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CSTEM Expose Interview - Brendan Boyd, Kolosov Lab, CSTEM, CSUSM
No full textInterview with a RSCA-active stduent in the Kolosov lab in CSTEM, CSUSM
True Women as Sacred Friends: Harriet Jacobs’s Model of Consent-Based White Allyship in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Get PDFDrawing from African American author and anti-slavery advocate Harriet Jacobs, this essay demonstrates that even well-intentioned white abolitionists can inadvertently reinforce racist systems. Jacobs sought help from white abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to share her emancipation story, but received a response that exposed her past to Jacobs’s employer without consent. In her novelized memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs demonstrates the importance of Black voices and leaders in the abolitionist movement, showcasing feminist scholar Chandra Mohanty\u27s concept of a “coalition” of women using their diverse positions to combat social inequities. By examining Jacobs\u27s portrayal of the white women who aided her, I argue that Jacobs employs the rhetoric of true womanhood and sentimental novels to depict models of true allyship marked by consent-based sympathy. This essay delves into the nuances between sympathy and empathy in the context of nineteenth-century literature, referencing Gay Gibson Cima\u27s assertion that these terms cannot be collapsed. By connecting Jacobs\u27s use of sentimentality to Cima\u27s differentiation between Black expressions of sympathy and empathy, this essay reveals how Jacobs strategically fosters empathetic connections between white and enslaved women, promoting a coalition of consent-based allyship in nineteenth-century abolitionist discourse
Educational Experiences Become Experiential When the Learner is Fully Present: There is more to experiential learning than just "having" the experience.
No full textThe 21st century has seen a dramatic rise in experiential learning research and practice. After the previous century, where research on subjective experience was for the most part excluded from academic journals, there is today a resurgence of scholarly research on experience and experiential learning. Yet, how do we know when a given educational experience is experiential? We argue that there is something more to experiential learning than just having an experience. That “something more” is a process of experiencing, a process whereby the learner deeply engages with an experience and is fully present. Through research conducted from an international sample of learners who based response to their lived experience outside of the classroom, we extend findings from Stock & Kolb (2021) and introduce a revised version of the Experiencing Scale based on the discovery of the overarching importance of the role of presence and its ramifications for the experiencing process. Our analysis here suggests that when learning is experiential, it is characterized by active participation, sensory engagement, deep involvement, alert/ aware attention and being fully present in the here-and-now.
 
Experiential Learning and Well-Being: Equity implications for health and wellness as a strategy for deep and engaged learning.
No full textIn recent years, many campuses across the country have dedicated themselves to improving health and well-being outcomes, both for the individual student and for the campus community. This broad commitment has sparked much debate and exploration on what health and well-being means in an academic context. I offer three positions about the relationship between well-being and experiential learning. First, engaging in well-being prepares students emotionally, physically, and socially to engage in high impact practices and ultimately produces personal and professional growth that is often beyond measure. Second, engaging in health and well-being is in and of itself experiential learning. If done correctly, students will find themselves more whole, prepared, engaged, and confident. Third, engaging in experiential learning fosters a well-being environment, for students and for faculty. It is an area where scholarship meets practice and where students and faculty are engaging in the learning process by infusing their unique experiences into the academic environment, creating generative and redistributing well-being amongst one another, and ultimately engagement is high. 
Estimado Padre
Get PDFThe video poem I created for my CLS 1600-03 class is a poignant exploration of the immigrant experience through a sociological lens. By crafting the narrative in Spanish, I constructed a direct dialogue with my immigrant father, delving into the intricacies of his journey and the motivations behind leaving his life in Mexico. Through this intimate portrayal, the poem sheds light on the reality and complexities of the American dream from the perspective of immigrants, illustrating the challenges and sacrifices inherent in pursuing a better life
TreePeople: Bringing Sociology, Climate Research, and Community Voices into the Same Room
Get PDFThis is an exploration into being the first and only Cal State LA sociology student intern at TreePeople, a seasoned non-profit environmental justice organization. TreePeople’s Policy and Research department teams host multi-component environmental initiatives which use participatory community engagement and outreach to dynamically record new urban climate change research and maximize resilience outcomes in underserved neighborhoods. Los Angeles is one of the most historically notorious urban landscapes for resource and land discrimination, racial and class segregationist policies, and extractive/polluting enterprises. My internship sought to bridge the gap between researchers and community members while encouraging a new approach to climate studies that brings all stakeholders into conversation equally. My team and I are employing micro to macro motivations, technological details, and sociological theoretical frameworks during the pre-outreach and beginning sampling stages of our initiative launch. LA provides a potent location for implementing more sociologically rooted environmental research, especially in the face of imminent climate crises, that disproportionally affect marginalized communities. LA’s Urban Soil Future combines quantitative measurements of soil health and biodiversity in LA and documented qualitative feedback and collaborative ideation about nature-based solutions, giving community voices an empirical and social platform. It is my fervent wish that organizations like TreePeople become progressively interested in compassionately and respectively widening the breadth of stakeholder collaboration and collectivism in all their current and future scientific research. I believe there is no better arena than climate justice to foster in a plurality in connection and wisdom, because we all share the threat of an inhospitable future, if we cannot work together
Film Review: Don’t Worry Darling by Olivia Wilde
Get PDFThe film Don’t Worry Darling (2022) depicts unhappiness with married life, toxic masculinity, and the fight for gender equality. Seemingly set in the 1950s, several couples live in a pretentious, thriving community that shelters successful couples under an experiment. Everyone in the town of Victory lives in a simulation initiated by a character named Frank. In the actual present day, throughout the film, Frank is portrayed as a cult leader. In this experimentation he is leading, Frank has motivated and swayed men to give him their money to exist in a virtual reality stimulation similar to life during the 1950s. This voluntarily paid experiment transfers them mentally into another dimension, leaving their failed lives behind for the make-believe lifestyle they choose. The new life entails a successful career for the husband, a luxurious lifestyle, and joy, while the wives stay home cleaning, cooking, exercising, and living up to what the perfect woman entails. The film represents a vision of femininity that relies on essentialist assumptions about what it means to be a woman; it also underscores the risks of ignoring those who don’t perfectly align with this image
About the Editors
No full textThis is about the editors of the California Sociology Forum Student Journal of Sociology Volume 6 Spring 2024