Researching, Organizing, Educating, and Acting: Social Change and Participatory Research

As an activist and applied sociologits, I have an interest in an expanded role for the social sciences in communinity empowerment. Developed through academic traininig and collaborations with the Highlander Center and other participatory institutes, my work examines participatory research models dedicated to social change. This study draws from perspectives on power and forms of knowledge to develop an model wich expands on Participatory Research, both as a methodology and a form of empowerment. Participatry approaches offer social theorists, who are engaged in humanist and public sociology, a greater vision of the role of research for the social good