The Advantage of a Focus on Advantage
A Note on Teaching Minority Groups
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11064085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Wooddell (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, corresponding author), Jacques Henry (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-309 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0092055x0503300310 |
| OpenAlex | W2082272668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
made us aware that teaching undergraduate sociology courses dealing with minority groups presents a particular set of challenges. The difficulty we confronted in teaching a course dealing with racial and ethnic groups is two-pronged: on one hand, there is the well-documented problematic nature of the concepts themselves; on the other hand the multiplicity, overlap, and inadequacies of theoretical approaches both at the macrosocial and middle-range levels conflicts with the rather simplistic treatment of race and difference in American public discourse. Our examination is neither a critical
Epistemology · Ethnic group · Focus group · Higher education · Mathematics education · Minority group · Pedagogy · Political science · Race (biology · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
Racial and ethnic groups
Racial and ethnic relations
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Perceptions of White Identity and White Liability
Ethnicity
Bringing Home Diversity
The Controversial Classroom
Teaching about Race and Ethnicity
Lessons about Race in Introductory Sociology
Oppression, Power, Inequality
The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census
Using Power and Caring to Mediate White Male Privilege, Equality, and Equity in an Urban Elementary Classroom
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Awareness of White Privilege among White Counseling Trainees
Teaching about Race and Ethnicity
From Student Resistance to Embracing the Sociological Imagination
A Qualitative Study of the Interplay Between Privilege and Oppression
Our Racial and National Minorities
Discrimination and National Welfare
Ethnicity
Gender, Ethnicity, and Education as Privileges
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |