Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems. A. Javier Trevio and Karen M. McCormack
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With both contemporary and historical analyses, the book traces the legacy, characteristics, contours, and goals of the sociology of service, shedding light on its roots in early American sociology and its deep connections to activism, before examining the social context that underlies the call for volunteerism, community involvement and non-profit organisations, as well as the strategies that have promise in remedying contemporary social problems.

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With both contemporary and historical analyses, the book traces the legacy, characteristics, contours, and goals of the sociology of service, shedding light on its roots in early American sociology and its deep connections to activism, before examining the social context that underlies the call for volunteerism, community involvement and non-profit organisations, as well as the strategies that have promise in remedying contemporary social problems.
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A. Javier Treviño is Jane Oxford Keiter Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College, USA. He is the author of The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills, The Sociology of Law: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives and The Sociology of Law: A Bibliography of Theoretical Literature. He is the editor of Talcott Parsons on Law and the Legal System, Classic Writings in Law and Society, Talcott Parsons Today: His Theory and Legacy in Contemporary Sociology and Goffman's Legacy, and co-editor of Understanding Crime: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Karen M. McCormack is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College, USA. Her recent publications include 'Understanding Foreclosure Risk: The Role of Nativity and Gender', with Iyar Mazar (Critical Sociology 2013) and 'Comfort and Burden: The Changing Meaning of Home for Owners At-Risk of Foreclosure' (Symbolic Interaction 2012).