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The Past, Present and Future of Public Sociology

Carrigan, Mark ; Fatsis, Lambros

The Public and Their Platforms, 2021, p.103-126

Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press

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  • Título:
    The Past, Present and Future of Public Sociology
  • Autor: Carrigan, Mark ; Fatsis, Lambros
  • Assuntos: Sociology
  • É parte de: The Public and Their Platforms, 2021, p.103-126
  • Notas: Global Social Challenge: Society, Culture and Arts
    Global Social Challenge: Technology, Data and Society
  • Descrição: For many sociologists, public sociology and Michael Burawoy are indelibly associated, as if it were a project he initiated with his presidential address to the American Sociological Association in the early years of the 20th century. Though understandable when one figure has played such a crucial role in popularizing the term, such mental associations betray a complex history which precedes his formulation. In tracing the origins of the term ‘public sociology’, one is immediately confronted with a penumbra of problems; historical, epistemological, philosophical, ethical and political alike. Historical because there is no adequate historiography of the term, philosophical because it is an immensely difficult term to accurately pinpoint without the risk of sounding arbitrary or selective, ethical because the term’s parentage is uncertain, with Gans (1989), Seidman (1998), Agger (2007) and Burawoy (2005) all aspiring to the role of the putative father, and lastly, political because, as Becker (2003: 661) notes, ‘what things are called always reflects relations of power’, with aspirations to legitimation, recognition, influence, and authority. This concatenation of dilemmas makes it difficult to establish any authoritative definition of the term ‘public sociology’, or provide any accurate depiction of where it resides in the relevant literature and public usage. Rather than an attempt to describe ‘public sociology’ as an ineluctable fact of the discipline’s history, we approach it for these reasons as an ongoing, and often confusing intellectual debate. We are much more interested in the debates which now tend to be signposted using the terminology of public sociology than we are in the term itself.
  • Títulos relacionados: Public Sociology
  • Editor: Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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