A Quarterly Publication of The American Sociological Association Below are the contents of Volume 37 of Teaching Sociology. You may read the abstracts of the articles and notes by clicking on the links. You may contact the authors of articles and notes by clicking on their names. Volume 37, Number 1 - January 2009 Volume 37, Number 2 - April 2009 Volume 37, Number 3 - July 2009 Volume 37, Number 1 January 2009 SPECIAL ISSUE on 50 YEARS OF C. WRIGHT MILLS AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION                   NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS                   COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR                   INTRODUCTION         50 Years of C. Wright Mills and The Sociological Imagination  ..... Stephen J. Scanlan and Liz Grauerholz               ARTICLES         Sisyphus Had It Easy: Reflections of Two Decades of Teaching the Sociological Imagination ..... Steven P. Dandaneau     Last But Not Least: The Pedagogical Insights of "Intellectual Craftsmanship"  ..... Peter Kaufman and Todd Schoepflin     Teaching Mills in Tokyo: Developing a Sociological Imagination Through Storytelling  ..... Debbie Storrs     Students' Lived Experiences as Text in Teaching the Sociological Imagination ..... Katrina C. Hoop     C. Wright Mills's Friendly Critique of Service Learning and an Innovative Response: Cross Institutional Collaborations for Community-Based Research ..... Sam Marullo, Roxanna Moayedi, and Deanna Cooke     The Sociological Imagination and Social Responsibility ..... Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt and Lora Ebert Wallace     Toward Teaching a Liberating Sociological Practicality: Challenges for Teaching, Learning and Practice ..... Marv Finkelstein               BOOK REVIEWS         Key Sociological Thinkers. 2nd ed. Rob Stones. ..... Todd M. Callais     The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen. ..... Ndindi Kitonga     Rural Communities, Legacy and Change. 3rd ed. Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora. ..... Carol L. Jenkins     The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking DOctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century. George E. Ealker, Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, and Pat Hutchings. ..... Maxine P. Atkinson     Always at Odds? Creating Alignment between Faculty and Administrative Values. Mary C. Wright. ..... John F. Zipp               FILM AND VIDEO REVIEWS         The American Ruling Class: A Dramatic Documentary Musical. Bullfrog Films. ..... Jacqueline Bergdahl     Banished. California Newsreel. ..... Andrew Austin     Intimidad. Carnivalesque Films. ..... Mel Moore     The War on Democracy. Bullfrog Films. ..... Timothy J. Koponen     Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. California Newsreel. ..... David L. Brunsma               GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS SUBMITTED TO TEACHING SOCIOLOGY         Volume 37, Number 2 April 2009 NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS                   COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR                   ARTICLES         Whom Does Service Learning Really Serve? Community-Based Organizations' Perspectives on Service Learning ..... David D. Blouin and Evelyn M. Perry     Beyond the Field Trip: Teaching Tourism through Tours Web Supplements Analytic Paper Soc 218 Assignment 1 Travelogue Boorstin Scavenger Hunt Individual Project Syllabus Soc 218  ..... Shaul Kelner and George Sanders     Responding to the Quantitative Literacy Gap among Students in Sociology Courses  ..... Esther Isabelle Wilder               NOTES         "I'll Take Ideology for $200, Alex": Using the Game Show Jeopardy! to Facilitate Sociological and Critical Thinking ..... Dan Pence     Politicizing Sociology through a Bill of Rights Learning Module ..... Stephen Sweet     Driving a Car in Saudi: An Illustration of the Power of Norms and Values Using Multicultural Data ..... Kathleen A. Tiemann, Abdallah M. Badahdah, and Daphne E. Pedersen     Innovations in Teaching Race and Class Inequality: Bittersweet Candy and The Vanishing Dollar ..... Roxanna Harlow     Shaped Goals: Teaching Undergraduates the Effects of Social Stratification on the Formulation of Goals ..... Giselle Touzard               BOOK REVIEWS         Key Sociological Thinkers. 2nd ed. Rob Stones. ..... Todd M. Callais     The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen. ..... Ndindi Kitonga     Rural COmmunities, Legacy and Change. 3rd ed. Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora. ..... Carol L. Jenkins     The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking DOctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century. George E. Ealker, Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, and Pat Hutchings. ..... Maxine P. Atkinson     Always at Odds? Creating Alignment between Faculty and Administrative Values. Mary C. Wright. ..... John F. Zipp               FILM AND VIDEO REVIEWS         The American Ruling Class: A Dramatic Documentary Musical. Bullfrog Films. ..... Jacqueline Bergdahl     Banished. California Newsreel. ..... Andrew Austin     Intimidad. Carnivalesque Films. ..... Mel Moore     The War on Democracy. Bullfrog Films. ..... Timothy J. Koponen     Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. California Newsreel. ..... David L. Brunsma               GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS SUBMITTED TO TEACHING SOCIOLOGY         Volume 37, Number 3 July 2009           GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS SUBMITTED TO TEACHING SOCIOLOGY                   COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR                   SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE CLASSROOM         Introduction. From the Outside Looking