{"id":69229,"date":"2013-10-16T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=69229"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:27:18","slug":"sociologist-to-explore-connections-between-activism-service-learning-at-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/16\/sociologist-to-explore-connections-between-activism-service-learning-at-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociologist&#8217;s talk to explore challenges to activism in a neo-liberal society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69285\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/Dolgon_Corey-H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69285\" class=\"size-large wp-image-69285\" alt=\"Corey Dolgon, sociologist at Stonehill College.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/Dolgon_Corey-H-600x402.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/Dolgon_Corey-H-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/Dolgon_Corey-H-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/Dolgon_Corey-H.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Dolgon, sociologist at Stonehill College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Corey Dolgon, professor of sociology and director of community-based learning at Stonehill College, visits Bates to discuss the challenges of activism in a neo-liberal society at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, in the Keck Classroom (Room G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).<\/p>\n<p>Dolgon&#8217;s talk is titled <em>From Social Movements to Service Learning (and Back Again?): The Activist Challenge for Civic Engagement in the Age of Neo-Liberalism.<\/em>\u00a0Admission is open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is sponsored by the Department of Sociology, with co-sponsorship by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, the Department of Music, the Division of the Social Sciences and the Multifaith Chaplaincy.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 207-786-8296.<\/p>\n<p>Dolgon is widely expert in sociology and service learning, and is the author or co-author of several books, including the forthcoming <em>Living Sociology: Social Problems, Service Learning, and Civic Engagement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is also known for his &#8220;singing lectures&#8221; that focus on the role of folksongs in labor organizing and other social movements.<\/p>\n<p>Dolgon previously served as professor and chair of Worcester State College&#8217;s sociology department as well as director of its Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement. He holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in English and sociology from Boston University; a master&#8217;s in American studies from Baylor University; and a doctorate in American culture from the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociologist Corey Dolgon discusses the challenges of activism in a neo-liberal society on Oct. 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":69285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[10767],"class_list":["post-69229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-engagement","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95658,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69229\/revisions\/95658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}