This timely resource, written by a team of authors who are working at the forefront of the public sociology movement, provides a contemporary analysis of public sociology. The book highlights a variety of ways in which sociology brings about social change in community settings, assists nonprofit and social service organizations in their work, and influences policy at the local, regional, and national levels. The book also spotlights sociology that informs the general public on key policy issues through media and creates research centers that develop and carry out collaborative research.
Cuprins
Foreword by Michael Burawoy
Foreword by Steven Redfield
Foreword by Dan E. Moore
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Public Scholarship, the Sociological Imagination, and Engaged Scholarship
Chapter 2. Crossing Boundaries in 21st-Century Research
Chapter 3. Starting Up and Sustaining Public Sociology Projects
Chapter 4. Career Guide for Public Sociologists
Case Studies 1. Equitable Community Development
1.1 Educating About Homelessness: A University-City Government Research Partnership
1.2 Differential Impact of Gentrification and Displacement on Communities of Color
1.3 Research in Action: Inner City Entrepreneurs
1.4 Art and Equitable Community Development
Case Studies 2: Environmental Issues
2.1 Public Sociology for Environmental Health and Environmental Justice
2.2 Learning From Disaster: Documenting the Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Displaced College Students From New Orleans
2.3 Working for Global Environmental Justice: Channeling Privilege, Producing New Knowledge
Case Studies 3: Regional Research and Data Collection to Enhance Public Knowledge
3.1 Neighborhood, Region, and Place: The Chicago Experience
3.2 The Sacramento State Annual Survey of the Region
3.3 Reducing Hunger in Oregon
3.4 Poverty East.org: Poverty Information to Health Communities Address Critical Needs
3.5 Sociology in Public Service
Case Studies 4: Inequalities of Race, Class and Gender
4.1 Bringing a Feminist Sociology to Smart-Girl: Building a University-Nonprofit Partnership
4.2 Feminist Research in Action: An Intersectional Approach to Girlcentric Programming
4.3 Youth Participation in Community Research for Racial Justice
4.4 Building Resources to Create and Maintain Stable Diverse Communities
Case Studies 5: The Media
5.1 The Media, ACORN, and Presidential Politics
5.2 Pressuring Alcohol Companies to Reform Marketing Practices
5.3 The Reel Girls Project: Self, Image, Adolescence, and Filmmaking
5.4 The Internet as a Leveler Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Communities
Case Studies 6: Health
6.1 Teen Pregnancy Prevention
6.2 Doing God′s Work and Doing Good Work(s): Unique Challenges to Evaluation Research in Ministry Settings
6.3 Feast on the Southeast: Creating a Sustainable Local Food System in Southeastern North Carolina
6.4 Challenging Discrimination Against Women, Minorities, and the Sick in Health Insurance
6.5 Tobacco Use Prevention in Montana′s Frontier Communities: Developing New Rural Strategies
Case Studies 7: Crime, Reducing Violence and Promoting Justice
7.1 Forty Years of Codifying and Mapping Homicides in Chicago: Impacts on Policing, Research, and Community Well-Being
7.2 Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice in Wisconsin: Analysis, Graphs, and Engagement
7.3 The Role of Relationship Building in Research Partnerships
7.4 Hate Crime Motivation: The Practical Consequences of an Offender Typology
Case Studies 8: Community Organizing
8.1 Cultivating Public Sociology From the Classroom: The Case of a Student-Organized Tenants Union
8.2 The Unity of Theory and Practice: The U.S. Social Forum and Movement Building for Social Transformation
8.3 When the Community Leads
8.4 The ‘Third Place’ Project
Conclusion: The Case for the New, Engaged, 21st-Century Scholarship
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
Despre autor
Gwen Nyden is a professor of sociology at Oakton Community College. For a number of years she has been active with the American Association of Community Colleges in promoting community-engagement component in course offerings around the country.
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