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Informationen zum Autor Dan Clawson! Robert Zussman! Joya Misra! Naomi Gerstel! Randall Stokes! and Douglas L. Anderton teach in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts. Michael Burawoy ! former president of the American Sociological Association! is Professor of Sociology at the University of California! Berkeley. Klappentext “If the standpoint of economics is the market and its expansion, and the standpoint of political science is the state and the guarantee of political stability, then the standpoint of sociology is civil society and the defense of the social. In times of market tyranny and state despotism, sociology—and in particular its public face—defends the interests of humanity.”—Michael Burawoy, past president of the American Sociological Association “Sociologists should—indeed must—speak forcefully on important issues whenever they have something to say, but they should do so as individuals and not collectively as a profession.”—Douglas Massey, past president of the American Sociological Association “If we aren’t doing public sociology, we’re just talking to each other. To claim to study society and to say that you needn’t bother to make your work relevant or accessible to social members—well, that seems to me just plain insane.”—Sharon Hays, Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies, University of Southern California "Once we acknowledge the sharp divisions in our society, we have to decide which publics we want to work with. I propose … that we strive to address the public and political problems of people at the lower end of the many hierarchies that define our society."—Frances Fox Piven, president of the American Sociological Association "We must tend to our job of getting enough truth of the kind that can bear on the future, which is what is relevant to public discourse.... we should not be distracted much by contributing to public discourse, and what we do along that line is not likely to be much use to the public."—Arthur Stinchcombe, formerly John Evans Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University Zusammenfassung 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'. He argued that sociology should speak beyond the university. This book features the debate on the perils and the potentials of his challenge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments INTRODUCTORY Introduction-Robert Zussman and Joya Misra For Public Sociology-Michael Burawoy INSTITUTIONALIZING PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY 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 POLITICS AND THE PROFESSION 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 FALSE DISTINCTIONS: CONCEPTUAL RESERVATIONS The Sociologist and the Public Sphere-Immanuel Wallerstein About Public Sociology-Orlando Patterson For Humanist Sociology-Andrew Abbott INTERDISCIPLINARITY Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks! but Who Is Listening?-Evelyn Nakano Glenn A Journalist's Plea-Barbara Ehrenreich REJOINDER The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise-Michael Burawoy Editors and Contributors I...
