COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING - PROMISES AND PROBLEMS

Community service-learning, where students serve as community voluntee rs in poor, urban neighborhoods, holds the potential to enhance the so ciology curriculum. But community service-learning is not easily imple mented, and even when these programs are institutionalized, problems a rise with the integration of academic content and community experience . This article describes how a community service-learning program oper ates in the introductory sociology course, discusses some of the probl ems that typically arise in coordinating academic concepts with commun ity work, and concludes by suggesting some modest remedies.