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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Sociological Imagination"”.
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The sociological imagination of S.E.K Mqhayi: towards an African Sociology
What areas of social life do our existing social theories allow us to understand, and what areas of society leave us baffled, unsettled and unable to respond? This paper will argue that we are in need of new interpretive tools to allow us to understand the areas of our social world that have …
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Wendell Berry's Sociological Imagination: Agrarian Values and Good Leadership in a Postmodern Culture
… do the writings of Wendell Berry, reflecting his sociological imagination, address and advance leadership theory with specific regard for the issue of agrarian values?</p> <p><em>Method</em>. I used the writings of Wendell Berry as a modified case study for my inductive, theoretical, exploratory …
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Emancipatory education and democratic politics: An analysis of the sociological imagination in a first grade classroom
<p>This autoethnographic research follows my personal and professional experiences as an elementary teacher reflecting upon the travails and joys that come with journeying toward a more liberating pedagogy and democratic experience along with first grade students. Braced with Freire’s 1970 …
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Post Revolutionary Times? Activism and Acquiescence in the Generations of Black Clergy Following King
… or disadvantaged developed a consciousness, or sociological imagination, which enabled them to educate congregation members on current social ails and effectively redirect church resources towards causes which sought to alleviate certain forms of human suffering. Though bounded by the …
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Disruption, Dissent, and Dialogue: YPAR as a Pedagogical and Institutional Tool
… which is what informed this study. Centering a sociological imagination within the context of praxis, I then designed a youth participatory action research (YPAR) study. By utilizing a YPAR approach to design a standards-based curriculum in the form of lessons, I worked with nine high school …
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Crítica al paisaje cultural como estrategia de conservación del patrimonio paisajístico en Costa Rica : políticas, prácticas y desafíos, el caso de la ciudad de Golfito.
… World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Utilizing sociological imagination and critical discourse analysis, this study delves into the colonial implications of the UNESCO designation, which serves as a centralized and universalized reference point, shaping doctrinal notions about heritage and …
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Participating in Radical Visual Sociology: Supporting housing activism through gentrification and displacement research
… of community arts and activism. Combining sociological research with a community arts project and the production, publication and launch of a book, this research offers rich understandings of the lived experiences of gentrification-induced displacement while also enacting these …
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University sustainability in times of uncertainty: The impact of Brexit on EU staff and students
… Wright Mills’ theoretical perspective of The Sociological Imagination. Employing a Mixed Method Research (MMR) approach, it analyses macro-level quantitative data on EU staff, students, and research funding, alongside qualitative micro-level research on the pull factors that attracted EU staff …
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Education Otherwise: An Inquiry into Young People’s Perceptions of Their Educational Experience at Two Alternative Educational Settings in Norway
… of the two schools. Appealing to the narrative imagination, these stories are displayed in an interpretative format that draws from poetic composition in an attempt to present richly tapestried, biographically contextualized accounts of young people's educational experiences. Mobilizing the …
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Occupy Wall Street: An "Imaginative" Exploration of the September, 2011 Protests in New York City
The Occupy Wall Street Movement on September 17, 2011 that involved public protest and the occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district, is an important example of mass public dissent in American history. The conflict that lies at the heart of the protests is between two …
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Exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN's) National Program Development in Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparative Study of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh
… political science. Secondly, it applies a fuller sociological imagination to the study of IOs by critically exploring one of the largest and most active nature conservation organizations in the world. Thirdly, it also explores how IUCN actually goes about building protectoral programs with …