How does a graduate student acquire the skills necessary to define a clear research agenda and write meaningful contributions to the scholarship in his or her field? Can the requirements of professional advancement in the ivory tower be reconciled with making a difference in the bare-knuckle world of policymaking? Can even a celebrated activist-scholar survive the seemingly relentless neoliberalization of higher education? Becoming a Footnote takes the reader on an inspirational journey through the experiences of researcher Sanford F. Schram, illuminating how he overcame his early insecurities and limitations, particularly about his writing, to develop into someone cited by both scholars and people involved in the policymaking process. With wit and humor, Schram illustrates how his award-winning research on race, poverty, and welfare emerged from the political struggles in which he was immersed, and how we all have something unique to contribute if we commit ourselves to making it happen.
Table of Content
Preface
Introduction
1. How I Had Four Majors in College
2. Going Postal, Getting Drafted: How I Ended Up in Graduate School
3. How I Learned To Read
4. I Went Down to the Crossroads: Activism and Scholarship
5. Standing on Shoulders: Scholarship as Networking
6. Theory and Practice: Research and the Court
7. Is Anybody Listening? Testifying before Congress
8. Calling Out Racial Bias: Images, Words, and Numbers
9. The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Enduring Identities in Dependency Discourse
10. Three Heads Are Better than One: Collaboration, Mixed Methods, and Disciplining the Poor
11. Moving On: Turning To Europe
12. Making It Matter: Real Social Scene in the Neoliberal Academy
Conclusion: A Postscript on Writing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author
Sanford F. Schram is Visiting Professor of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. His many books include (with coeditors Bent Flyvbjerg and Todd Landman)
Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis.
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