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- Title
The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology.
- Authors
Misra, Joya
- Abstract
In this essay, I lay out my motivations for doing publicly engaged sociology, emphasizing both the joys and the challenges of this work, and some of the key lessons that I have learned. I explore my attempts to impact policy at the federal level and the local level of my university, as well as efforts to shape changes across academia during the COVID‐19 crisis. I have found it meaningful to be working toward all of these changes. Moreover, making sense of the spaces that I inhabit, collecting data, exploring patterns, and connecting it to social theory, has deepened my thinking as a sociologist, and bettered my research more broadly.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL theory; PUBLIC sociology; JOY; PUBLIC spaces; PLEASURE; SOCIOLOGISTS
- Publication
Sociological Forum, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 1, p1124
- ISSN
0884-8971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/socf.12910