Public sociology : fifteen eminent sociologists debate politics and the profession in the twenty-first century

Public sociology : fifteen eminent sociologists debate politics and the profession in the twenty-first century / edited by Dan Clawson [and others].

In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy when he issued an ambitious and impassioned call for a "public sociology." Burawoy argued that sociology should speak beyond the university. This volume debates the...

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Other Authors: Clawson, Dan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Sociology > Methodology.
Sociology > Philosophy.
Applied sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Applied sociology
Sociology > Methodology
Sociology > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • For public sociology / Michael Burawoy
  • Public sociology and the end of society / Alain Touraine
  • Stalled at the altar? : conflict, hierarchy, and compartmentalization in Burawoy's public sociology / Sharon Hays
  • If I were the goddess of sociological things / Judith Stacey
  • Going public : doing the sociology that had no name / Patricia Hill Collins
  • Speaking to publics / William Julius Wilson
  • Do we need a public sociology? : it depends on what you mean by sociology / Lynn Smith-Lovin
  • Speaking truth to the public, and indirectly to power / Arthur L. Stinchcombe
  • The strength of weak politics / Douglas S. Massey
  • From public sociology to politicized sociologist / Frances Fox Piven
  • The sociologist and the public sphere / Immanuel Wallerstein
  • About public sociology / Orlando Patterson
  • For humanist sociology / Andrew Abbott
  • Whose public sociology? : the subaltern speaks, but who is listening? / Evelyn Nakano Glenn
  • A journalist's plea / Barbara Ehrenreich
  • The field of sociology : its power and its promise / Michael Burawoy.

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