Integrating Sociological Practice into Traditional Sociology Courses

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Laurence A. Basirico
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Practice ◽  
Traditional Sociology

2020 Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Membership Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 193672442110537
Author(s):  
Joel L. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Applied Sociology ◽  
Sociological Practice ◽  
Current Survey ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Professional Home

The Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS) was formed in 2005 by the merger of the Society for Applied Sociology and the Sociological Practice Association giving name recognition to both applied and clinical sociology, and a professional home for all sociological practitioners. In an effort to provide greater benefit and value to members, and to better meet the needs of its members, the AACS conducted a membership survey. On October 9, 2020, a membership survey was sent to AACS members to gather data. While the current survey results could have benefited from a greater response rate, the data gathered provides some degree of insight to members’ characteristics and attitudes toward the AACS. It is recommended that the AACS consider conducting future membership studies periodically to determine how to better meet member needs, and to estimate the value of AACS to its members.

Reflexivity and Sociological Practice

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim May
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Sociological Practice ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social

Attention to reflexivity is often assumed to be the means through which the assumptions and values of social scientists may be uncovered. Researchers are thus called upon to position themselves explicitly in terms of their place within the research process in order that their interpretations may be assessed according to situated aspects of their social selves. Taking a reconstructive social science as one whose aim is to examine our pre-theoretical knowledge in the spirit of producing more adequate accounts of the social world, this article seeks to make sense of these ideas in relation to their consequences for producing an engaged practice and body of knowledge.

On the Everyday Life of a Significant Sociologist

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-211
Author(s):  
John Germov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Sociological Practice ◽  
The Everyday

This article provides a brief overview of Stephen Crook’s scholarly and professional work as a prelude to the articles by Malcolm Waters and Jan Pakulski and Bruce Tranter. His scholarly work particularly focused on the theorization of social differentiation and social order in studies of everyday life. Through the critical appraisal of postmodernist approaches, he developed his own post-foundational radicalist approach that transcended the determinism of unitary meta-narratives, but also avoided relativistic and atheoretical descriptions of the plurality of ‘the everyday’. Yet the everyday relevance of sociological practice was a defining feature of Steve’sweltanschauung, epitomized in his professional service and role as a public intellectual.

Conceptualising the ‘Visual Essay’ as a Way of Generating and Imparting Sociological Insight: Issues, Formats and Realisations

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Pauwels
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Sociological Practice ◽  
Combined Images ◽  
Scholarly Discourse

This article discusses and exemplifies a more visual and expressive way of constructing and presenting sociological insight. It seeks to articulate the specific demands, traits and potentials of the ‘visual essay’ as a societal and sociological practice and format. In particular it provides some observations, propositions and arguments that may further help to clarify what the visual sociological essay, as an unorthodox scholarly product, might entail and what place it should acquire in broader scholarly discourse. This theoretical discussion is accompanied by excerpts of concrete visual essays of both scholarly and non-scholarly origin. These examples help to show some of the basic strengths of this format which attempts to play out the synergy of the distinct forms of expression that are combined: images, words, layout and design, adding up to a scientifically informed statement.

scholarly journals Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research: Expanding Undergraduate Teaching and Learning through Public Sociology

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Miriam Greenberg ◽  
Rebecca A. London ◽  
Steven C. McKay
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Sociological Practice ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Vantage Points

Drawing on a multiyear local research project on the affordable housing crisis, this article outlines a pedagogical approach we call Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research, or CISER. The CISER model brings together three key groups of actors—undergraduate students, university researchers, and community organizations—drawing on and extending the powers of cooperative “dyads” between them. This model aims to improve pedagogical and sociological practice by constituting undergraduate students as both knowledge producers and an active public while at the same time creating meaningful partnerships between university researchers and community-based organizations. Based on assessments of the program from the vantage points of all three groups, our findings indicate that CISER is a powerful pedagogical tool and mode of community-engaged scholarship and that it offers both challenges and rewards to the involved students, faculty, and community organizations.

A Sociological Critique and Reformulation of Brands

2019 ◽  
pp. 126-149
Author(s):  
Thomas C. O’Guinn ◽  
Albert M. Muñiz ◽  
Erika Paulson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Culture Theory ◽  
Research Traditions ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Consumer Culture Theory ◽  
Traditional Sociology

In just under 150 years, societies have changed from having very few brands to having almost everything branded or brandable. How, and why don’t we know more about it? This chapter provides a much-deserved critique of extant brand thought and highlights the considerable need for a sociological conception of brands. Analyzing brands as vessels of popular meaning used for promoting things, places, people, and ideas, the chapter also questions how existing research traditions restrict and retard the development of a meaningful social science of brands. Too much attention to social psychology and to consumer culture theory, and too little to traditional sociology, has meant that the general social and political processes that generate, animate, and transform brands have been sacrificed to the priorities of these dominant research traditions in marketing departments. We offer this critique in order to identify opportunities for generating empirical research tying together society, politics, and markets.

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