Teaching Sociology of the Arts at an Urban Community College During the Pandemic

Reflections on Structure, Agency, and Community Engagement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11064686
AutoresJulia Rothenberg (0000-0003-1341-5240, Queensborough Community College (CUNY), Queens, NY, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas160-171
Data de publicação2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTeaching Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0092055x241233885
OpenAlexW4393084525
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas27

This conversation outlines an undergraduate research project that I designed and implemented during the fall of 2020 and the spring of 2021 in an online Sociology of the Arts class at Queensborough Community College in New York City. The project involves original student research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on three community-based arts organizations and the communities they serve. To showcase the problems and possibilities that emerged in assigning the project, I engage the contrasting and complementary lenses of Pierre Bourdieu’s structurally based theories of culture, capital, and social reproduction on the one hand and the pedagogical strategies that emerge from humanistic sociology on the other. The conversation concludes with reflections on issues faced by educators committed to teaching an interdisciplinary and humanistic sociology at the community college level and the ways experiential learning strategies can help students develop community connections and agency through the arts

Agency (philosophy · Community engagement · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Media studies · Pandemic · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Structure and agency · The arts · Urban community · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Social and Cultural Dynamics