WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
4:45 PM to 6:00 PM

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SESSION 15:  PLENARY SALONS A-D


Social Action Research as Vehicles of Empowered Social Change in Multiethnic and Ethnically Different Communities

Chair: Rodney Hopson, Duquesne University
Speaker: John H. Stanfield, II, Morehouse College
Discussants: Michael Quinn Patton, Utilization-focused Evaluation
  Ernest House, University of Colorado

John Stanfield is the Avalon Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department of Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.  Two of his major publications are: Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods, (an edited volume with Rutledge Dennis, Sage, 1993), and "Ethnic Modeling in Qualitative Research" (a chapter in The Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage, 1994).  Dr. Stanfield will explore ways to develop more effective measures of the utilization of social science research to empower people, especially poor people.  He will consider the power and authority relations of universities and government agencies to communities, and researchers to targeted populations.  He will also discuss models for advancing collaboration between researchers and participants.

Reception to follow in Salons E-F 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

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