SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Public Sociology, Program Evaluation, William Graham Sumner
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Goal: analyze some aspect of society to gain knowledge. Goal: work towards a specific outcome in a given context. Goal: communicating knowledge to a broader public for their benefit. Evaluation research: seeks to understand the effects of a program, policy, or effort to affect a. Implications may not be presented in a way people can understand. Visible impact on lobbying groups on government. Social intervention: action taken to produce a specific, intended result. Needs-assessment studies: determine the existence of a problem. Cost-benefit studies: whether a program can be justified. Monitoring studies: provides a flow of information over time. Program evaluation: used to determine if a social intervention has achieved its intended results. Seeks to bring sociology to the public beyond the academy. Should promote a dialogue about issues that affect society. Goal: bring insight gained from sociological analysis into public conversations. Includes scholarship and activities driven by the priorities of the discipline.