In: The Sociology of the Classroom  ..... Kris Macomber, Sarah E. Rusche, and Maxine P. Atkinson     Sociology of the College Classroom: Applying Sociological Theory at the Classroom Level ..... Maxine P. Atkinson, Alison R. Buck, and Andrea N. Hunt     The Classroom as Stage: Impression Management in Collaboratie Teaching ..... Sharon Preves and Denise Stephenson     The Pedagogy of (In)Visibility: Two Accounts of Teaching about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality ..... Andrea Miller and Betsy Lucal     Teaching: From Disappointment to Ecstasy ..... Cheryl Albers     Denying Social Harm: Students' Resistance to Lessons about Inequality ..... Sherryl Kleinman and Martha Copp               NOTES         Consumption, Ecological Footprints and Global Inequality: A Lesson in Individual and Structural Components of Environmental Problems ..... Brian K. Obach     Language, Interaction, and Inequality: A Teaching Exercise for the Sociological Classroom ..... Christine Mallinson     The Public Poster Session Web Supplements Asian Identity (Florence Li) Refugee Immigration in Canada (Katelyn Merritt, Soteira Hortop, and Allison McAuley) Aboriginal Residential Schooling in Canada (Tiffany Eaton) Africville (Adrienne Browne) Meanings of the Veil (Adam Stern) Whiteness: A Real Social Construction (Joshua Kwak) Hate and the Nature of the Internet (David Spencer) ..... Cynthia Levine-Rasky               BOOK REVIEWS         Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives. David E. Rohall, Melissa A. Milkie, and Jeffrey W. Lucas. ..... Bruce Friesen     Simpsonology: There's a Little Bit of Springfield in All of Us. Tim Delaney. ..... Charles P. Gallmeier     Teaching Nonmajors: Advice for Liberal Arts Professors. P. Sven Ardvidson. ..... Darby Southgate     Learning to Live with Statistics: From Concept to Practice. David Asquith. ..... Christopher Bradley     Families in Today's World: A Comparative Approach. David Cheal. ..... Penelope Ray Koch     The Sociology of Religion: A Substantive and Transdisciplinary Approach. George Lundskow. ..... Gordon Clanton     Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Claire M. Renzetti and Jeffrey L. Edelson, eds. ..... Laura L. O'Toole               FILM REVIEWS         Wings of Defeat. New Day Films. ..... Morton G. Ender     When I Came Home. Lohaus Films LLC. ..... Judith E. Rosenstein     Weather Report. Bullfrog Films. ..... Mike F. Keen               NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS         Volume 37, Number 4 October 2009           NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS                   COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR                   ARTICLES         "Laughing Matters": The Comedian as Social Observer, Teacher, and Conduit of the Sociological Perspective  ..... Shawn Chandler Bingham and Alex A. Hernandez     Practicing Sociological Imagination through Writing Sociological Autobiography ..... Alem Kebede               NOTES         Teaching Race as a Social Construction: Two Interactive Class Exercises ..... Nikki Khanna and Cherise A. Harris     The Behaviors that College Students Classify as Political Bias: Preliminary Findings and Implications ..... Craig Tollini     Using Journals to Show Students What Social Psychology is All About ..... Wendy J. Harrod     Michael Apted's 7UP! Film Series as a Teaching Prompt for Understanding, Collaboration, and New Learning in a Sociology Course Setting   William C. Diehl, Candace Head-Dylla, Maya Nehme, Jose M. Salazar, and Jinai Sun               BOOK REVIEWS         Constructing Social Theory. David C. Bell. ..... Michael Klausner     Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Charles C. Ragin ..... David K. Brown     Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Date. Joel Best. ..... Isaac Heacock     Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity. Chris Schilling. ..... C. Clayton Childress     Understanding Human Sexuality. 10th ed. Janet Shibley Hyde and John D. DeLamater ..... Todd E. Bernhardt     The Sage Companion to the City. Tim Hall, Phil Hubbard, and John Rennie Short, eds. ..... Amy Foerster     Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurrican Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, eds. ..... Lori Peek and Paul Stretesky     The Prisoners' World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge. William Tregea and Marjorie Larmour. ..... Wanda Hunter               FILM REVIEWS         Unnatural Causes: . . . Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Larry Adelman, producer. ..... Matthew D. Gayman     Running on Empty. Brenda Kelly, executive producer. ..... Karen A. Callaghan     Diamond Road. Nisha Pahuja, director. ..... Kyoung-Ho Shin     Writ Writer: One Man's Journey for Justice. Susanne Mason, director. ..... Rebecca L. Bordt     Edge of Islam. Alex Gabby, director. ..... Nels Paulson               REVIEWERS FOR VOLUME 37                   INDEX FOR VOLUME 37                   GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMITTED TO TEACHING SOCIOLOGY         The Editor of Teaching Sociology is Liz Grauerholz. Beginning July 1, 2009, new submissions to Teaching Sociology should be sent to the incoming editor of the journal, Kathleen S. Lowney. Her address is: Kathleen S. Lowney Editor, Teaching Sociology Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminal Justice Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698-0060 For questions about manuscript processing, contact Deborah Barr, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Howard Phillips Hall 403, Orlando, FL 32816-1360. Phone: 407-823-2227, Fax: 407-823-3026. The Webmaster is Pauline H. Pavlakos. Observations on form and egregious spelling may be directed to Ms. Pavlakos. 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