Oxford University Press, USA
Problem-Solving Sociology: A Guide for Students
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- Monica Prasad
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Hardcover
- 9780197558485
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- Social Science > Research
- English
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Most students arrive in graduate sociology programs eager to engage with the pressing social and political issues of the day. Yet that initial enthusiasm does not always survive the professional socialization of graduate school. In Problem-Solving Sociology, Monica Prasad shows graduate students and
early career sociologists how to conduct research that uses sociological theory to help solve real-world problems, and how to use problem-solving to improve sociological theory. Prasad discusses how to be objective when examining issues of injustice and oppression, and provides methodological
strategies and plenty of exercises for research aimed at creating change. She gives examples throughout of problem-solving research conducted at all levels, from undergraduate theses to the major figures of the discipline. She also considers how to respond to some common objections; where
problem-solving fits into the landscape of sociological practice; and how to build a life in problem-solving.
Author Bio
Monica Prasad's areas of interest are political sociology, economic sociology, and comparative historical sociology. She has written three award-winning books using comparative and historical methods to examine the political economy of the United States and Europe, including the history and divergent trajectories of welfare states, the rise of “neoliberalism,” and the origins of distinct patterns of economic growth in different countries and their consequences for redistribution.
Her scholarship has received the Fulbright award, the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and several other grants and awards.
Her new book, Problem-Solving Sociology, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Education
- Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2000 (Sociology)
- M.A. University of Chicago, 1995 (Sociology)
- M.A. Johns Hopkins University, 1993 (Writing Seminars)
- B.A. Yale University, 1991 (English and Religious Studies), summa cum laude
Source: Northwestern University
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