Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of welfare and poverty research

Sandro Busso

Chapter 18 in Research Handbook on Public Sociology, 2023, pp 250-263 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The essay focuses on the sociology of social policies, and in particular on the field of poverty research, highlighting some of the biases and trade-offs related to the development of a public sociology in this area. The main argument is that the four souls of sociology have become progressively more distant and that the interactions between them are today more problematics than they used to be, as a consequence of the problems in the selection of the publics and of the proximity with the policy system. This latter element in particular determines a narrowing of the discursive spaces that affects the development of a public sociology of social policies, which would instead require a strong effort towards re-politicization and a renewal on the debate about partisanship in order to overcome existing hierarchies of actors and goals, and to pave the road for “unthinkable politics”.

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