Our Members Share their Experiences...
"SSSP has connected me with numerous opportunities that have aided my professional growth as a graduate student. I have networked with prestigious scholars at annual meetings while serving the organization through committees and divisions. SSSP continues to be a place where I can expect to find friendly colleagues eager to lend support and work for social justice."
----Elroi J. Windsor, Georgia State University |
"SSSP played a central role in shaping my academic life. From the start it supported my scholar activism, awarding me a scholarship that helped me finish the dissertation. As a young scholar, people in the organization helped me find a publisher for my book. And now, as I near tenure, SSSP members are helping me with letters of support. What SSSP does best is provide an intellectual refuse and support for scholars engaged in praxis. As such, it is a unique association of scholars pushing for change." -----Luis A. Fernandez, Northern Arizona University
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"SSSP is a home for critical scholars doing cutting edge research in the service of a better world. As an early career sociologist working in applied research, SSSP keeps me connected with a community of like-minded and progressive thinkers. SSSP is a warm and welcoming organization, with an exciting and engaging annual meeting and a fantastic, top-notch journal. I encourage you to join!"
----Aimee K. Van Wagenen, The Fenway Institute |
"I consider myself fortunate to have been actively involved in SSSP for nearly 30 years. It is a dynamic, activist-oriented professional organization, in which I find myself consistently challenged by some of the most innovative and provocative thinkers in the discipline of sociology and related fields today. It is also, though, an organization of friends -- of people I look forward to seeing and catching up with every year at the annual meeting, people who value one another as individuals, who are committed to social justice personally and professionally, and who make me feel instantly “at home.”" -----Claire Renzetti, University of Dayton
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“What I love about the SSSP is that it is a community of scholars, activists, and practitioners who do what they do because of an interest, bordering on an obligation, to make this world a more just one. If that's you, you'll feel right at home in the SSSP. That's who we are and that's why I' serving as the society's Executive Officer." -----Héctor L. Delgado, University of La Verne
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"From the first meeting I attended as a graduate student, the SSSP has played a major role in my professional socialization. Winning a divisional student paper award encouraged me to pursue the topic that eventually became my dissertation and, ultimately, my first book. I also had the opportunity to co-chair a SSSP division as a graduate student, which made it possible for me to work with outstanding veteran sociologists.” ----Jean Elson, University of New Hampshire
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“For more than 50 years, SSSP has been committed to scholarship in the pursuit of social justice. Its annual meetings provide a warm, friendly venue for faculty, practitioners, and students from sociology and related disciplines.” ----Steven E. Barkan, University of Maine
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"SSSP is one of the few professional academic organizations that captures the spirit of praxis: the importance of linking scholarship and activism. With a focus on cutting edge research on contemporary issues and public and political engagement, SSSP is the intellectual home to academics and practitioners committed to producing and disseminating scholarship for social justice in the 21st century." -----Nancy A. Naples, University of Connecticut
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“The SSSP is a terrific progressive sociological organization, with a great journal and an always friendly and interactive annual meeting. It is a particularly good place for young scholars to present their work and get to know others in their field.” ----Peter Conrad, Brandeis University
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“SSSP has been my principal intellectual home--and Social Problems has been my favorite journal--for more than forty years.” ----Joel Best, University of Delaware
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