The American South’s significance to sociology has a long and rich tradition that continues to this day. We would have known long ago that Southern sociologists and institutions were the first to embrace the discipline, establish methodological practices now commonplace in research studies and publications, and produce people-centric and public facing scholarship we now call scholar-activism and public sociology.
Had our sights been set on the South we would have learned long ago that this region was consequential, in ways both positive and negative, to our understandings and applications of the discipline. Only recently have scholars seriously investigated the role of Southern based scholars and institutions on the discipline’s emergence and development. Narratives on the origin and development of sociology in the United States largely focus on the individual and institutional exploits of scholars located at Midwestern and Northeastern institutions. Smith University, Program Co-ChairĭeMond Miller, Rowan University, Program Co-Chair Theme
Wayne M.2023 Annual Meeting “I Will Find A Way or Make One”: Embracing and Advancing the American South’s Tradition of Sociological Innovation and Scholar-ActivismĮarl Wright II, Rhodes College, President, Southern Sociological Society, 2022-2023Īnita Bledsoe-Gardner, Johnson C.
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