Community and the Practice of Sociology

Exploring the Benefits of Community-based Research in a Sociology of Sexualities Course

“…In this article, we demonstrate the usefulness of CBR both for community partners and for students across a wide range of majors. As other scholars have noted (Marullo and Strand 2004;Pestello et al 1996), CBR can be particularly valuable for faculty in combining the three main requisites of higher education-service, scholarship, and teaching. CBR fits especially well within sociology courses because students can readily explore a wide range of topics and can use methodologies to analyze and work to resolve local social maladies.…”

A Year of Reflecting on Teaching: What We Know about the Classroom and What We Don't Know about the Hallways

“…This theme continues throughout published articles in Teaching Sociology. The community becomes many things-including taking students to prisons, attending AA meetings, taking field trips to museums, attending church services of various types, going to malls, schools, and becoming involved in communitybased research centers (Greenberg 1989;King 1992;Puffer 1994;Cohen 1995;Boyle 1995;Calderon and Farrell 1996;Pestello et al, 1996;Corwin 1996;Scarce 1997;May and Koulish 1998;Wright 2000).…”

Experiential Learning in Sociology: Service Learning and Other Community-Based Learning Initiatives

“…183 periential learning, appeal to social scientists and sociologists in particular (Corwin 1996;Lena 1995; Parker-Gwin and Mabry 1998). First, sociologists have traditionally adhered to an "underdog ideology" rooted in the social problems legacy of the Chicago School and the activism it promoted (Pestello et al 1996). Second, given the abstract nature of sociological theories and concepts, faculty members have turned to the "real world" in order to ground their discipline in a framework to which students can relate.…”