Balancing the Macro and the Micro in the Sociology Classroom: Empowering Our Students
Join Professor Jodie Lawston of California State University, San Marcos to explore how to balance the macro and the micro levels in the classroom, with an emphasis on empowering our students to engage with the social structure of society.
In this webinar, we discuss how students often enter the sociology classroom having an individualistic understanding of the world, while sociologists, on the other hand, tend to be interested in putting these beliefs in a social context, and working. We explore strategies to get students to think critically about how the macro-level, or social structure, of society influences our lives and provide examples of how to balance the macro and the micro levels in the classroom, with an emphasis on empowering our students to engage with the social structure of society.
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Professor Jodie Lawston
Jodie M. Lawston is Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, San Marcos, and Faculty Director of Community Engaged Scholarship in the Division of Community Engagement. She holds a BA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California, San Diego. Her books include Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners (State University of New York Press 2009), Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars and Artists, co-edited with Ashley Lucas, and In Between the Shadows of Citizenship: Mixed Status Families, co-edited with April Shueths (University of Washington Press 2015). Her introduction to sociology textbook, Sociology: Structure and Change, was published by Pearson in 2018. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Sociology, Gender and Violence, LGBTQ Identities and Incarceration, Race, Class, and Gender in Contemporary Societies, and Popular Culture.
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