Urban Sociologist Joseph 'Piko' Ewoodzie Brings Students to the Big Picture
July 16, 2019
Joseph Ewoodzie, Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Sociology
If your car檚 air conditioning isn檛 working, turning the knob back and forth repeatedly isn檛 going to fix it. You must open the hood to see what檚 really going on.
淚f we see an achievement gap, for example, like black kids aren檛 scoring as high on tests, you can檛 say it檚 the black kids causing the problem, he said. 淭hat檚 like saying the air conditioning just won檛 work. Sociologists are lifting the hood of society to see what we don檛 understand. What is happening at the very bottom of this issue?
Ewoodzie arrived in 91茄子 after growing up in Ghana and making educational and career stops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and the South Bronx. He set his sights on 91茄子 before a job was even available because he wanted to teach at a small liberal arts institution, in the South, near a city and near a Historically Black College or University (HBCU).
Students work so much harder if the work they檙e doing is bigger than their professor.
