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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Podcast Review: The Faculty of Horror	17
Effectively Engaging First-Generation Rural Students in Higher Education: New Opportunities for Sociology	16
Podcast Review: Let’s Talk!	16
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021	15
Flying Solidarity as an Introductory Lesson in Social Theory	14
Doing Sociology, Learning Objectives, and Developing Rubrics for Undergraduate Research Methods	12
Book Review: Supes Ain’t Always Heroes: Inside the Complex Characters and Twisted Psychology of The Boys	11
Family Work Histories: Centering First-Generation and Working-Class Students in a Sociology Course	9
Author Index	9
Film Review: Reversing Roe	9
From Here to There: Using Required Courses to Expand First-Generation Mentorship Accessibility	6
GroupMe Use and Misuse: A Qualitative Study of Student Use of Group Chat Apps	5
Teaching Social Theory as Cartography: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Accessibility	5
In Their Own Words: Teaching Empathy through the Centering of Individuals Who Have Experienced Abuse	4
The Impact of a Science of Happiness Course on Students’ Mental Health	4
Book Review: Learning from Each Other: Refining the Practice of Teaching in Higher Education	3
Book Review: A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum	3
Book Review: Call Us What We Carry: Poems	3
Podcast Review: Give Theory a Chance	3
Engaging Students Using an Arts-Based Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Sociological Theory through Film, Art, and Music	3
Podcast Review: You’re Wrong About	3
Book Review: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land	2
Abolition as Praxis and Virtual Community-Based Learning	2
Bringing Deep Reading Back in: How Concept Mapping Enhances Student Learning	2
Book Review: Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope	2

Book Review: Aesthetic Labour	2
Book Reviews: I’m Glad My Mom Died	2
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024	2
Book Review: Working Lives and In-House Outsourcing: Chewed-Up by Two Masters	2
Assessing Student Preferences for Quantitative Methods Courses Using Discrete Choice Experiments	2
Gamifying Gamification in the Sociology Classroom	2
Editor’s Comment	2
Podcast Review: American Hysteria	2
Burying the Lead: Systematic Reluctance in the Coverage of Stratification Systems in Introductory Sociology Textbooks	2
“But I Didn’t Use ChatGPT!”: Democratic Course Design and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Landscape	1
Book Review: Introduction to Sociology	1
Podcast Review: Buried Bones DawsonKate WinklerHolesPaul (hosts). Buried Bones. Exactly Right Media, 2022. 342 episodes. https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/buried-bones.	1
Special Issue of Teaching Sociology on Teaching and Learning a Humanistic Sociology	1
The Opportunity of Now: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Sociology Classroom and Beyond	1
A Time to Adapt, Not “Return to Normal”: Lessons in Compassion and Accessibility from Teaching During COVID-19	1
Book Review: Waiting to Happen: The Sociology of Unexpected Injuries	1
Podcast Review: The Social Breakdown	1
Encouraging Productive Behavior in Student Teams with Interventions	1
When Filling the Research Gap Is Personal: Autoethnography and New Majority Students	1
Editor’s Comment	1
You Will Never Walk Alone: Ethnographic Training as Collective Endeavor	1
Beyond Policies and Procedures: Using the Syllabus Quiz to Predict How Well Students Will Perform in a College Course	1
Examining Engagement, Note-Taking, and Multitasking in Podcast-Based Learning	1
Behind the Scenes: Teaching the Sociology of Tourism Abroad	1
Book Reviews: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment	1
Integrating Experiential Learning in Introduction to Sociology: Cultivating the Sociological Imagination in Premedicine Students	1
Book Review: Kickstarting Your Academic Career: Skills to Succeed in the Social Sciences	1
The Supervisor Effect: A Note on Teaching Field Methods	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
Film Review: Last Chance U: Basketball	1
Website Review: Opportunity Atlas	1
Podcast Review: Mosaic	1
Unsettling Sociology Curriculum: Indigenous Content in Introductory Sociology Textbooks	1
Podcast Review: Does Not Compute	0
Deepening Learning and Addressing Inequalities: A Psychosocial Approach to Improving Statistical Literacy Throughout Sociology Curricula	0
Learning from 2020: How the Challenges of Remote Teaching Reinforce the Need for Care-Informed Pedagogy	0
Immersion in Alien Worlds: Teaching Ethnographic Sensibilities through Dystopian and Science Fiction	0
Author Index	0
Curiosity, Connection, and Creating Value: Applying an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Upper-Division Sociology Courses	0
Book Reviews: Bullying: The Social Destruction of Self	0
Film Review: Medicating Normal	0
Streaming Verstehen: Whither Feature Film in the Classroom?	0
Film Review: Aftershock	0
Equity in the Classroom and the Clinic: Understanding the Role of Sociology in Health Professional Education	0
