{"id":387,"date":"2016-02-03T03:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/home\/?p=387"},"modified":"2016-08-02T05:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T05:51:02","slug":"do-good-feel-good-making-an-impact-as-a-sociologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Do Good, Feel Good: Making an Impact as a Sociologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can we use our research skills to make social impact? The answer is a resounding <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our 2015 clients are supporting refugee relief efforts in Europe through a donation from Insights360. Last September, I was in Vienna for \u2018holiday\u2019 and ended up spending days and evenings helping refugees who were passing through the Vienna train station (Hauptbahnhof).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What can a sociologist do for these people in such need? I did all I could do\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I listened attentively<\/li>\n<li>Captured people&#8217;s stories<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Used my languages to help people find their way<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/AVienna-Refugees-Collage-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-388 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/AVienna-Refugees-Collage-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A&amp;Vienna Refugees Collage\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will deliver Insights360\u2019s donation personally when I return to Vienna in April for an international research conference. \u00a0I look forward to sharing stories with you when we meet this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about the refugee crisis in Europe and the organization I worked with in Vienna, visit these helpful resources:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/01\/world\/middleeast\/europe-refugee-crisis-syria-civil-war.html?_r=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refugee Crisis in Europe Prompts Western Engagement in Syria<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=de&amp;u=http:\/\/www.trainofhope.at\/&amp;prev=search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Train of Hope<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Non-profit organization<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we use our research skills to make social impact? The answer is a resounding yes. Our 2015 clients are supporting refugee relief efforts in Europe through a donation from Insights360. Last September, I was in Vienna for \u2018holiday\u2019 and ended up spending days and evenings helping refugees who were passing through the Vienna train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}