What Our Members Say
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A. Javier Treviño, Wheaton College |
 “In my years of membership in SSSP, I have consistently found it to be an open, friendly, scholarly, community of colleagues committed to social justice. I particularly enjoy meeting young scholars who are always welcome in divisions, on committees and at the annual conference. A real plus is Social Problems, the SSSP’s flagship journal which makes an outstanding contribution to contemporary sociology.”
Betsy Ettorre, University of Liverpool |
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Mandy Frake-Mistak, York University |
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JoAnn Miller, Purdue University |
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Chris Wellin, Illinois State University |
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Mary Scherer, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
"SSSP connected me with numerous opportunities that aided my professional growth while I was a graduate student. During the annual meetings, I witness tremendous support for scholar-activism and benefit from the organization's ample networking opportunities. SSSP is a place where I can expect to find friendly colleagues eager to lend support and work for social justice."
Elroi J. Windsor, Salem College |
"SSSP played a central role in shaping my academic life. From the start it supported my scholar activism, awarding me a scholarship that helped me finish the dissertation. As a young scholar, people in the organization helped me find a publisher for my book. And now, as I near tenure, SSSP members are helping me with letters of support. What SSSP does best is provide an intellectual refuse and support for scholars engaged in praxis. As such, it is a unique association of scholars pushing for change."
Luis A. Fernandez, Northern Arizona University |
"SSSP is a home for critical scholars doing cutting edge research in the service of a better world. As an early career sociologist working in applied research, SSSP keeps me connected with a community of like-minded and progressive thinkers. SSSP is a warm and welcoming organization, with an exciting and engaging annual meeting and a fantastic, top-notch journal. I encourage you to join!"
Aimee K. Van Wagenen, The Fenway Institute |
"SSSP and Social Problems have always welcomed new and critical approaches to contemporary justice issues. As a graduate student I was drawn to SSSP by the seriousness with which members embraced alternative methodologies and conceptual frameworks. For me, the SSSP meetings continue to be a forum for putting me in touch with an interdisciplinary, international group of scholars and community activists doing significant justice work." Suzanne Vaughn, Arizona State University |
"I consider myself fortunate to have been actively involved in SSSP for nearly 30 years. It is a dynamic, activist-oriented professional organization, in which I find myself consistently challenged by some of the most innovative and provocative thinkers in the discipline of sociology and related fields today. It is also, though, an organization of friends -- of people I look forward to seeing and catching up with every year at the annual meeting, people who value one another as individuals, who are committed to social justice personally and professionally, and who make me feel instantly “at home.”"
Claire Renzetti, University of Kentucky |
“What I love about the SSSP is that it is a community of scholars, activists, and practitioners who do what they do because of an interest, bordering on an obligation, to make this world a more just one. If that's you, you'll feel right at home in the SSSP. That's who we are and that's why I'm serving as the society's Executive Officer."
Héctor L. Delgado, University of La Verne |
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“For more than 50 years, SSSP has been committed to scholarship in the pursuit of social justice. Its annual meetings provide a warm, friendly venue for faculty, practitioners, and students from sociology and related disciplines.”
Steven E. Barkan, University of Maine |
"SSSP is one of the few professional academic organizations that captures the spirit of praxis: the importance of linking scholarship and activism. With a focus on cutting edge research on contemporary issues and public and political engagement, SSSP is the intellectual home to academics and practitioners committed to producing and disseminating scholarship for social justice in the 21st century."
Nancy A. Naples, University of Connecticut |
“The SSSP is a terrific progressive sociological organization, with a great journal and an always friendly and interactive annual meeting. It is a particularly good place for young scholars to present their work and get to know others in their field.”
Peter Conrad, Brandeis University |
“SSSP has been my principal intellectual home--and Social Problems has been my favorite journal--for more than forty years.”
Joel Best, University of Delaware |
"For over six decades SSSP, its journal, Social Problems, and members have endeavored, each in their own way, to promote social justice and solve social problems. Motivated by care and compassion SSSP members are actively involved in the application of sociological knowledge in neighborly service. There is no other community like it. Won’t you join us in our efforts to make this a more just world?" 
"The Society for the Study of Social Problems is an outstanding organization. As a graduate student, there are so many wonderful opportunities to engage and network with others (academics and non) who share the ambition to make a positive difference. I know that my voice has been heard and respected. Moreover, I have been encouraged to participate and be visible in a variety of difference ways. This is my favourite conference by far. I look forward to speaking and learning from those who attend–professors and students alike.".jpg)
"SSSP brings scholars, policy makers, and activists together to bring about social change to achieve social justice. SSSP attempts to hear every voice and to celebrate intellectual and social diversity. SSSP members work in and contribute to their local communities and in places throughout the wider world. It is simply the most generous and the best organization to introduce students and young scholars to social justice work".
"I am a critical sociologist with interests in aging/life course, work and occupations, and qualitative methods. My involvement in SSSP in recent years has given me an opportunity to help shape the annual program, as a division chair. The Society has also provided me a renewed sense of community and shared commitment--with people in other disciplines, as well as roles in direct service and advocacy--that is extremely hard to find in other professional associations. Both the scale and the ethos of SSSP have greatly enhanced my career and my ties with essential colleagues."
"Grad students often bemoan the pressure to give up on activist-based research in favor of more disinterested, scholarly pursuits, not realizing that SSSP has a richly cultivated tradition of proving that activism can be scholarly, and scholarship can--and should--incite social change. I would be a member of this organization even if I wasn’t pursuing a career in academia. Fortunately, others feel the same way, and you’re as likely to run into a local community organizer as a big-name sociologist at the annual conference."