Marv Finkelstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4590217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marv Finkelstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marv |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkelstein |
| SIGNATURE | FINKELSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sociology’s Icebergs: Jobs, Workplace Change, and the Applied Imperative
This article explores sociology’s continued vulnerability as a discipline in the context of global, economic, and workplace change. Recent data suggest that a majority of sociology graduates will continue to pursue jobs and careers outside of academia, though they all express misgivings about whether they are prepared to do so. Moreover, there has been a precipitous decline in the number of academic jobs in sociology while the number of non-acade…
Why Teach Applied Sociology? Four Reasons to Consider
Why teach applied sociology? This paper attempts to answer this question by focusing on a variety of advantages and benefits that an applied approach provides to those who teach in traditional classroom academic settings. The paper begins by drawing on a parable about teaching a teenager to drive and suggesting that learning to drive and learning sociology might have a lot more in common than we might imagine. The issue is placed in the context o…
Toward Teaching A Liberating Sociological Practicality: Challenges for Teaching, Learning and Practice
Though C. Wright Mills made a pivotal contribution to the discipline by raising sociologists' awareness of the ideological and bureaucratic content of sociological practicality, he may have placed unyielding limits on “the promise” he profoundly proclaimed in the “sociological imagination.” By defining types of practicality in such rigidly confining terms, as either “liberal” or “illiberal,” those wishing to practice sociology in broader and more…
Toward Teaching A Liberating Sociological Practicality: Challenges for Teaching, Learning and Practice
Though C. Wright Mills made a pivotal contribution to the discipline by raising sociologists' awareness of the ideological and bureaucratic content of sociological practicality, he may have placed unyielding limits on “the promise” he profoundly proclaimed in the “sociological imagination.” By defining types of practicality in such rigidly confining terms, as either “liberal” or “illiberal,” those wishing to practice sociology in broader and more…
Sociology’s Icebergs: Jobs, Workplace Change, and the Applied Imperative
This article explores sociology’s continued vulnerability as a discipline in the context of global, economic, and workplace change. Recent data suggest that a majority of sociology graduates will continue to pursue jobs and careers outside of academia, though they all express misgivings about whether they are prepared to do so. Moreover, there has been a precipitous decline in the number of academic jobs in sociology while the number of non-acade…
Toward Teaching A Liberating Sociological Practicality: Challenges for Teaching, Learning and Practice
Though C. Wright Mills made a pivotal contribution to the discipline by raising sociologists' awareness of the ideological and bureaucratic content of sociological practicality, he may have placed unyielding limits on “the promise” he profoundly proclaimed in the “sociological imagination.” By defining types of practicality in such rigidly confining terms, as either “liberal” or “illiberal,” those wishing to practice sociology in broader and more…
Why Teach Applied Sociology? Four Reasons to Consider
Why teach applied sociology? This paper attempts to answer this question by focusing on a variety of advantages and benefits that an applied approach provides to those who teach in traditional classroom academic settings. The paper begins by drawing on a parable about teaching a teenager to drive and suggesting that learning to drive and learning sociology might have a lot more in common than we might imagine. The issue is placed in the context o…
Sociology’s Icebergs: Jobs, Workplace Change, and the Applied Imperative
This article explores sociology’s continued vulnerability as a discipline in the context of global, economic, and workplace change. Recent data suggest that a majority of sociology graduates will continue to pursue jobs and careers outside of academia, though they all express misgivings about whether they are prepared to do so. Moreover, there has been a precipitous decline in the number of academic jobs in sociology while the number of non-acade…
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works)