Mr. Andoscia (FGCU/Edison): Welcome Post

5. January 2009 by Mr. Andoscia.

Welcome everyone to the first ever Andoscia Sociology: Living Text Blog.  This blog is to be a forum for students to offer sociological insights, critics and understandings that they encounter as they learn the sociological imagination.  The forum is set up to be as liberal and didactic as possible.  Also, it is intended to be fun.  It is my desire to use technology to get beyond textbooks and create a living text of sociology.  There’s no reason in the postmodern age to be tied to textbooks in the classroom.

This may be a new idea for most of you, so here’s the idea…you are in class and during a lecture you have a sociological insight that you want to bounce around.  Create a blog.  Perhaps you have a question about sociology that you are not quite getting and I’m not quite able to communicate it to you. Blog it and see if any of your classmates   (or anyone visiting the blog) has a better way to explain it.  Perhaps there’s something that you think is a weekness to sociology, blog it.  Maybe there’s a sociological theory or explanation that you really like, blog it. Or one you really hate, blog it.

I also want students to feel fre to comment on each other’s blogs. I will also comment periodically, especially if I see any misunderstandings of the subject matter.

The blog is meant to be a fun experience.  It is an open forum, but let’s use it responsibly.  And please, let’s avoid foul language.   Yes, sometimes the words are appropriate, but you are college students and should be able to communicate on a higher leve.

For formatting purposes, and also to make it easier for me to assign points format the title the way I have.  Give me your first and last name, parentheses your college or university, a colon, then the title of your post.

Also, please place your post in the appropriate category.  On your left there are two categories, Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems.  If you are in  Introduction to Sociology, check that category box.  If you are in Social Problems, check that box.

I hope this is a fruitful and enjoyable endeavor for everyone and I look forward to seeing the blogs.

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