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Student Activism And Curricular Change In Higher Education, Mikaila Arthur
Student Activism And Curricular Change In Higher Education, Mikaila Arthur
Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understanding of what knowledge counts as legitimate and important. Therefore, understanding the college curriculum and how it is changed and shaped helps us to understand the overall dynamics of knowledge in contemporary society. This book considers the emergence of three curricular fields that have developed and spread over the past half century in American higher education - Women's studies, Asian American studies and Queer/LGBT studies. It details the broader history of their development as knowledge fields and then …
Expanding The Toolbox: Comparative-Historical Methodology Looks To The Future, Mikaila Arthur
Expanding The Toolbox: Comparative-Historical Methodology Looks To The Future, Mikaila Arthur
Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
Comparative-historical research methods are often seen as the providence of old-fashioned researchers interested only in long-ago times, and students learning about research methods can pass through their methods courses with negligible exposure to the concepts and techniques of comparative-historical research. Yet these methods have much to offer sociologists of all stripes. This paper introduces the key assumptions of comparative-historical methodology and outlines several key approaches to comparative-historical scholarship, including historiography, large-N comparative scholarship, negative case methods, and formal methods. It then considers the critiques of comparative-historical methods that have come from both positivist and interpretivist schools of researchers. Finally, it …