Document Type
Article
Abstract
Teaching social structure is difficult due to the fact that these supposed influences are regularly invisible and often function without the knowledge of those being influenced. At the same time, most of us – in particular undergraduate college students – are resistant to the idea that our actions and choices are somehow constrained or influenced. This essay examines the challenge of teaching social structure to potentially resistant groups and defends the use of a common budget-based exercise to connect students to the potential of structural constraints on individual action.
Recommended Citation
Blad, Cory
(2012)
"Teaching Social Structure in a Poststructural Classroom: A (Mild) Defense of an Economic Deterministic Approach,"
The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies: Vol. 73:
No.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/the_councilor/vol73/iss1/2
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