Public Sociology: The Contemporary Debate

ISBN-13: 9781138531253 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 340 str.

Lawrence T. Nichols

Opis

Public Sociology features a wide-ranging discussion of the controversial model of a social science that reaches out to non-academic audiences, including both average citizens and policymakers

Spis treści

1: Back to the Future: Settlement Sociology, 1885–1930; 2: “From the Platform”: Public Sociology in the Speeches of Edward A. Ross; 3: An Epistle on the Origin and Early History of the Association for Humanist Sociology; 4: Working with the Labor Movement: A Personal Journey in Organic Public Sociology; 5: Social Gerontology as Public Sociology in Action; 6: Reflections on Public Sociology: Public Relations, Disciplinary Identity, and the Strong Program in Professional Sociology 1; 7: Pitirim A. Sorokin's Integralism and Public Sociology; 8: Global Public Social Science 1; 9: The Intellectual Canons of a Public Sociology: Pragmatist Foundations, Historical Extensions, and Humanly Engaged Realities 1; 10: Guide for the Perplexed: On Michael Burawoy's “Public Sociology” 1; 11: “Is Public Sociology Such a Good Idea?”; 12: Why Sociology Does Not Need to Be Saved: Analytic Reflections on Public Sociologies*; 11: Third-Wave Sociology and the End of Pure Science

O autorze

Lawrence T. Nichols