Graphs & Charts

Graphs & Charts are visual aids for understanding social issues.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, larger and slightly different view

Writer's Corner

These resources help you meet format requirements for all writing, formal and informal.

Bluford Library (NCSU) CRAAP test CRAAP is a guide/checklist for evaluating the quality of sources. It aligns fairly well with the Guide to Information Literacy. Feel free to do an internet search for 'CRAAP' and see what else you find; this seemed pretty straightforward to me.

Salisbury University Citation Style Guide: Home Library's Guide for citing and referencing -- all styles. Sociology uses Chicago/Turabian

Some Basic Writing Advice: Process and Product Writing is a process; achieving quality writing develops critical thinking AND demonstrates it at the same time.

National Punctuation Day is a rather humorous reminder of how 'bad' punctuation can lead to misunderstanding.

Study Aids

Study Aids include local (this web site) and outside resources.

How to Study from HowToStudy.com

Taking Notes Video

Cornell Notes PDF Generator - make your own custom Notes pages

Games & Simulation

Games & Simulation include local (this web site) and outside Games and other interactive activities.

Demographic Transition Model by rgamesby at Coogeography.co.uk; check it out!

Sociology Games

Confronting Inequality / Achieving Sustainability

List of Sources, by Week, Assigned to students in IDIS 280.001 Spring 2019

For Week 1: Introductory Power Point

For Week 2: J R McNeill's Something New Under the Sun, excerpts from Chapter 1

For Week 3: Straub, Health Psychology: A Biopsychosocial Approach, recommended reading pages 16-25

For Week 4: Principles of Environmental Justice

Principles of Working Together, People of Color Environmental Justice

explore the Environmental Justice Atlas

For Week 5: Grist video, Can Climate Change cause war?

and Thompson, Packing heat: Why violence boils over on a warming planet

For Week 6: Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion

OPTIONAL, supplemental: Agroecologically efficient agricultural systems for smallholder farms: contributions to food sovereignty

For Week 7: Trauma Studies Moving Foward: Genre and Pretrauma Cinema

For Week 8: Anthropologists are talking about the Anthropocene

For Week 9: The Environmental Protection Agency in the Early Trump Administration: Prelude to Regulatory Capture

and Trump's EPA is selling out people of color

and, if you are interested Vox's Environmental Racism is dangerous. Trump's EPA doesn't seem to care.

For Week 10: The Polyhistorical Mind

and as a supplemental source, Indigenous Knowledge, Power, and Responsibility

For Week 11: Why Are We Still Slaughtering the American Bison?

How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from the brink of extinction

and A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture

For Week 12: Earthships: How to Build Your Own

For Week 13: Chapter from Randolph, Environmental Land Use Planning and Management

For Week 14: Flacks, 2019; Corporate versus Community Power: A Santa Barbara Story