The Sociological Perspective
Sociology: Promise and Potential Through Praxis
Cheryl Joseph
Human Rights and the Sociological Imagination: How Sociologists Can Help Make the World a Better Place
Mayra Gómez
Stand Up and Speak Out
Judith Wittner
Getting Behind the Headlines and Going Where the Action Is: My Career as A Sociologist in Non-Academic Settings
Georgette F. Bennett
Theory
Critical Mixed-Race Studies: The Intersections of Identity and Social Justice
Andrew Jolivette
Doing Sociology: Creating Equal Employment Opportunities
Menah Pratt-Clarke
Using Sociology for College Success
Laura Nichols
Research Methods
The Michigan Alcohol and Other Drugs School Survey
Thomas L. Van Valey
Using Sociological Skills for Movements to Confront Power: The Genesis of the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP)
Bruce Nissen
Positive Deviance Research as a Way to Help People
Samuel R. Friedman
Culture
Academic as Social Entrepreneur: Creating Organizations for Social Change
Juliet Schor
Excerpt From ‘The Diary of a Mad Social Scientist
Corey Dolgon
Youth Culture, Identity, and Resistance: Participatory Action Research in a Puerto Rican Barrio
Nilda Flores-González and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
Socialization
Socialization, Stereotypes, and Homelessness
Michele Wakin
Reengaging Activism in the Socialization of Undergraduate Students
Shelley White
Dangerous Behaviors? Police Encounters With Juvenile Gang Offenders
Susan Guarino-Ghezzi
Deviant Behavior
Reducing Hate and Prejudice on Campus: A Sociologist’s Contributions”
Jack Levin
Using Evidence-Based Research to Inform Public Policy: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
David S. Kirk
The Politics of Protest Policing
Alex S. Vitale
From Damaged Goods to Empowered Patients
Adina Nack
Social Movements
Never Again Must Mean Never
Ellen J. Kennedy
Change the World—Start at School
Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
A Campus Gun-Free Zone Movement
Rob Benford
Social Movements and Activist Sociology
Charles Derber
Stratification and Social Class
Housing and Homelessness in Maine: A Case of Public Sociology in Practice
Joe Bandy
Relocating the Homeless—or Not!
James D. Wright
Sociology Is Action: Using Sociology for Children’s Rights
Jonathan White
Race and Ethics Relations
Bridging the Campus and the Community: Blogging About the Asian American Experience
C. N. Le
The Responsibilities of Relationships: Using Sociology to Build Meaningful Alliances
Barbara Gurr
Putting Sociology to Work in Winnersville, USA
Mark Patrick George
Methods of Truth and Reconciliation
David Cunningham
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Sex in Some Cities: Explorations of AIDS/HIV Education and Hooking Up
Rebecca Plante
A Public Sociology of Gender and Masculinity
Michael Kimmel
The Southern West Virginia Photovoice Project: Community Action Through Sociological Research
Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Getting the Message Out
Susan Stall
Globalization and Immigration
Interracial Conflict and Attempts at Reconciliation in Auburn, Maine
Joe Bandy, with Elspeth Benard (Dennison)
How Culture Matters in Poverty Alleviation Efforts: Microcredit and Confucian Ideas in Rural China
Becky Hsu
Localizing International Human Rights: Engaging with the World Social Forum Process
Jackie Smith
Informed Debate in a Political Minefield
Irene Bloemraad
Community-Based Research and Immigrant Rights
Leah Schmalzbauer
Environmental Justice
Reducing Pesticide Exposure Risks: An Environmental Sociologist’s Role
(Hanna-) Andrea Rother
Using a Sociological Tool Kit to Make Energy Efficiency Happen
Lou Jacobson
Activist Scholarship for Environmental Justice
David Naguib Pellow
The Sociology of Environmental Justice: Merging Research and Action
Daniel Faber
Social Institutions (Family, Economy)
Sociological Advocacy for Children
Yvonne Vissing
From Hollowing Out the Middle to Reimagining Small Towns
Patrick J. Carr
Why Don’t We Do Something About It?’ Response to Job Loss in Rural Communities
Leslie Hossfeld
Social Institutions, Continued (Education, Government, Religion)
A Sociologist as a Social Seismographer: Understanding the Earthquake in Class Inequality in U.S. Higher Education
Sigal Alon
Promoting Community Environmental Sustainability Using a Project-Based Approach
Dadit Hidayat, Randy Stoecker, and Heather Gates
Using Sociology to Counter Stereotypes: The Case of American Muslims
John O’Brien and Besheer Mohamed
Out of the Tower and Into the Capitol: How Sociology Students Helped Spark the Wisconsin Uprising 277
Charity A. Schmidt
Democracy Matters: Giving Students a Political Voice
Joan D. Mandle
