Civic Engagement and Public Sociology

Two “Movements” in Search of a Mission

Bibliographic Data

ID7104760
AuthorsMavis Morton (0000-0003-3031-2331, University of Guelph, corresponding author), Corey Dolgon (Stonehill College), Timothy M Maher (University of Indianapolis), James R Pennell (0009-0002-2169-3187, University of Indianapolis)
Year2012
Volume6
Issue1
Pages5-30
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Applied Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1936-7244 • E-ISSN: 1937-0245
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1936724411436170
OpenAlexW1774007885
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited43

While the tools of civically engaged higher education (service-learning, community-based research, etc.) existed in sociology classes well before the onset of what some call the “civic engagement movement,” they have quickly shifted from margin to center as key building blocks for sociology’s own trend toward public sociology. While we examine the precarious rise of both civic engagement and public sociology, we argue that lacking strong social movements as shaping forces, the social justice potential for both civic engagement and public sociology must come from practitioners’ links to community-based politics and social movement organizing. Such connections still ground teaching and scholarship in the real politics of everyday life: people, institutions, and communities

Civic engagement · Engaged scholarship · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public engagement · Public relations · Public sociology · Scholarship · Service-learning · Social engagement · Social justice · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Service-Learning and Community Engagement

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