2015 Hans O. Mauksch Address

Sweet, Stephen

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“…Both scenarios imply that sociology is less popular than psychology. This discrepancy in popularity is a known issue in other institutions, and strategies have been proposed to increase access, visibility, and vitality of sociology programs [74,75].…”

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“…Both the relative number of dropouts, the activity measures, and the sizes of the outcome group "graduation-graduation" can be connected to the lower popularity of sociology programs. Measures to decrease this discrepancy exist [74,75] and may be implemented in policy and practice. However, aside from popularity issues, it needs to be noted that structural components of curricula can be responsible for the differences observed in this study between the two programs.…”

Section: Implications For Policy Practice and Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multiple Enrollment Policy: Clustering Dropout and Graduation Constellations in Psychology and Sociology Bachelor’s Programs

Loder

2024

Trends in Higher Education

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In Austria, it is possible to enroll in an unlimited number of programs simultaneously and consecutively. Study duration and student performance are important performance indicators of the university system. The disciplines of psychology and sociology share similarities in their curriculum structures but are different in selectiveness due to their admission rules. They show differences in their motivations to enroll and their trajectories through higher education, leading to different constellations of “dropout” and “graduation.” The aim was to identify and compare groups of students’ outcomes in bachelor’s programs of psychology and sociology along the dimensions of workload and duration, incorporating the possibility of enrolling in multiple programs. The sample consisted of 6498 students between the academic years of 2010/11 and 2022/23 who either graduated or dropped out of one or more programs. Cluster analyses using four algorithms per individual outcome constellation, categorization, and aggregation of the results suggest a longer overall study duration for students with more than one program. In graduation–graduation and graduation–dropout clusters, groups with less overall workload could be identified. The transferability of passed exams may be an important component for students in multiple programs. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

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Section: Graduation and Graduation-graduationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For Policy Practice and Researchmentioning

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Multiple Enrollment Policy: Clustering Dropout and Graduation Constellations in Psychology and Sociology Bachelor’s Programs

Loder

2024

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“…Furthermore, Greenberg et al (2020) discovered that public sociology opportunities specifically appeal to historically marginalized students who can tap their vast cultural wealth, including their lived experiences and bilingualism, to help solve real-world issues. These are important findings to contemplate as sociology departments grapple with retaining their majors, sustaining their institutional relevance in the face of budget cuts, and building inclusive environments that do not “cool out” low-income students or students of color (Berheide, Chin, and Rome 2002:3; Howery and Levine 2002; Sweet 2016).…”

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Campus Collaboration as a Gateway to Public Sociology: A Guide For “Unmuzzling” Graduate Student Instructors

Livingstone

2023

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Graduate students face obstacles when attempting to pursue public sociology in general, but specifically when they desire to utilize public sociology as both a research and teaching orientation that fully incorporates undergraduate students. Drawing on a two-year public sociology project on student financial security challenges, the author advocates for graduate students interested in public sociology to engage in campus collaborations, where connections between undergraduate students and campus partners are forged based on relevant campus resources easily accessible to graduate students. Based on the specifics of the author’s campus collaboration, six tips emerge for graduate students interested in replicating this approach to public sociology early in their careers. Gaining familiarity with conducting public sociology that fully incorporates undergraduate students in graduate school, a model that has been shown to benefit students, community partners, and sociology as a discipline, will prepare graduate student instructors to implement the model when they become faculty.

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The Importance of Relevance to Student Lives: The Impact of Content and Media in Introduction to Sociology

Belet

2017

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To increase students’ engagement and achievement in introductory sociology courses, teachers should make them relevant to students’ lives. Students’ relevance perceptions may vary within the classroom, depending on the degree of fit between their sociocultural position and the teaching methods. To test this prospect, an experiment among 1,325 undergraduates distinguished the sociocultural mechanisms underlying content- and medium-related course relevance. The students viewed one of four versions of an introductory video lecture about Durkheim with (1) feminine/masculine content and (2) YouTube/verbal-anecdotal medium manipulated in its examples. The results indicate first, that students’ perceptions of the sociology course as relevant were associated with their course satisfaction and achievement. Second, matching students’ gender with gendered example content stimulated their relevance perceptions, while a mismatch decreased those perceptions. Finally, tentative evidence was found that the use of YouTube examples engaged disadvantaged students in the course without harming advantaged students’ learning.

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2015 Hans O. Mauksch Address

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Multiple Enrollment Policy: Clustering Dropout and Graduation Constellations in Psychology and Sociology Bachelor’s Programs

Multiple Enrollment Policy: Clustering Dropout and Graduation Constellations in Psychology and Sociology Bachelor’s Programs

Campus Collaboration as a Gateway to Public Sociology: A Guide For “Unmuzzling” Graduate Student Instructors

The Importance of Relevance to Student Lives: The Impact of Content and Media in Introduction to Sociology

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