Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Our work here not only confirms the well-documented advantages of using popular culture to teach sociology, it expands these advantages in at least two ways. First, we link Dr. Seuss with popular culture and show that as a form of popular culture, his stories can be effectively used to impart complex sociological concepts and the sociological imagination to university students. Second, our work lays the foundations for the examination of using popular culture, especially Dr. Seuss stories, in the intergenerational transmission of sociology to students much younger than university age (i.e., preschool to 12th grade).