Engaging the Sociological Imagination
My Journey into Design Research and Public Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2280366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Mehan (University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-91 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00006.x |
| OpenAlex | W2010887052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 27 |
I chronicle the changes in my research, especially those that have moved me closer to C. Wright Mills's call for a "sociological imagination" and Dell Hymes's reinvented anthropology. As I spend more time attempting to create and describe equitable educational environments and less time documenting educational inequality, I have adopted a version of "design research." I describe the possibilities and limitations of trying to conduct research while participating in the phenomenon under investigation. [sociological imagination, critical ethnography, public sociology, design research
Art history · Educational research · Epistemology · Ethnography · Phenomenon · Public sociology · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociological research · Sociological theory · Sociology · Wright · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Sociology of Designs
Can You Design for Agency
The Instructional Designer’s Role in Forming University-Community Partnerships in Digital Literacy
Critical social literacy
Research-practice partnerships “On the Ground”
Dreaming in Context
Reducing Inequities by Linking Basic Research and Political Action
Enduring Inequities, Imagined Futures-Circulating Policy Discourses and Dilemmas in the Anthropology of Education
The Cultural Politics of Mixed-Income Schools and Housing
Cultivating Research Pedagogies with Adolescents
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Constructing School Success
Handicapping the Handicapped
Structuring School Structure
Method and Measurement in Sociology
Cultural Production of the Educated Person
Reinventing anthropology.
For Public Sociology
For Public Sociology
The Sociological Imagination
The Reality of Ethnomethodology
Constructing School Success
The Reality of Ethnomethodology
The Place of Theory in Educational Research
Features
Reconstructing Equality on New Political Ground
Public Sociologies
The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography
On the evolution of qualitative approaches in educational research
Disciplining the Discipline
Putting Anthropology to Work
Social Stratification and Mobility
Whole-School Detracking
The Power of Their Ideas
The morality of ethnomethodology
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |