This paper explores the difficulties that novice teachers confront at two economically, socially, and academically disadvantaged schools in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The researchers employed the action research tradition. Problems were identified using participant observation during reflexive workshops conducted with novice teachers and…

Presents a state of the art of sociology teaching and questions the extent to which there exists a mandate to reorient sociology for job preparation. Concludes that such a mandate exists among a portion of undergraduate majors and that job preparations should be stressed along with the liberal arts dimension of sociology. (Author/DB)