Civic Engagement

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Sociology Ruins Everything

Matt Sedlar

23 episodes

1 month ago

The sociological imagination is great, but really, it ruins all your favorite things. This podcast, hosted by Matt Sedlar, takes a topic each month and explores it from a sociological perspective.

Social Sciences

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The sociological imagination is great, but really, it ruins all your favorite things. This podcast, hosted by Matt Sedlar, takes a topic each month and explores it from a sociological perspective.

Social Sciences

Science

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Civic Engagement

Sociology Ruins Everything

41 minutes 10 seconds

9 months ago

Civic Engagement

You pay your taxes, you vote, and you follow the laws. Does that make you a good citizen? If you said yes, according to a 2019 Pew Center Research survey, most Americans agree with you. However, do these things make you civically engaged? This episode explores what it means to be a civically engaged social scientist and how we now need engaged researchers more than ever.

Show Notes

Philip Cohen on social media

⁠https://bsky.app/profile/philipncohen.com⁠

⁠https://x.com/familyunequal⁠

Cohen, Philip (2025). Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231204194/

Lynd, Robert (2016). Knowledge for what: The Place of Social Science in American Culture.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691648088/knowledge-for-what?srsltid=AfmBOooZ52chxPtWIMMbwPgf9X8f6qHRJd5S_3CajC0cA-svipnDrOEq

Putnam, Robert (2000). Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

http://bowlingalone.com/

SocArXiv

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv