R Stoecker
Biographic Data
| ID | 145682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Stoecker |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoecker |
| SIGNATURE | STOECKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toledo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6716-8532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Using Participatory Action Research as a Liberatory Tool in Nonprofit Organizations
Various forms of participatory action research (PAR) have in the past decades gained prominence in practice-oriented scholarship in pursuit of human liberatory causes. But this strand of research remains much less visible in the mainstream publications of nonprofit research. This article discusses PAR in relation to its concept, philosophy, methods, processes, validity and ethics. Then, it assesses its application in nonprofit settings, using exa…
From mixed methods to strategic research design
This paper contrasts mixed methods design with strategic research design. Mixed methods research both advocates for itself as always better than singular research methods, while also seemingly allowing a wide variety of researchers to count their work under the very large umbrella of mixed methods. We argue for strategic research design as a set of principles that can help researchers decide whether to use mixed methods, choose the best methods t…
Is Hip-Hop Violent? Analyzing the Relationship Between Live Music Performances and Violence
This project tested the dominant cultural belief that Hip-Hop music is a more violent form of music. Our research compared music genres and indicators of violence. Using data from the Madison Police Department, we coded and analyzed 4,624 police calls made from bars, clubs, and venues licensed to host live musical performances in Madison from 2008 to 2016. We then determined whether there was a live music performance during the time of a police c…
Community-based organizations and environmentalism
Old Crop, New Society
Can Community-Based Research Guide Service Learning
Research on service learning is beginning to show that the academy may be using communities to serve students, rather than engaging students in effectively serving communities. This article begins by documenting the extent of the potential problem and its underlying dimensions. It then goes on to develop an alternative model to guide service learning, building on community development models and community-based research (CBR) practices. Using thi…
Community Organizing and Social Change
It was 2008, early in the presidential campaign season. Everyone was talking about whether a woman or an African American would be the Democratic party nominee for president. And then they began talking about community organizing. In the early days of the Democratic primary we learned that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had connections to it. Clinton had written her undergraduate thesis on the famous community organizer Saul Alinsky. Obama…
Are we talking the walk of community-based research
When we present ourselves as doing research that is participatory and action oriented, are we meeting either of those goals? An analysis of 232 concept applications sent to the Sociological Initiatives Foundation community-based research funding pool shows that most proposed research emphasized neither participation nor action. Grassroots community members, or organizations controlled by them, were rarely involved at the crucial decision stages o…
Challenging institutional barriers to community-based research
Those of us attempting to develop truly equal partnerships with communities and community organizations, using the method of community-based research, encounter many barriers. These barriers revolve around who sets the schedule, who determines the labor pool, who controls the product, and who gets the funding. In this article, a case study shows how those barriers exert themselves, and evaluates the success of strategies to challenge those barrie…
Visions of development
Journal Article Visions of development: faith-based initiatives Get access Edited by Wendy R. Tyndale, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate. 2006. 978-0-7546-5623-4. £45.00 Randy Stoecker Randy Stoecker Associate Professor Center for Community and Economic Development, 610 Langdon Street, 3rd Floor, Madison, WI 53703 And Department of Rural Sociology, 350 Agricultural Hall, 1450 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706 E-mail: [email protected] Sear…
The Research Practices and Needs of Non-Profit Organizations in an Urban Center
How do nonprofit organizations use data and research? What challenges do they face in conducting research and managing data? In spring of 2004, 80 nonprofit organizations in Toledo, Ohio returned a survey on their research and data needs and practices. The survey found that nonprofits collect data on a wide variety of topics, but do not use much of the data that they collect, and do not collect much data that could be useful for other groups, par…
Neighborhood Data Systems
If neighborhood residents are to influence urban development effectively at the most local level of the neighborhood, they need information. One information foundation to ensure effective participation is a user-friendly database whereby people can quickly access information on their own neighborhood. An increasing number of cities are developing neighborhood data systems, which collect and provide data at the neighborhood level for foundations t…
Smart Mobs
Organizing Access to Capital
Understanding the Development-Organizing Dialectic
Can community organizing and community development be practiced in combination through community development corporations (CDCs)? While community organizing and community development have complementary goals, they are based on potentially contradictory worldviews and occupy potentially contradictory social structural locations. Whether the two strategies can be combined in a single organization without causing severe disruption is questionable. A…
Reply [From Randy Stoecker]
Civic Innovation in America
Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development
States, Cultures, and Community Organizing
How do differences between the United States and Canadian political systems affect community organizing? We compare case studies of two neighborhoods: the Drouillard Road neighborhood in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; and the Birmingham neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Toledo and Windsor are similar in important ways, with both heavily dependent on Detroit-based automotive industry, and relatively similar in ethnic and class makeup. The ne…
Making Connections
Are Academics Irrelevant
Interest in participatory research has exploded over the past decade. Academics seem to follow three approaches in participatory research: the initiator, the consultant, and the collaborator. After discussing the approaches, this article argues that doing the research is not a goal in itself but only a means. Participatory research is actually part of a larger community change project that is dependent on four roles: "animator," community organiz…
Streets of Hope
Journal Article Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. By Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar. Boston, Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside. By Randy Stoecker. Philadelphia and Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities. By Gordana Rabrenovic. Philadelphia Get access Alexander von Hoffman Alexander von Hoffman Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Searc…
Community Organizing or Organizing Community
This article looks at two strains of urban community organizing, distinguished by philosophy and often by gender, and influenced by the historical division of American society into public and private spheres. The authors compare the well-known Alinsky model, which focuses on communities organizing for power, and what they call the women-centered model, which focuses on organizing relationships to build community. These models are rooted in somewh…
Should We … Could We … Change the Cdc Model?, a Rejoinder
(1997). Should We ... Could We ... Change the Cdc Model?, a Rejoinder. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 35-44
The Cdc Model of Urban Redevelopment
This paper questions the viability of an urban redevelopment model that relies on small community development corporations (CDCs) and proposes an alternative. Because most CDCs are severely undercapitalized, they can not keep up with accelerating decay. Their existence, and the emphasis placed on their supposed successes, allow elites to blame poor neighborhood CDCs rather than external conditions for redevelopment failure. The model also emphasi…
The Cdc Model of Urban Redevelopment
This paper questions the viability of an urban redevelopment model that relies on small community development corporations (CDCs) and proposes an alternative. Because most CDCs are severely undercapitalized, they can not keep up with accelerating decay. Their existence, and the emphasis placed on their supposed successes, allow elites to blame poor neighborhood CDCs rather than external conditions for redevelopment failure. The model also emphasi…
Evaluating and Rethinking the Case Study
This paper will first explore briefly how the case study fell out of favour as a legitimate research tool, and how case study researchers responded to the critique that case study research lacked internal and external validity. Some case study advocates attempted to meet this critique by using the case to compare different theoretical predictions, dividing the case into subcases, or treating the case as an experiment. A more effective response di…
Are we talking the walk of community-based research
When we present ourselves as doing research that is participatory and action oriented, are we meeting either of those goals? An analysis of 232 concept applications sent to the Sociological Initiatives Foundation community-based research funding pool shows that most proposed research emphasized neither participation nor action. Grassroots community members, or organizations controlled by them, were rarely involved at the crucial decision stages o…
Are Academics Irrelevant
Interest in participatory research has exploded over the past decade. Academics seem to follow three approaches in participatory research: the initiator, the consultant, and the collaborator. After discussing the approaches, this article argues that doing the research is not a goal in itself but only a means. Participatory research is actually part of a larger community change project that is dependent on four roles: "animator," community organiz…
Community Organizing or Organizing Community
This article looks at two strains of urban community organizing, distinguished by philosophy and often by gender, and influenced by the historical division of American society into public and private spheres. The authors compare the well-known Alinsky model, which focuses on communities organizing for power, and what they call the women-centered model, which focuses on organizing relationships to build community. These models are rooted in somewh…
Challenging institutional barriers to community-based research
Those of us attempting to develop truly equal partnerships with communities and community organizations, using the method of community-based research, encounter many barriers. These barriers revolve around who sets the schedule, who determines the labor pool, who controls the product, and who gets the funding. In this article, a case study shows how those barriers exert themselves, and evaluates the success of strategies to challenge those barrie…
Understanding the Development-Organizing Dialectic
Can community organizing and community development be practiced in combination through community development corporations (CDCs)? While community organizing and community development have complementary goals, they are based on potentially contradictory worldviews and occupy potentially contradictory social structural locations. Whether the two strategies can be combined in a single organization without causing severe disruption is questionable. A…
Community, Movement, Organization
This article integrates resource mobilization and collective identity perspectives to show how understanding the degree of convergence of identities between a movement organization, its broader social movement, and the community in which it is located aids our analysis of social movement dynamics. The first part develops a model of identity convergence. The second part analyzes how identity convergence and divergence interacted with the movement …
Community Organizing and Community-Based Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside and East Toledo
This paper addresses the question of the extent to which community organizing and community-based redevelopment are complementary or contradictory. Two neighborhoods are compared which transformed from community organizing movements to community- based redevelopment movements. In Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood with radical counter-culture roots, militant community organizing to stop a high-rise redevelopment plan gave way to community- based red…
Integrating Writing and the Teaching Assistant to Enhance Critical Pedagogy
This paper begins by developing a model of critical pedagogy which includes components of both critical thinking and social critique and discusses how to operationalize that model by using writing and a teaching assistant. The second part of the paper describes an experimental course based on this model, taught twice in a two-year period at a mediumsized state university. The paper concludes with an evaluation of this experiment for improving stu…
Can Community-Based Research Guide Service Learning
Research on service learning is beginning to show that the academy may be using communities to serve students, rather than engaging students in effectively serving communities. This article begins by documenting the extent of the potential problem and its underlying dimensions. It then goes on to develop an alternative model to guide service learning, building on community development models and community-based research (CBR) practices. Using thi…
Organizing Access to Capital
States, Cultures, and Community Organizing
How do differences between the United States and Canadian political systems affect community organizing? We compare case studies of two neighborhoods: the Drouillard Road neighborhood in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; and the Birmingham neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Toledo and Windsor are similar in important ways, with both heavily dependent on Detroit-based automotive industry, and relatively similar in ethnic and class makeup. The ne…
