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Public
Sociology

Public
Sociology

Research, Action, and Change

Philip Nyden
Loyola University Chicago

Leslie Hossfeld
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Gwendolyn Nyden
Oakton Community College

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nyden, Philip W.

Public sociology: research, action, and change / Philip Nyden, Leslie Hossfeld, Gwen Nyden.

p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4129-8263-4 (pbk.)

1. SociologyMethodology. 2. Sociology
Research. 3. Applied sociology. 4. Social change.
I. Hossfeld, Leslie H., 1961- II. Nyden, Gwendolyn
E. III. Title.

HM511.N93 2012 301.01dc22 2010050142

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

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Contents

Foreword
Michael Burawoy

Foreword
Steven Redfield

Foreword
Dan E. Moore

Sidebar: Expert Testimony
Gregory Squires

Sidebar: Setting a Graduate Education Path for Public Sociology
Julie Hilvers

Sidebar: Developing Student Commitment to Public Sociology
Kim Lancaster

Sidebar: Working With the Academy: A Community Perspective
Mac Legerton

Sidebar: Enjoying Success Outside the Academy
Roberta Spalter-Roth

Sidebar: Public Sociologist as Teacher First
Susan Ambler

Sidebar: Learning Is a Two-Way Street
Leslie Hossfeld

1.1 Educating About Homelessness: A UniversityCity Government Research Partnership
Laura Nichols, Fernando Czares, and Angelica M. Rodriguez

1.2 The Differential Impact of Gentrification on Communities of Color in Chicago
Philip Nyden, Julie Davis, and Emily Edlynn

1.3 Research in Action: The Case of InnerCity Entrepreneurs
Daniel Monti

1.4 Art and Equitable Community Development
Diane Grams

2.1 Public Sociology for Environmental Health and Environmental Justice
Alissa Cordner, Alison Cohen, and Phil Brown

2.2 Learning From Disaster: Documenting the Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Displaced College Students From New Orleans
Anthony E. Ladd and Duane A. Gill

2.3 Working for Global Environmental Justice: Channeling Privilege, Producing New Knowledge
David N. Pellow

3.1 Neighborhood, Region, and Place: The Chicago Experience
Garth Taylor

3.2 The Sacramento State Annual Survey of the Region
Amy Liu

3.3 Reducing Hunger in Oregon
Michael Leachman

3.4 Povertyeast.org: Providing Information to Help Communities Address Critical Needs
Leslie Hossfeld

3.5 Sociology in Public Service
Paul Luebke

4.1 Bringing Feminist Sociology to Smart-Girl: Building a University-Nonprofit Partnership
Abby L. Ferber

4.2 Feminist Research in Action: An Intersectional Approach to Girlcentric Programming
Melissa Swauger

4.3 Youth Participation in Community Research for Racial Justice
Barry Checkoway and Katie Richards-Schuster

4.4 Building Resources to Create and Maintain Stable Diverse Communities
Madeline Troche-Rodrguez

5.1 The Media, ACORN, and Presidential Politics
Peter Dreier and Christopher R. Martin

5.2 Pressuring Alcohol Companies to Reform Marketing Practices
David H. Jernigan

5.3 The Reel Girls Project: Self, Image, Adolescence, and Filmmaking
Shannon Silva, Susan Bullers, Mariana Johnson,
Donna King, and Jean-Anne Sutherland

5.4 The Internet as a Leveler Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Communities
Keith N. Hampton

6.1 Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Vandana Kohli

6.2 Doing Gods Work and Doing Good Work(s): Unique Challenges to Evaluation Research in Ministry Settings
Anne E. Figert

6.3 Feast on the Southeast: Creating a Sustainable Local Food System in Southeastern North Carolina
Leslie Hossfeld and Mac Legerton

Sidebar: Doing Public Sociology
Raven Bruno

6.4 Challenging Discrimination Against Women, Minorities, and the Sick in Health Insurance
Donald W. Light

6.5 Tobacco Use Prevention in Montanas Frontier Communities: Developing New Rural Strategies
Patricia G. Nichols

7.1 Forty Years of Codifying and Mapping Homicides in Chicago: Impacts on Policing, Research, and Community Well-Being
Carolyn Rebecca Block and Richard Block

7.2 Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice in Wisconsin: Analysis, Graphs, and Engagement
Pamela Oliver

7.3 The Role of Relationship Building in Research Partnerships
Christine George

Sidebar: The Process of Partnering Is as Essential as the Final Product
Leslie Landis

7.4 Hate Crime Motivation: The Practical Consequences of an Offender Typology
Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt

8.1 Cultivating Public Sociology From the Classroom: The Case of a Student-Organized Tenants Union
Peter L. Callero

Sidebar: The Power of Community Organizing
Ellen Keithley

8.2 The Unity of Theory and Practice: The U.S. Social Forum and Movement Building for Social Transformation
Walda Katz-Fishman, Rose M. Brewer, and Jerome Scott

8.3 When the Community Leads
Catherine Willis, Crystel Anders, and Randy Stoecker

8.4 The Third Place Project
Ray Oldenburg

Foreword

C . Wright Mills famously defined the sociological imagination as linking personal troubles to public issues. He thought it was sufficient to trace personal misfortune to social forces and people would throng the political arena. Thus, knowing that unemployment was not the result of bad luck or individual sloth but of the operation of the labor market, workers would demand state protection against unemployment. Knowing that domestic violence was conditioned by male power, women would demand laws and services that would empower women.

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