“Pieces of My Soul”: A Humanistic Approach to Teaching Black-Identified Students about Race and Anti-Blackness	0
One World, Many Stories: Finding Human Connection through Global Sociology	0
Book Review: Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice	0
“Be Kind to Yourself and to Your Students”: Lessons from a Generation of Sociology Teachers	0
Black Dreams, Electric Mirror: Cross-Cultural Teaching of State Terrorism and Legitimized Violence	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0

Teaching the Abstract: An Evaluation of “Social Structure” in Introductory Textbooks	0
Book Review: Amplified Advantage: Going to a “Good” College in an Era of Inequality	0
Podcast Review: The Sociology of Everything Podcast HsuEric L.EverussLouis (producers, writers). The Sociology of Everything Podcast. University of South Australia, 2025	0
Learning to See Like a Medical Sociologist: Comparing One- Versus Two-Semester Fieldwork-Based Courses	0
Comment from the Editor: Celebrating Volume 50	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
Corrigendum to “‘Pieces of My Soul’: A Humanistic Approach to Teaching Black-Identified Students about Race and Anti-Blackness”	0
Is COVID-19 Like a Zombie Apocalypse? Using Horror Films to Examine the Pandemic and Social Inequalities	0
Book Review: Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions	0
The Inequality Mirror: Using a Student Survey to Teach Social Stratification	0
Introduction: Teaching and Learning a Humanistic 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
Are You a Werewolf? Teaching Symbolic Interaction Theory through Game Play	0
Digital Archive Review: CUNY Digital History Archive	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
Author Index: Index to Volume 49	0
Climate Warriors	0
Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda	0
Resistance, Rage, Paralysis, and Paralysis by Proxy: Reflecting on Reactions to Contentious Content in the Classroom	0
Kelce	0
Book Review: The Anatomy of the Case Study	0
Going to Zion! Experiencing Environmental Sociology in an Iconic National Park	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Book Review: Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology	0
Blended Pedagogy in Social Statistics Courses: Prelecture Strategies for Encouraging Learning among First-Generation College Students	0
Sociological Theory through Dystopian and Fictional World-Building: Assigning a Short Story Parable Inspired by Derrick Bell’s “The Space Traders”	0
Teaching Sociology of the Arts at an Urban Community College During the Pandemic: Reflections on Structure, Agency, and Community Engagement	0
Podcast Review: Nice White Parents	0
Book Review: The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College	0
The Sociological Imagination within Teaching Sociology: 1973–2020	0
Book Review: The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality	0
Aliens and Strangers: Exploring the “Other” in a Team-Taught Science Fiction Course	0
The Undergraduate RA: Benefits and Challenges for Sociology Faculty and Research Assistants	0
Podcast Review: The Civilizations Series by The Anti-Empire Project with Justin Podur	0
Book Reviews: Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream	0
Collectively Building Bridges for First-Generation Working-Class Students: Pláticas Centering the Pedagogical Practices of Convivencia in El Puente Research Fellowship	0
Special Issue of Teaching Sociology on Teaching Sociology by, for, and about First-Generation and Working-Class Persons	0
Preparing for Medical School: How Sociology Helps Premedical Students Prepare for the MCAT and beyond	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
“You Make Your Own Luck”: Building Cultural and Social Capital in a Major-Based Career Course	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Film Reviews: Survivors Guide to Prison	0
Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal	0
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023	0
Teaching Civic Engagement through an Op-Ed Writing Assignment	0
Book Review: Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts the Most	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
Book Review: How Can We Solve Our Social Problems? 3rd ed.	0
Book Reviews: The Paradigm of Social Interaction	0
Responding Sociologically: Using Attributional Processes to Promote Student Confidence and Sense of Mastery in Sociology Courses	0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Teaching Apocalypse, Now	0
From Inclusive to Equitable Pedagogy: How to Design Course Assignments and Learning Activities That Address Structural Inequalities	0
Teaching Family? Care/Work Policy in Selected Family Courses in Canada’s Research-Intensive Universities	0
Film Reviews: The Passage of Time	0
Podcast Review: The Shape of Care	0
In Defense of Doom and Gloom: Science, Sensitivity, and Mobilization in Teaching about Climate Change	0
Book Review: Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses	0
Figures and Charts and Tables, Oh My!: A Content Analysis of Textbook Data Visualizations	0
What’s Blood Got to Do with It? A Culture of Cinema Horrors at the Precipice of an Abyss	0
