Research and Social Change: The Role of Activist Intellectuals

Below is a list of articles you will find helpful from the perspective of sorting out your critical standpoint (your normative views or what we we refer to in class as your "critical voice." In the Senior Sequence guide to literature, I label these readings under the heading "Advocacy, engaged research and the public intellectual."

• Calavita , K. (2002). "Engaged research, "goose bumps," and the role of the public intellectual." Law & Society Review 36 (1): 5-20.
• Calavita, K. - "Engaged research, "goose bumps," and the role of the public intellectual.
• Domhoff , G. W. (2002). Who rules America ? : power and politics . Boston , McGraw Hill: 199-211.
• Krumholz, N. - "Advocacy and Equity Planning"
• Markusen, A. - "The activist intellectual"
• Pezzoli, K. - On-line links: Empowering people through research-driven civic engagement
• Sandercock , L. (1998). Making the invisible visible : a multicultural planning history. Berkeley , University ofCalifornia Press: 12-13.
• Seidel, G., and Laurent Vidal (1997). The implications of 'medical,' 'gender in development' and ' culturalist ' discourses for HIV/AIDS policy in Africa . Anthropology of policy : critical perspectives on governance and power. C. Shore and S. Wright. London ; New York , Routledge: 59-87.
• Silka, L. - "Addressing the challenge of community collaborations"
• Sismondo, S. - "Standpoint Theory, in Science"
• Sonnert, G. and Holton, G. J. - Chapter 1 from Ivory Bridges: connecting science and society
• Thiel, C. - "Normative Aspects of Social and Behavioral Science"

Also see section 4.2 - Intellectual life and civic engagement. The most important readings of section 4.2 are listed below.

1. Conceptualization and Theory-Building

1.1 Critical theory/ critical realism

• Cohen, D., R. De la Vega, et al. (2001). Advocacy for social justice : a global action and reflection guide. Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press.
• Cruickshank, J. (2003). Critical realism : the difference in makes. London ; New York, Routledge.
• Danermark, B., M. Ekstrom, et al. (2002). Explaining society : critical realism in the social sciences. London ; New York, Routledge.
• Harvey, L. (1990). Critical social research. London ; Boston, Unwim Hyman.
• Layder, D. (1998). Sociological practice : linking theory and social research. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage.
• Lofland, J. (1996). Social movement organizations : guide to research on insurgent realities. New York, Aldine de Gruyter.
• O'Connor, A. (2001). Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.
• Peet, R. and M. Watts (2004). Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements. London ; New York, Routledge.
• Ristock, J. L. and J. Pennell (1996). Community research as empowerment : feminist links, postmodern interruptions. Toronto ; New York, Oxford University Press.
• Rubin, H. J. (2000). Renewing hope within neighborhoods of despair : the community-based development model. Albany, State University of New York Press.
• Sayer, R. A. (1992). Method in social science : a realist approach. London ; New York, Routledge.
• Sayer, R. A. (2000). Realism and social science. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage.
• Shore, C. and S. Wright (1997). Anthropology of policy : critical perspectives on governance and power. London ; New York, Routledge.
• Soja, E. W. (2000). Postmetropolis : critical studies of cities and regions. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishers.
• Wildavsky, A. B. (1987). Speaking truth to power : the art and craft of policy analysis. New Brunswick, USA, Transaction Books.

  Journal articles and on-line sources

• Archer, M. S. (2003). The private life of the social agent: What difference does it make? Critical realism : the difference in makes. J. Cruickshank. London ; New York, Routledge: 17-29.
• Bohman, J. Critical Theory: Frankfurt School. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Bohman, J. (2003). Critical theory as practical knowledge: Participants, observers and critics. The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of the social sciences. S. P. Turner and P. A. Roth. Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, MA, Blackwell Pub.: 91-109.
• Cruickshank, J. (2003). Underlabouring and unemployment: Notes for developing a critical realist approach to the agency of the chronically unemployed. Critical realism : the difference in makes. J. Cruickshank. London ; New York, Routledge: 111-127.
• Gordon, R. W. Critical Legal Studies. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Harding, S. (2003). How standpoint methodology informs philosophy of social science. The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of the social sciences. S. P. Turner and P. A. Roth. Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, MA, Blackwell Pub.: 291-310.
• Harris, A. Critical Race Theory. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Kincheloe, J. L. a. P. M. (2003). Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research. The landscape of qualitative research : theories and issues. N. K. Denzin, and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage: 433-488.
• Layder, D. (1998). Chapter 1: The Links between theory and research; and Chapter 5: From theory to data, Starting to Theorize. Sociological practice : linking theory and social research. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage: 1-27, 100-131.
• Patton, P. Postmodernism: Philosophical Aspects. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Ray, L. Critical Theory: Contemporary. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Rosenau, P. V. Postmodernism: Methodology. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Sandercock, L. (1998). Framing insurgent historiographies. Making the invisible visible : a multicultural planning history. L. Sandercock. Berkeley, University of California Press: (pp?) front cover to end of chap. labled "framing insurgent historiographies."
• Sayer, A. Critical Realism in Geography. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Sayer, R. A. (2000). Part IV, Critical realism: From critique of normative theory. Realism and social science. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage: 155-188.
• Seidel, G., and Laurent Vidal (1997). The implications of 'medical,' 'gender in development' and 'culturalist' discourses for HIV/AIDS policy in Africa. Anthropology of policy : critical perspectives on governance and power. C. Shore and S. Wright. London ; New York, Routledge: 59-87.
• Sheppard, E. Geographic Information Systems: Critical Approaches. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Soja, E. W. Postmodernism in Geography. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.