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Becoming a footnote : an activist-scholar finds his voice, learns to write, and survives academia / Sanford F. Schram.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schram, Sanford.
Series:
SUNY series in new political science
SUNY series in New Political Science
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social scientists--United States--Biography.
Social scientists.
Political activists--United States--Biography.
Political activists.
College teachers--New York (State)--Biography.
College teachers.
Scholars--United States--Biography.
Scholars.
Social sciences--Study and teaching.
Social sciences.
Social problems--Study and teaching.
Social problems.
Schram, Sanford.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Humorous and witty recollections of the author's journey from insecure graduate student to noted activist/scholar.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: How I Had Four Majors in College
Chapter Two: Going Postal, Getting Drafted: How I Ended Up in Graduate School
Chapter Three: How I Learned To Read
How I Learned to Think
How I Learned to Write
Chapter Four: I Went Down to the Crossroads: Activism and Scholarship
An Academic Crossroads: From Political Gerontology to Welfare Politics
Chapter Five: Standing on Shoulders: Scholarship as Networking
The Threesome
Getting Mentored
It Takes a Village
Words of Welfare
Do I Have to Paint a Picture?
Chapter Six: Theory and Practice: Research and the Court
Welfare Migration
Re‑narrating Welfare Migration: A Statistical Project
Revisiting Schram, Nitz, and Krueger
Chapter Seven: Is Anybody Listening? Testifying before Congress
A Minor Distraction from the Modest Proposal
Testifying: A Question of Discourse
A State‑Type Thing
Chapter Eight: Calling Out Racial Bias: Images, Words, and Numbers
Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Bad
Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good
For Now: The New Jim Crow
Chapter Nine: The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Enduring Identities in Dependency Discourse
How It Works
Spoiled Identity in welfare Policy Discourse
The Medicalized Self
The Persistence of the Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingnes
Chapter Ten: Three Heads Are Better than One: Collaboration, Mixed Methods, and Disciplining the Poor
On the Beach in January
The Experiment
A Theoretical Dispute
Three Heads Are Beter than One
Chapter Eleven: Moving On: Turning To Europe
Chapter Twelve: Making It Matter: Real Social Science in the Neoliberal Academy
Ships Passing in the Night
Conclusion: A Postscript on Writing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781438447766
1438447760
OCLC:
869735638

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