Monsters among Us: Using Lovecraft Country to Teach about Du Bois and Fanon	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Who Benefits? Building a Critical Service-Learning Model	0
Grounds of Culture: A Metaphorical and Heuristic Approach	0
Book Review: Negotiating Opportunities: How Middle Class Secures Advantages in School	0
Editors’ Comment: Considering Assessment Revisited	0
Mental Health in the College Classroom: Best Practices for Instructors	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Book Review: The Voices of #MeToo: From Grassroots Activism to a Viral Roar	0
Author Index	0
Taking Ethnography to Court: Pedagogical Reflections on a Collective Field Study	0
Film Review: Crime + Punishment	0
List of Reviewers: July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022	0
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Balancing Pedagogy and Partnerships in an Undergraduate Community-Based Research Class	0
Program Review with the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit for Sociology: Assessment of a Publicly Available Resource for Sociology Departments	0
“Out of the Comfort Zone”: Creating a Safely Brave Space for Dialogues about Race	0
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey	0
The Sociological Role of Empathy in the Classroom	0
Promoting Empathy and Reducing Hopelessness Using Contemplative Practices	0
Teaching across the FGWC Terrain: Reflections of Sociology Educators	0

“Everyone Is Supersmart Now”: Learning Higher-Level and Critical Sociological Thinking from the Dystopian Satire of M.T. Anderson’s Feed	0
Using a Decolonial Humanistic Sociological Lens to Teach Global Migration: The Global Migrations Exhibit Assignment	0
Book Review: Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)	0
Film Review: Exterminate All the Brutes	0
The End of Sport	0
Impacts of Teaching Critical Race Theory and Applying Contact Theory Methods to Student’s Cross-Cultural Competency in Diversity Courses	0
A Sociological Lens on Linguistic Diversity: Implications for Writing Inclusive Multiple-Choice Assessments	0
Cultivating Quantitative Literacy in the Introductory Course: A Mathematics Education Collaboration to Teach the Gini Coefficient	0
Toward a Du Boisian Pedagogy for the Teaching of Sociology	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	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
Book Review: Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Podcast Review: Radiolab	0
Book Review: Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist	0
The Handmaid Still in the Classroom? Using The Handmaid’s Tale in Sociology of Gender	0
Why Hyflex Teaching Should Not Become the New Normal in Higher Education	0
Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice	0
Recurring Vagueness: A Longitudinal Study of What Students Think about Sociology before, Right after, and Years after Taking the Introductory Course	0
The Art and Science of Social Research	0
The Impact of Social Relationships on College Student Learning during the Pandemic: Implications for Sociologists	0
Book Reviews: The Sociological Quest: An Introduction to the Study of Social Life	0
Counting Tents: Pedagogical Reflections on Faculty–Student Collaboration in a Real-World Project on Homelessness	0
Using Sociological Images to Develop the Sociological Imagination	0
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology by, for, and about First-Generation and Working-Class People	0
So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What?	0
Black Lives Matter and the Changing Sociological Canon: An Analysis of Syllabi from 2012 to 2023	0
Film Review: Hail Satan?	0
Sociological Animal Studies Courses Are More Effective Than Human-Centered Sociology Courses in Enhancing Empathy	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Playing Spent!: FGWC Experiences of Poverty Simulation Games	0
Leaving the Lectures Behind: Using Community-Engaged Learning in Research Methods Classes to Teach about Sustainability	0
Theorizing the Teaching Triad	0
Approaches to Focusing on Employability in the Sociology Major	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Film Review: Take Your Pills	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Book Review: Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights	0
Capturing Dis/Comfort and Navigating Transformation in the Gender Studies Classroom	0
Book Reviews: Innovations in Digital Research Methods	0
Campus Collaboration as a Gateway to Public Sociology: A Guide For “Unmuzzling” Graduate Student Instructors	0
Film Review: Cults and Extreme Belief	0
Priming Students for Foundational Learning by Investigating Foundational Assumptions: A Critical Thinking Framework	0
Exploring the Moral Underpinnings of Sociological Theory: A Collaborative Exercise for College-Level Courses	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
Film Reviews: Dispatches from Cleveland	0
Doing Sociology across Borders: Student Experiences and Learning with Virtual Exchange in Large Introductory Sociology Classes	0
Film Review: Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Film Review: Hot Coffee: Is Justice Being Served?	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology	0
Monsters, Michael Myers, and the Macabre as Tools to Explain Ideological Framing	0