Public sociology fifteen eminent sociologists debate politics and the profession in the twenty-first century /
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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Berkeley :
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Table of Contents:
- Frances Fox Piven
- Douglas S. Massey
- Arthur L. Stinchcombe
- Lynn Smith-Lovin
- William Julius Wilson
- Patricia Hill Collins
- Judith Stacey
- Sharon Hays
- Alain Touraine
- Michael Burawoy
- Michael Burawoy.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn
- Andrew Abbott
- Orlando Patterson
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Public sociology and the end of society /
- Stalled at the altar? : conflict, hierarchy, and compartmentalization in Burawoy's public sociology /
- If I were the goddess of sociological things /
- Going public : doing the sociology that had no name /
- Speaking to publics /
- Do we need a public sociology? : it depends on what you mean by sociology /
- Speaking truth to the public, and indirectly to power /
- The strength of weak politics /
- From public sociology to politicized sociologist /
- For public sociology /
- The sociologist and the public sphere /
- About public sociology /
- For humanist sociology /
- Whose public sociology? : the subaltern speaks, but who is listening? /
- A journalist's plea /
- The field of sociology : its power and its promise /