Civics as applied sociology.

From: Social Justice | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: Weinstein, Jay | Copyright information

THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN APPLIED SOCIOLOGY AND democracy. (1) Those who identify, at least in part, as practitioners are well aware that sociologists do many things in addition to teaching students to become sociologists who will in turn teach students to become sociologists. During the past several years, I have worked in a private consulting practice, taught non-sociology majors to be more sociological in their careers as engineers, school teachers, city pla...

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