Environmental chemicals and public sociology: engaged scholarship on highly fluorinated compounds
Environmental chemicals and public sociology: engaged scholarship on highly fluorinated compounds
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DOI：
10.1080/23251042.2019.1629271
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发表时间：
2019-06-23
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Brown, Phil
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作者：
Cordner, Alissa;Richter, Lauren;Brown, Phil
我们在这里报告的全氟烷基和多氟烷基物质（PFAS），近年来已成为一个众所周知的“新兴污染物”的化学物质的多方面的研究机构。我们的PFAS项目团队超过10名研究人员-教师，博士后，研究生和本科生-自2015年以来一直致力于研究PFAS污染的程度和健康影响，通过广泛的参与公共社会学模型。我们的研究模式将有机公共社会学与基于社区的参与式研究元素相结合，这是一种在环境健康科学中最广泛使用的相关但独特的研究形式。基于长期的，以地方为基础的关系，我们从事公共社会学已经导致了许多学术，监管和社会运动的影响。我们认为，这种形式的参与，以干预为导向的公共社会学是适当的，有利于在环境社会学的许多领域的研究，在当前的社会和生态的利害关系。公共社会学涉及与广泛构想的社区或公众合作，反思性研究。它通过解决社区成员感兴趣的研究课题来促进以前未完成的科学的创建，并允许研究人员通过充当反射性，观察性的参与者直接为环境和社会正义运动做出贡献。
We report here on a multifaceted body of research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), chemicals that have become a well-known group of 'emerging contaminants' in recent years. Our PFAS Project team of over 10 researchers - faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates - has been working since 2015 to study the extent and health effects of PFAS contamination through a broad model of engaged public sociology. Our model of research combines organic public sociology with elements of community-based participatory research, a related but distinct research form most widely used in the environmental health sciences. Based on long-term, place-based relationships, our engaged public sociology has led to numerous academic, regulatory, and social movement effects. We argue that this form of engaged, intervention-oriented public sociology is appropriate and beneficial for research in many areas of environmental sociology given the social and ecological stakes in the current moment. Engaged public sociology involves collaborative, reflexive research with broadly-conceived communities or publics. It facilitates the creation of previously undone science by addressing research topics of interest to community members, and allows researchers to directly contribute to environmental and social justice movements by acting as reflexive, observant participants.