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| Foreword by Michael Burawoy |
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| Foreword by Steven Redfield |
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| Foreword by Dan E. Moore |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Chapter 1. Public Scholarship, the Sociological Imagination, and Engaged Scholarship |
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| Chapter 2. Crossing Boundaries in 21st-Century Research |
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| Chapter 3. Starting Up and Sustaining Public Sociology Projects |
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| Chapter 4. Career Guide for Public Sociologists |
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| Case Studies 1. Equitable Community Development |
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| 1.1 Educating About Homelessness: A University-City Government Research Partnership |
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| 1.2 Differential Impact of Gentrification and Displacement on Communities of Color |
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| 1.3 Research in Action: Inner City Entrepreneurs |
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| 1.4 Art and Equitable Community Development |
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| Case Studies 2: Environmental Issues |
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| 2.1 Public Sociology for Environmental Health and Environmental Justice |
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| 2.2 Learning From Disaster: Documenting the Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Displaced College Students From New Orleans |
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| 2.3 Working for Global Environmental Justice: Channeling Privilege, Producing New Knowledge |
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| Case Studies 3: Regional Research and Data Collection to Enhance Public Knowledge |
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| 3.1 Neighborhood, Region, and Place: The Chicago Experience |
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| 3.2 The Sacramento State Annual Survey of the Region |
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| 3.3 Reducing Hunger in Oregon |
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| 3.4 PovertyEast.org: Poverty Information to Health Communities Address Critical Needs |
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| 3.5 Sociology in Public Service |
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| Case Studies 4: Inequalities of Race, Class and Gender |
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| 4.1 Bringing a Feminist Sociology to Smart-Girl: Building a University-Nonprofit Partnership |
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| 4.2 Feminist Research in Action: An Intersectional Approach to Girlcentric Programming |
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| 4.3 Youth Participation in Community Research for Racial Justice |
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| 4.4 Building Resources to Create and Maintain Stable Diverse Communities |
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| Case Studies 5: The Media |
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| 5.1 The Media, ACORN, and Presidential Politics |
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| 5.2 Pressuring Alcohol Companies to Reform Marketing Practices |
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| 5.3 The Reel Girls Project: Self, Image, Adolescence, and Filmmaking |
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| 5.4 The Internet as a Leveler Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Communities |
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| Case Studies 6: Health |
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| 6.1 Teen Pregnancy Prevention |
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| 6.2 Doing God's Work and Doing Good Work(s): Unique Challenges to Evaluation Research in Ministry Settings |
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| 6.3 Feast on the Southeast: Creating a Sustainable Local Food System in Southeastern North Carolina |
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| 6.4 Challenging Discrimination Against Women, Minorities, and the Sick in Health Insurance |
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| 6.5 Tobacco Use Prevention in Montana's Frontier Communities: Developing New Rural Strategies |
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| Case Studies 7: Crime, Reducing Violence and Promoting Justice |
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| 7.1 Forty Years of Codifying and Mapping Homicides in Chicago: Impacts on Policing, Research, and Community Well-Being |
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| 7.2 Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice in Wisconsin: Analysis, Graphs, and Engagement |
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| 7.3 The Role of Relationship Building in Research Partnerships |
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| 7.4 Hate Crime Motivation: The Practical Consequences of an Offender Typology |
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| Case Studies 8: Community Organizing |
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| 8.1 Cultivating Public Sociology From the Classroom: The Case of a Student-Organized Tenants Union |
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| 8.2 The Unity of Theory and Practice: The U.S. Social Forum and Movement Building for Social Transformation |
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| 8.3 When the Community Leads |
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| 8.4 The "Third Place" Project |
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| Conclusion: The Case for the New, Engaged, 21st-Century Scholarship |
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| About the Editors |
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| About the Contributors |
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| Index |
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