Mehan2008

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Mehan2008
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mehan2008
Author(s) Hugh Mehan
Title Engaging the Sociological Imagination: My Journey into Design Research and Public Sociology
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Tag(s) EMCA, education, Hugh Mehan, sociological imagination, critical ethnography, public sociology, design research, inequality
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Year 2008
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Journal Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Volume 39
Number 1
Pages 77–91
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DOI 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00006.x
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Abstract

I chronicle the changes in my research, especially those that have moved me closer to C. Wright Mills's call for a “sociological imagination” and Dell Hymes's reinvented anthropology. As I spend more time attempting to create and describe equitable educational environments and less time documenting educational inequality, I have adopted a version of “design research.” I describe the possibilities and limitations of trying to conduct research while participating in the phenomenon under investigation.

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