Why public sociology?

Michael Burawoy

Chapter 2 in Research Handbook on Public Sociology, 2023, pp 19-21 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: As we plunder nature for profit, so we not only jeopardize long term planetary existence, but displace enormous populations, dispossessing them of access to their means of existence, and thereby creating enormous reservoirs of labor. Sociology cannot insulate itself within the academy watching its support dwindle, but must advance into the public sphere and there excite debate about the direction of society, educate citizenry about the dangers of market commodification and political rationalization. As sociologists we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation: the world’s problems require a sociological imagination for their solution but that imagination is losing ground as an academic discipline and as public knowledge. The struggle for public sociology is both an expression and an answer to this paradox

Keywords: Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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