This is a space by and for those of us who are teaching some form of an introduction to "the social" (SOC 101 and the like) at the college level, perhaps to an audience with less important things to do. Like Paul Gilroy describes in the opening to The Black Atlantic, we probably are excited about the Big Ideas and Authors we want to reveal to our students, but we often find ourselves addressing those for whom "...the flight from sociology was... a deliberate sign of their disengagement from the life of the mind. To make things worse, these lectures were very early in the morning..."

If you've been there, you know we all need all the help we can get!

The group name is a nod to the slogan I use in my first-year seminar: Think Outside the Doxa! This is not intended to slam the documentary film festival by that name, but rather as an invocation of Bourdieu's notion of the social truths that are taken (mistaken) for natural truths.

We all need to think outside the doxa. So please, share: what has worked; what has not? Let's put our heads together virtually and test the potential of this field we find ourselves in.

Drop me an email if you wish to join, and after I sign you up, send a message to the list to introduce yourself.