Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.
Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations
About Howard Aldrich
Customers Also Bought Items By
Are you an author?
Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Author Updates
-
-
Blog postMap of a world traveler, by Denise Jans, Unsplash. Professor Courtney Page Tan, Assistant Professor of Human Resilience in the Department of Security and Emergency Services at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has compiled a list of powerful literature mapping tools. You can use these tools to increase the scale and scope of the literature for your projects. Many provide stunning graphical displays of search results (Edward Tufte would approve).
Connected Papers lets you explore -
Blog postHere is an in-class exercise for our post-pandemic world. It illustrates how sociological concepts can increase a student’s understanding of the social world and supplement individual explanations.
Click here to go to the game.
unsplash.com@macauphotoagency Americans tend to believe that opportunities to get ahead are available for everyone and that people’s positions in the stratification order are a function of their abilities, traits, and efforts, rather than social an -
Blog postWhen AOM announced that the Vancouver meetings would be canceled and the conference would move online, I started thinking about all the things I would miss. But I also began thinking about some of the possible advantages. Maybe having everything online and so easily accessible would mean that I would spend more time in sessions and less time on the street and in coffee shops, thus enhancing my organization and management theory education. Maybe going online with everybody interacting through
-
-
Blog postAnyone who’s made a visit to London and ridden the Underground has heard this warning on some of the older lines: “mind the gap!” The warning is issued because in some stations, when the train comes to a halt, there is a dangerous gap between the edge of the platform and the lip of the door opening. If you misstep, there’s a good chance of catching your foot in the gap and injuring yourself. Most decidedly, it is not an invitation to fill in the gap!
Photo by Bruno Figueiredo on Unsplash -
Blog postCreating an environment that enhances student learning requires up-to-date content, pedagogy based on the latest research in teaching and learning, and an emotional investment in positive student learning outcomes. Students need to feel that instructors care if they succeed, and they prefer those who demonstrate authenticity in their teaching style. In traditional classes, there are several ways instructors can show their commitment: learning students’ names, revealing personal details about
-
Blog postProfessor Elizabeth Anderson’s explanation of pragmatism’s approach to moral reasoning, in a recent lecture, helped me understand why I occasionally feel dissatisfied with discussions in classes and conferences. People offer counterpoints to my arguments by offering simulated examples that I think are unrealistic but difficult to argue against. After listening to Anderson, I now realize how difficult it is to learn by just using simulations. For her solution, Anderson argued that we need to f
-
-
Blog postIn response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, makerspaces across the United States have mobilized to manufacture protective masks, face shields, emergency intubators, and other safety equipment for health care workers and patients. Across the country, makers were looking for a way to help and realized they could use a makerspace’s 3D printers and laser cutter to make face shields and other needed equipment. For example, Makespaces.com put together a quick and easy tutorial showing how to ma
-
Blog postI met Chick when he presented a seminar at the University of Michigan back in the mid-1960s. I kept in touch with him through occasional letters and meetings at regional, national, and international conferences over the next six decades. How does one encapsulate all those years with just a few observations? I’ve chosen to pick out a few things that came immediately to mind when I thought about what the world has lost.
Chick always had something to say & he said it well To start, h -
-
Blog postWhen I discuss a term paper assignment with my students, I explain that readers need to understand a paper’ s purpose and the logic of its organizational structure. To prepare them for writing a rough draft, I ask them to write a detailed outline, with section headings, introductory paragraphs, and prospective topic sentences. Despite this request, when I read their drafts, I still find that I have a hard time understanding how they got from their opening problem statement, through thei
-
Blog postMy syllabi for undergraduate students almost never include any professional journal articles. In contrast, many of my colleagues choose many of their readings from journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, or the American Journal of Sociology. When I challenge my colleagues about their choice of reading material for undergraduates, they offer three rationales.
Photo by Jason Briscoe on Unsplash First, they argue that undergraduate students ought to get it taste -
-
-
Titles By Howard Aldrich
$27.95
