
Index 485
positional perspectives, 453, 463. See
also four types of sociology model,
holistic sociology
Post, Stephen G., 378, 411–412
Powell, Colin, 322–323, 330
powell, john a., 345
powerlessness. 182, 392–393;
complexity of, 405
praxis, 257
praxis-oriented research, 256
professional sociology, 108–111,
227–230, 246–249, 344, 455–457;
critical sociology and, 282–285;
engaged scholarship and, 348–349;
feedback between professional
and public, 312–314; high school
teaching and, 190–192; human
rights and, 359–361; labor
conditions and processes and, 247–
249; organic public sociology and,
309; rethinking of, 59–62; teaching
and, 207–209; teaching, pathology
of, 207. See also critical sociology,
four types of sociology model,
holistic sociology, policy sociology,
public sociology
Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights, 366
Provisional Government, 32
public global altruist, 417
public sociology, 116–117, 231–236,
250–254, 270–272, 460–462;
accessibility, 153, 163–165;
accountability, 153; activism, and
308; contribution of, 103, 125–
126, 181–183; critical sociology
and, 346–347, 441; dangers and
difficulties of, 127, 171–172,
319, 333–334, 450; defined, 124;
dialogue, 154–160; enabling and
mobilizing powerless, 405; eye-
opening research and, 125–126;
four problems of, 320; future
making and, 437–442; good
and bad, criteria of, 135–136;
graduate training and, 129–132,
165–167; high school teaching
and, 194–195; human rights and,
368–370; improvement of world
and, 385, 449; integrity of civil
society, 469; journal abstracts and,
133; mobilization of powerless
and, 405; normative analysis and,
424; obligation of, 103; organic,
7–10, 183, 236, 250, 276, 293–296,
296–297, 302–312, 376–377, 460,
467; other disciplines and, 132–
133; policy sociology and, 62–65,
291–296, 347–348; presenting
data and, 285–289; professional
sociology and, 270, 275–276, 281,
285–289, 310–311; project of, 391;
public activity and agency and,
182; purpose of, 124; reactions to,
47–48, 450, 454–462; relevance
and, 125, 154, 160–163, 171–173;
remapping global transformations,
405; requirements of, 124; social
futurity, 430; Sorokin exemplar of,
107–108; teaching and, 212–213
216–217; teaching pathology, of,
213; topic-driven research and,
126–127, 132; traditional, 467; two-
way process, as, 272; usefulness of,
125. See also critical sociology, four
types of sociology model, holistic
sociology, professional sociology,
policy sociology, sociological
practice
publics, 90, 102, 117, 125–126, 164,
166–167, 173–179, 182–183, 187,
201, 219, 233–236, 253–254, 308,
315, 321, 341–342, 369–370, 376–
377, 385, 391; African Americans as,
369; definition of, 38; disseminating
knowledge to, 385; intellectuals
views of, 174–179; power to
interpret, 326–327; presenting
data to, 285–289; scholar-activist
relationship, and 352–353; state as,
330–331; techniques of engaging,
289–291; uncertainty of response,