Afshan Jafar

Afshan Jafar is an American sociologist and professor at Connecticut College. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan and enrolled in a liberal arts college in the United States when she was 18 years old. In her first year of college, she took courses in dance, sociology, philosophy, classics and economics. Jafar went on to take courses in anthropology, English, environmental chemistry geology history psychology religious studies theater among others and majored in sociology/anthropology classics gender women’s studies with a minor in economics.

Biography:  https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/01/25/heres-why-sociology-is-worth-saving-florida/

38%

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Bias

85%

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  • In Florida's public colleges, Principles of Sociology will no longer be part of the selection of social science courses fulfilling general education or 'core' requirements. The same rule was passed for state universities.
  • The author took courses in sociology and anthropology.

Conflicts of Interest

15%

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Contradictions

85%

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  • In Florida's public colleges, Principles of Sociology will no longer be part of the selection of social science courses fulfilling general education or 'core' requirements. The same rule was passed for state universities.
  • The author took courses in sociology and anthropology.

Deceptions

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