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Filling In The Gaps In Long-Term Care Insurance: Policy Implications For Care Workers, Jennifer M. Mellor
Filling In The Gaps In Long-Term Care Insurance: Policy Implications For Care Workers, Jennifer M. Mellor
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Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.
Incorporating Writing Into The Mass Class: An Alternate Model For Quiz/Discussion Sessions, Deenesh Sohoni
Incorporating Writing Into The Mass Class: An Alternate Model For Quiz/Discussion Sessions, Deenesh Sohoni
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One of the main disjunctions that exists in undergraduate education within the discipline of sociology is the increased stress we now place on the importance of writing, and the inadequacy of the training we provide our students to become better writers. The call for improved student writing ranges from professors surprised and dismayed with reading student essays, which they consider to be inadequate to the complexity of course material, to those who see the task of sociology as providing a general liberal education, with writing an important skill for the development of a well rounded member of society. Although greater …