Public sociology [[electronic resource] ] : ideas, arguments, and visions for the future / / edited by Dan Clawson ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetto topico: Sociology - Methodology; Sociology - Philosophy; Applied sociology
• Soggetto non controllato: academics; american sociological association; anthropology; civil society; conceptual reservations; critical examinations; hierarchy; historical context; humanist sociology; institutionalization of public sociology; interdisciplinary; politics; power dynamics; professional debate; public activism; public policy; public sociology; public sphere; sharing with the public; social context; social movements; sociology; speaking to the public; theoretical; weak politics
• Altri autori: ClawsonDan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- For Public Sociology -- Public Sociology and the End of Society -- Stalled at the Altar? -- If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things -- Going Public -- Speaking to Publics -- Do We Need a Public Sociology? -- Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power -- The Strength of Weak Politics -- From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist -- The Sociologist and the Public Sphere -- About Public Sociology -- For Humanist Sociology -- Whose Public Sociology? -- A Journalist's Plea -- The Field of Sociology -- Editors and Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, engaging with social movements and deepening an understanding of the historical and social context in which they exist. In this volume, renowned sociologists come together to debate the perils and the potentials of Burawoy's challenge. Contributors: Andrew Abbott, Michael Burawoy, Patricia Hill Collins, Barbara Ehrenreich, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Sharon Hays, Douglas Massey, Joya Misra, Orlando Patterson, Frances Fox Piven, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Judith Stacey, Arthur Stinchcombe, Alain Touraine, Immanuel Wallerstein, William Julius Wilson, Robert Zussman
• Titolo autorizzato: Public sociology
• ISBN: 0-520-94075-X; 0-520-25137-7; 1-282-36025-6; 1-4294-7809-8; 9786612360251
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789305303321
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