Description |
vii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Subject |
Sociology -- Methodology.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Applied sociology.
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Added Author |
Clawson, Dan.
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ISBN |
0520251385 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780520251373 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0520251377 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780520251380 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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