Simmel
- Fashion/Mean Girls Activity: Class activity discussing concepts from “Fashion” through analysis of clips from Mean Girls.
- Simmel Review Worksheet: Created for Soc 102 as taught by Marion Fourcade. But, due to the similarity in the general FORM of Simmel's arguments, it can be used to review many of his other essays as well. Most undergraduate courses that assign Simmel have students read a few of his essays. Because of the breadth of topics he discusses in them, it can be hard to (1) keep track of what he says where, and (2) see how it's all connected in a broader theoretical perspective. As such, reviewing everything is especially helpful for Simmel.
- Simmel Worksheet: Asks students to think about the relationship between form and content and draw network diagrams for some of Simmel's social types. Worked pretty well.