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Barbara Adam

Wendell Bell

Michael Burawoy

Stephen Cornell

Michael DeCesare

Sean Elias

Joe Feagin

Frank Furedi

Herbert J. Gans

Norval D. Glenn

John Hagan

Ruth Horowitz

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Lina Hu

Vincent Jeffries

Robert Kleidman

Elizabeth Dermody Leonard

Damon Mayrl

Bill McCarthy

Raymond A. Morrow

Jennifer Mueller

Lawrence T. Nichols

Samuel P. Oliner

Pamela E. Oliver

Caroline Hodges Persell

Saskia Sassen

Edward A. Tiryakian

Laurel Westbrook

Handbook of

Public Sociology

Vincent Jeffries

JEFFRIES

ROWMAN &

LITTLFIELD

Sociology | Theory

“The publication of

The Handbook of Public Sociology is timely and important.While

it reveals the tensions and disputes about public sociology within the discipline of

sociology, it also makes clear its potential to educate the public on many crucial

social problems and issues confronting our society.This volume is a must-read for

those who believe that sociology’s findings, theories, and ideas should be more

widely disseminated.” —

William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser

University Professor, Harvard University

Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and

actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed top-

ics in the discipline in recent years.The

Handbook of Public Sociology presents a com-

prehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays

particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional

types of sociological practice to advance both the analytical power of the discipline

and its ability to benefit society. The volume features contributions from a stellar

list of authors, including several past presidents of the American Sociological

Association such as Michael Burawoy, a leading proponent of public sociology.

The first two sections of the

Handbook of Public Sociology look at public sociology

in relation to the other three types of practice—professional, policy, and critical—

with an emphasis on integrating the four types into a holistic model of theory and

practice. Subsequent sections focus on issues such as teaching public sociology at

various levels, case studies in the application of public sociology, and the role of

public sociology in special fields in the discipline, while continuing to emphasize

interdependence of the four types of sociology.The concluding chapter by Michael

Burawoy addresses current debates surrounding public sociology and presents a

constructive vision for the future that embraces and improves upon all four types

of sociology.

The

Handbook of Public Sociology transcends differences in the field and will appeal

to a wide range of academics, students, and practitioners.

Vincent Jeffries is professor of sociology at California State University,

Northridge.

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Handbook of

Public Sociology

Handbook of

Public Sociology

Edited by

Vincent Jeffries

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.

Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK

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Handbook of public sociology / edited by Vincent Jeffries.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7425-6646-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-7425-6648-4

(electronic)

1. Sociology—Philosophy. 2. Applied sociology. I. Jeffries, Vincent.

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1 Redefining the Nature and Future of Sociology:

Toward a Holistic Sociology 1

Vincent Jeffries

Part I: Exploring and Elaborating the Holistic Model

2 Burawoy’s Holistic Sociology and Sorokin’s “Integralism”:

A Conversation of Ideas 27

Lawrence T. Nichols

3 Rethinking Burawoy’s Public Sociology:

A Post-Empiricist Reconstruction 47

Raymond A. Morrow

4 Social Justice and Critical Public Sociology 71

Joe Feagin, Sean Elias, and Jennifer Mueller

5 Public Sociology and the Future: The Possible, the Probable,

and the Preferable 89

Wendell Bell

6 The Scientific System of Public Sociology: The Exemplar of

Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Social Thought 107

Vincent Jeffries

Contents

Part II: Establishing and Perfecting the Model

7 A Sociology for Public Sociology: Some Needed Disciplinary

Changes for Creating Public Sociology 123

Herbert J. Gans

8 Some Suggested Standards for Distinguishing between

Good and Bad Public Sociology 135

Norval D. Glenn

9 On Writing Public Sociology: Accountability through

Accessibility, Dialogue, and Relevance 151

Damon Mayrl and Laurel Westbrook

10 Recapturing the Sociological Imagination: The Challenge for

Public Sociology 171

Frank Furedi

Part III: Teaching and Public Sociology

11 Presenting Sociology’s Four “Faces”: Problems and Prospects

for the High School Course 187

Michael DeCesare

12 Teaching and Public Sociology 205

Caroline Hodges Persell

Part IV: The Practice of Organic Public Sociology: Case Studies

13 From Data to Drama: Returning Research to

Convicted Survivors 225

Elizabeth Dermody Leonard

14 Integrating the Four Sociologies: The “Baigou Project”

in China 245

Lina Hu

15 Becoming Public Sociology: Indigenous Nations, Dialogue,

and Change 263

Stephen Cornell

16 Talking about Racial Disparities in Imprisonment:

A Reflection on Experiences in Wisconsin 281

Pamela E. Oliver

17 Public Membership on Medical Licensing Boards:

An Integrated Public and Professional Project 299

Ruth Horowitz

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18 Counting the Deaths in Darfur: Pitfalls on the Pathway to

a Public Sociology 319

Bill McCarthy and John Hagan

Part V: Special Fields and Public Sociology

19 Engaged Social Movement Scholarship 341

Robert Kleidman

20 Public Sociology and Universal Human Rights 357

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

21 Altruism, Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation as

Public Sociology 375

Samuel P. Oliner

22 A Public Sociology for a Global Age: Recovering the Political 391

Saskia Sassen

23 Global Altruism: Some Considerations 409

Edward A. Tiryakian

24 Futures in the Making: Sociological Practice and Challenge 429

Barbara Adam

Part VI: Future Directions

25 The Public Sociology Wars 449

Michael Burawoy

Index 475

About the Contributors 491

Contents vii

In his 2004 presidential address to the American Sociological Association,

Michael Burawoy (2005a) issued a call to sociologists for commitment to

a common ethos, reciprocity among forms of practice, and greater societal

engagement. Unique to this message is a model of the discipline that has

the potential to change sociology in a manner that will greatly increase both

its fund of knowledge and understanding and its contribution to society.

In this call for greater accomplishment Burawoy “has actually proposed a

new vision for our discipline” and thus “has made an attempt to imagine

the future” (Abbott 2007:208).

The major theme of this Handbook of Public Sociology is the nature and im-

portance of Burawoy’s holistic model of sociological practice: professional,

the theoretical traditions and research programs; critical, the interrogation

of the good and of disciplinary moral visions; policy, the evaluation of

means to reach a designated end; and public, a dialogue between soci-

ologists and publics regarding sociological knowledge and understandings

(Burawoy 2005a).

The foundation of the model’s potential is the assumption of the in-

terdependence of these forms of sociology. This is a fundamental focus

of this handbook and is concisely and powerfully expressed by Burawoy

(2005a:15) in his presidential address: “Indeed, my normative vision of

the discipline of sociology is of reciprocal interdependence among our four

types—an organic solidarity in which each type of sociology derives energy,

meaning, and imagination from its connection to the others.”

Emphasis can be placed on the four sociologies model, rather than just

on the idea of public sociology. The most fundamental contribution to the

discipline is the model. The idea of an interdependence of the forms of

Redefining the Nature

and Future of Sociology:

Toward a Holistic Sociology

Vincent Jeffries