Guest editor’s introduction
Readings in Humanist Sociology
Using Participatory Action Research as a Liberatory Tool in Nonprofit Organizations
Various forms of participatory action research (PAR) have in the past decades gained prominence in practice-oriented scholarship in pursuit of human liberatory causes. But this strand of research remains much less visible in the mainstream publications of nonprofit research. This article discusses PAR in relation to its concept, philosophy, methods, processes, validity and ethics. Then, it assesses its application in nonprofit settings, using exa…
Community-based organizations and environmentalism
Making Connections
Homelessness
Service providers who work with the homeless are frequently characterized as victim blamers. Eighteen service providers who work with homeless people were interviewed. The victim-blaming typification oversimplifies service providers' views on homelessness and of the individuals their programs serve. Service providers have a wholistic analysis of homelessness which encompasses both individual and systemic components
Sociology out to lunch
Readings in Humanist Sociology
Critical Theory and Feminist Praxis
Theory for Whom? 1
Evaluating and Rethinking the Case Study
This paper will first explore briefly how the case study fell out of favour as a legitimate research tool, and how case study researchers responded to the critique that case study research lacked internal and external validity. Some case study advocates attempted to meet this critique by using the case to compare different theoretical predictions, dividing the case into subcases, or treating the case as an experiment. A more effective response di…
Protecting One's Turf
Local State Reform and Class Struggle
This paper discusses how Toledo city government changed from a mayor-ward council system, to a city manager with a proportional representation council system, to an at-large council-manager system. We draw from research on the structural location of the local state in the overall state system and its role in contradiction management, capitalist-labor struggle for control of the local state, and the early 20th century municipal reform movement in …
Homelessness
Service providers who work with the homeless are frequently characterized as victim blamers. Eighteen service providers who work with homeless people were interviewed. The victim-blaming typification oversimplifies service providers' views on homelessness and of the individuals their programs serve. Service providers have a wholistic analysis of homelessness which encompasses both individual and systemic components
Integrating Writing and the Teaching Assistant to Enhance Critical Pedagogy
This paper begins by developing a model of critical pedagogy which includes components of both critical thinking and social critique and discusses how to operationalize that model by using writing and a teaching assistant. The second part of the paper describes an experimental course based on this model, taught twice in a two-year period at a mediumsized state university. The paper concludes with an evaluation of this experiment for improving stu…
Guest editor’s introduction
Power/Resistance
Defending Community
Community Organizing and Community-Based Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside and East Toledo
This paper addresses the question of the extent to which community organizing and community-based redevelopment are complementary or contradictory. Two neighborhoods are compared which transformed from community organizing movements to community- based redevelopment movements. In Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood with radical counter-culture roots, militant community organizing to stop a high-rise redevelopment plan gave way to community- based red…
Community, Movement, Organization
This article integrates resource mobilization and collective identity perspectives to show how understanding the degree of convergence of identities between a movement organization, its broader social movement, and the community in which it is located aids our analysis of social movement dynamics. The first part develops a model of identity convergence. The second part analyzes how identity convergence and divergence interacted with the movement …
Should We … Could We … Change the Cdc Model?, a Rejoinder
(1997). Should We ... Could We ... Change the Cdc Model?, a Rejoinder. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 35-44
The Cdc Model of Urban Redevelopment
This paper questions the viability of an urban redevelopment model that relies on small community development corporations (CDCs) and proposes an alternative. Because most CDCs are severely undercapitalized, they can not keep up with accelerating decay. Their existence, and the emphasis placed on their supposed successes, allow elites to blame poor neighborhood CDCs rather than external conditions for redevelopment failure. The model also emphasi…
Holding Ground
Streets of Hope
Journal Article Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. By Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar. Boston, Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside. By Randy Stoecker. Philadelphia and Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities. By Gordana Rabrenovic. Philadelphia Get access Alexander von Hoffman Alexander von Hoffman Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Searc…
Community Organizing or Organizing Community
This article looks at two strains of urban community organizing, distinguished by philosophy and often by gender, and influenced by the historical division of American society into public and private spheres. The authors compare the well-known Alinsky model, which focuses on communities organizing for power, and what they call the women-centered model, which focuses on organizing relationships to build community. These models are rooted in somewh…
Making Connections
Are Academics Irrelevant
Interest in participatory research has exploded over the past decade. Academics seem to follow three approaches in participatory research: the initiator, the consultant, and the collaborator. After discussing the approaches, this article argues that doing the research is not a goal in itself but only a means. Participatory research is actually part of a larger community change project that is dependent on four roles: "animator," community organiz…
States, Cultures, and Community Organizing
How do differences between the United States and Canadian political systems affect community organizing? We compare case studies of two neighborhoods: the Drouillard Road neighborhood in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; and the Birmingham neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Toledo and Windsor are similar in important ways, with both heavily dependent on Detroit-based automotive industry, and relatively similar in ethnic and class makeup. The ne…
Reply [From Randy Stoecker]
Civic Innovation in America
Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development
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