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Peer reviewedWright, Richard A. – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Uses a class exercise that tests the folk wisdom concerning small-town friendliness. Students are assigned to express random friendliness to strangers so they can determine whether friendlier responses are elicited in small towns or large cities. (KO)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Study, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedAllen, Irving – Teaching Sociology, 1979
Describes METROPROB, a noncompetitive teaching game based on the theory of metropolitan locality-relevant problems and stressing their interactions. Discusses potential for teaching systemic analysis of urban problems and helping students think sociologically. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Classroom Games, Community Study, Concept Formation, Cooperative Planning
Griffith Univ., Brisbane (Australia). School of Humanities. – 1984
This course, one of 16 sequential courses comprising phase one of a part-time Bachelor of Arts degree program in Australian Studies, surveys different forms of community, ranging from closely knit, cohesive groups to institutionalized groups, their characteristic forms of social control, and their methods of social organization. The concept of…
Descriptors: Community Study, Course Content, Course Descriptions, External Degree Programs
