Building a Critical Service-Learning Model	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Help Me See the “Magnificent” Side of Sociology: The Outcomes of a Community Action and Involvement Course Designed to Help Undergraduates View Themselves as Agentic	0
Teaching Sociology of the Arts at an Urban Community College During the Pandemic: Reflections on Structure, Agency, and Community Engagement	0
In Defense of Doom and Gloom: Science, Sensitivity, and Mobilization in Teaching about Climate Change	0
Free to Learn: Ungrading in Sociology Courses	0
Teaching across the FGWC Terrain: Reflections of Sociology Educators	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Book Reviews: The Sociological Quest: An Introduction to the Study of Social Life	0

Film Review: Take Your Pills	0
Teaching Family? Care/Work Policy in Selected Family Courses in Canada’s Research-Intensive Universities	0
Theorizing the Teaching Triad	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Author Index	0
Playing Spent!: FGWC Experiences of Poverty Simulation Games	0
Is COVID-19 Like a Zombie Apocalypse? Using Horror Films to Examine the Pandemic and Social Inequalities	0
Recurring Vagueness: A Longitudinal Study of What Students Think about Sociology before, Right after, and Years after Taking the Introductory Course	0
Toward a Citizen Social Science Training Model	0
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology by, for, and about First-Generation and Working-Class People	0
Streaming Verstehen: Whither Feature Film in the Classroom?	0
Approaches to Focusing on Employability in the Sociology Major	0
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey	0
Film Review: Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy. 1 hour and 29 minutes. 2024. Stephen	0
Book Review: Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses	0
Film Reviews: Survivors Guide to Prison	0
Digital Syllabus: Transforming the Syllabus Using the Learning Management System	0
Sociological Animal Studies Courses Are More Effective Than Human-Centered Sociology Courses in Enhancing Empathy	0
Using a Decolonial Humanistic Sociological Lens to Teach Global Migration: The Global Migrations Exhibit Assignment	0
There’s No Place Like It: Making Space for Home in the Sociology Classroom	0
Cultivating Quantitative Literacy in the Introductory Course: A Mathematics Education Collaboration to Teach the Gini Coefficient	0
Sociological Theory through Dystopian and Fictional World-Building: Assigning a Short Story Parable Inspired by Derrick Bell’s “The Space Traders”	0
Campus Collaboration as a Gateway to Public Sociology: A Guide For “Unmuzzling” Graduate Student Instructors	0
Book Review: The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College	0
Book Reviews: Bullying: The Social Destruction of Self	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Podcast Review: Radiolab	0
Monsters, Michael Myers, and the Macabre as Tools to Explain Ideological Framing	0
Book Review: Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts the Most	0
Grounds of Culture: A Metaphorical and Heuristic Approach	0
Series Review: Common People. Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 1 “Common People.” Black Mirror, season seven, episode one. 58 minutes. 2025. PankiwAlly, director, Netflix	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Preparing for Medical School: How Sociology Helps Premedical Students Prepare for the MCAT and beyond	0
Podcast Review: The Civilizations Series by The Anti-Empire Project with Justin Podur	0
Film Reviews: Dispatches from Cleveland	0
The Impact of Social Relationships on College Student Learning during the Pandemic: Implications for Sociologists	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Immersion in Alien Worlds: Teaching Ethnographic Sensibilities through Dystopian and Science Fiction	0
Going to Zion! Experiencing Environmental Sociology in an Iconic National Park	0
Book Reviews: Innovations in Digital Research Methods	0
From Inclusive to Equitable Pedagogy: How to Design Course Assignments and Learning Activities That Address Structural Inequalities	0
Program Review with the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit for Sociology: Assessment of a Publicly Available Resource for Sociology Departments	0
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Balancing Pedagogy and Partnerships in an Undergraduate Community-Based Research Class	0
One World, Many Stories: Finding Human Connection through Global Sociology	0
Mental Health in the College Classroom: Best Practices for Instructors	0
Film Review: Exterminate All the Brutes	0
Podcast Review: The Sociology of Everything Podcast HsuEric L.EverussLouis (producers, writers). The Sociology of Everything Podcast. University of South Australia, 2025	0
Teaching the Abstract: An Evaluation of “Social Structure” in Introductory Textbooks	0
Corrigendum to “‘Pieces of My Soul’: A Humanistic Approach to Teaching Black-Identified Students about Race and Anti-Blackness”	0