Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century
Dan Clawson,Robert Zussman,Joya Misra,Naomi Gerstel,Randall Stokes | 2007-06-06 00:00:00 | University of California Press | 286 | Americas
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
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This volume debates the value, practices, and position of the sub-field of public sociology. The authors and articles were selected with a view to presenting multiple positions and perspectives. Each argument is excellent in itself, but the overall effect of reading the best of the contributions to the debate in one volume is the a sense of the scope and vitality of the field of sociology and the many ways it deliberately and self-consciously contributes to public activism, public policy, critical examination and academic standards and innovation.
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