4219 - Doing Scholar Activism

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Jane Addams, George Herbert Mead, W. E. B. DuBois. Sociology has a long tradition of scholars who are activists. This tradition continues today as sociologists employ scholarship to challenge inequities, inequalities, human rights violations, and violence. Their activism, in turns, informs sociological scholarship about social and political structures that can act as obstacles and facilitators to collective behavior and social movements.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Session Organizer

• Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve University

Presider

• Elizabeth J. Clifford, Towson University

Individual Presentations

• Everybody Eats: Community Embedded Service-Learning as Public Sociology and Social Justice Work - Sarah N. Gatson, Texas A&M University

• Roots, not the Shoots: Community Accountability and Engagement in Liberatory Scholarship - Monica M. White, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Social Research + Social Justice = Social Obligation for Social Activism - Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland