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Kenan Professor of Sociology, Dept of Sociology @ UNC Chapel Hill

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An in-class exercise for our post-pandemic world: learning about the role of luck in generating social inequality

Here 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.

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This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship, Inequality, Teaching & learning and tagged achievement, classroom, evolution, game, inequality, learning, luck, stratification, teaching on October 9, 2020 by Howard Aldrich.

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