Dynamic Techniques for Teaching Structure and Agency in the Sociology Classroom
Join Jodie Lawston, California State University, San Marcos, to explore practical, easy to implement tools — including digital resources — that instructors can use to teach structure and agency, while creating a more dynamic learning experience for sociology students.
Professor Jodie Lawston, California State University, San Marcos
In this session, we’ll explore practical, easy to implement tools — including digital resources — that instructors can use to teach structure and agency, while creating a more dynamic learning experience for sociology students. We’ll discuss how students struggle to see how social structure affects both their lives and the lives of others, and how students do not often arrive in class with an analysis of how society shapes, molds, and has the power to influence people.
About the speaker
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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