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
by Dan Clawson (Editor), Robert Zussman (Editor), Joya Misra (Editor), Naomi Gerstel (Editor), Randall Stokes (Editor)

* Paperback: 286 pages
* Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (June 6, 2007)

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.

Introductory
Introduction Robert Zussman Joya Misra 3
For Public Sociology Michael Burawoy 23
Institutionalizing Public Sociology
Public Sociology and the End of Society Alain Touraine 67
Stalled at the Altar? Conflict, Hierarchy, and Compartmentalization in Burawoy's Public Sociology Sharon Hays 79
If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things Judith Stacey 91
Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name Patricia Hill Collins 101
Politics and the Profession
Speaking to Publics William Julius Wilson 117
Do We Need a Public Sociology? It Depends on What You Mean by Sociology Lynn Smith-Lovin 124
Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power Arthur L. Stinchcombe 135
The Strength of Weak Politics Douglas S. Massey 145
From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist Frances Fox Piven 158
False Distinctions: Conceptual Reservations
The Sociologist and the Public Sphere Immanuel Wallerstein 169
About Public Sociology Orlando Patterson 176
For Humanist Sociology Andrew Abbott 195
Interdisciplinarity
Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks, but Who Is Listening? Evelyn Nakano Glenn 213
A Journalist's Plea Barbara Ehrenreich 231
Rejoinder
The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise Michael Burawoy 241
Editors and Contributors 259
Index 263


the phrase (public sociology) is by itself putting the question wrongly, the homo academicus' around here should read some Bourdieu