Six student projects which focus attention on the activities and processes through which conditions come to be defined as social problems are described. They demonstrate the relevance of the student's own values and life experiences in understanding social problems. (Author/DE)

Describes a case study of educational innovation in an introductory college sociology course. Generalizes about problems encountered in academic innovation on the basis of this experience, including the difficulty of working with student opinions, disagreement about effective evaluation techniques, and lack of interest in innovation due to the low…

Describes a social psychology experiment at the University of New Hampshire involving the use of skits to demonstrate concepts. Findings indicate that students in the experimental group perceived the skits as valuable and interesting. Results are compared with the original hypotheses. (Author/DB)