This article details an exercise for the first day of class in an introductory sociology course. Students in two sections of Introduction to Sociology taught by the same professor and covering the same content, with the exception of the exercise on the first day of class, were surveyed at the end of the semester regarding the first day. Student responses in the section with the experiment reveal that students believe that the activity is useful in making them think deeper, recalling and applying sociological concepts to their own lives, and challenging their conceptions of roles of students and professors in the college classroom. These students also report positive recollections of the first day and of the professor. Additionally, the future trajectory of students in each section (in terms of their decision to major, minor, or take further classes in sociology) reveals surprisingly different paths.

本文详细介绍了社会学入门课程第一天的练习。在第一天的学期末，对由同一位教授授课且内容相同的两部分《社会学概论》中的学生进行了调查，但上课第一天的练习除外。实验部分的学生反应表明，学生认为这项活动有助于他们深入思考，回顾社会学概念并将其应用到自己的生活中，并挑战他们对大学教室中学生和教授角色的观念。这些学生还报告了第一天和教授的积极回忆。此外，每个部分的学生将来的发展轨迹（根据他们对专业，副修，