This week in my sociology course on Work and Society (SOCI 340) we are reading and talking about the role of the body and technology for work. Humans use their bodies, in tandem with tools, to do almost any kind of work you can imagine. From the earliest hunter-gatherer societies up until the postindustrial workplace of today, our bodies, and the strength, motion, and creativity that they generate, are the starting point for everything we do. At the same time, we tend to take for granted our bodies and the skills that we perform through them; because such skills are “embodied,” it can be hard to articulate just what we’re doing. Read more

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SOAN students Julia O’Connor (L) and Elizabeth Evans (R) speak during a Women’s Studies brown bag discussion about equity in higher education.

Professor Benson’s Fall 2013 Sociology of Education class did an outstanding job leading a Women’s Studies Brown Bag on their semester-long research investigating equity in higher education.  If you missed their presentation, you can check out the video here. The class would like to extend a huge thank you to instructional technologists Ahmad Khazaee and Debbie Krahmer for providing visual design instruction and support.

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These videos were created by students in the course Sociology of Age, Aging, and the Lifecourse, taught by Meika Loe, associate professor of sociology and women’s studies. For the lab component of the course, each student was matched with an elder learning partner and tasked with compiling a life history and creating a digital story.

For videos from previous semesters, click here

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Michael Newberg ’11 created the video “Rising from the Subsoil,” which focuses on the relationship between avocational and professional archaeologists working on Native American sites in Central New York.

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