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Lucal, Betsy – Teaching Sociology, 1996
Outlines the components of a teaching model on race that focuses on white privilege, white supremacy, and the ideology that upholds them. Recommends addressing issues of class privilege and power as a way to help white students understand this without alienating them. Discusses classroom preparation and teaching strategies. (MJP)
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Higher Education, Ideology

Lucal, Betsy – Teaching Sociology, 1994
Maintains that most students learn how sociologists study social stratification in introductory sociology courses. Presents a content analysis of 15 introductory college textbooks to determine whether they use distributional or relational approaches as the basis for their treatment of social class. Finds that depictions of class are…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Marxian Analysis