Jane Addams While looking for the notable public sociologists online, I came across an article which had a mention of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, feminist, sociologist, and an author. She published many writings on women’s suffrage, feminism, and world peace. What caught my attention is the fact that she co-founded American Civil… Read More Week 3- Prominent Public Sociologists
The assigned readings for this week share a common theme of understanding the way public sociologist communicate with the public or non-academic audiences. Public sociology as a discipline focuses on extending the realm of academic sociology in order to engage with the general public or non-academic audiences. A successful public sociologist is the one who… Read More Week 3- Professionalization of Sociology
Globally, each and every person is contributing to enormous big data to some extent when they leave their digital traces behind by using their digital devices, search engines, social media platforms, and interacting using their smartphones (Boyd & Crawford, 2012). In her Ted Talk, Susan Etlinger (2014) explains that this data is available in various… Read More SOCY691: Opportunities and Ethical Challenges of Big Data in Sociology
In their work “The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology”, authors Mike Savage and Roger Burrows explain the rapidly increasing distance between new and faster ways of collecting data and the traditional methods used for collecting data by the sociologists. They state that knowing capitalism is “where circuits of information proliferate and are embedded in numerous… Read More SOCY691: Blog 1- Knowing Capitalism