TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction. Voices from the Margins
T2 - Inequalities in the Sociological House
AU - Morris, Aldon D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/5
Y1 - 2017/5
N2 - Sociologists study social inequality in all aspects of life, both locally and across the globe. Yet, they seldom examine their own house. The time has come for sociologists to take a hard look in the mirror, to be reflexive about how social inequality operates within our departments, within our professional organizations, and within our discipline. Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, for example, matter in society as well as in our discipline. It could not be otherwise, as we, sociologists, carry the imprint of the social. Consciously and unconsciously, through our actions and inactions, we reproduce social inequalities in sociology despite our collective support for diversity and inclusion. This special section follows the town hall plenary at the 2016 American Sociological Association meetings in Seattle, Washington, calling for extended discussion and debate regarding the multiple ways in which social cleavages are reproduced in sociology. The contributors offer their thoughts on the most important issues currently facing sociology and what needs to happen moving forward.
AB - Sociologists study social inequality in all aspects of life, both locally and across the globe. Yet, they seldom examine their own house. The time has come for sociologists to take a hard look in the mirror, to be reflexive about how social inequality operates within our departments, within our professional organizations, and within our discipline. Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, for example, matter in society as well as in our discipline. It could not be otherwise, as we, sociologists, carry the imprint of the social. Consciously and unconsciously, through our actions and inactions, we reproduce social inequalities in sociology despite our collective support for diversity and inclusion. This special section follows the town hall plenary at the 2016 American Sociological Association meetings in Seattle, Washington, calling for extended discussion and debate regarding the multiple ways in which social cleavages are reproduced in sociology. The contributors offer their thoughts on the most important issues currently facing sociology and what needs to happen moving forward.
KW - American Sociological Association
KW - decolonizing the social
KW - engaged sociology
KW - exclusion
KW - racism
KW - sexism
KW - social inequality
KW - white male privilege
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U2 - 10.1093/socpro/spx005
DO - 10.1093/socpro/spx005
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85028673797
VL - 64
SP - 177
EP - 178
JO - Social Problems
JF - Social Problems
SN - 0037-7791
IS - 2
ER -