Public Ideas: Their Varieties and Careers
This project examines how social science ideas become public ideas, and in doing so it develops a sociology of public social science. The project asks, what are public ideas and how do they come to be?
The Sociological Research Practicum (SRP) was an annual data collection project from 1965 to 2024. Each year, a faculty member in the Department of Sociology was chosen as the Principal Investigator (PI) to design and manage the project. The topic and type of method varied each year, reflecting the interest of the PI. The SRP began in 1965 as the Indianapolis Area Project. Read more about the SRP's history, goals, and resources. In 2024, the SRP was re-envisioned to focus on graduate students' completion of the empirical paper.
