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A Public Sociology of Waste

, 2022
Critically analysing how waste is currently configured as a ‘household’ issue, this book illuminates the implications of these framings and how public sociology can engage critical publics to reorient waste as a global socio-ethical issue.
M. Hird
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Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology

, 2021
Erich Fromm’s contribution to public sociology around the world has largely been forgotten as Burawoy highlighted C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, WEB Du Bois and Jane Adams as canonical figures.
N. Mclaughlin
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Augustus Granville Dill: A Case Study in the Conceptualization of a Black Public Sociology

, 2020
Black sociology developed as a response to mainstream, white sociology’s failures to address the condition of Black people in the Unites States. Central to the practice of Black sociology is that it necessitates sociological work be used, where possible,
Marcus A. Brooks, Earl Wright
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Public Sociology of Sport and Digital Media: A Self-Reflexive Analysis of Public Engagement in the “Hockey Blogosphere”

Sociology of Sport Journal, 2019
In the past 15 years, sport scholars have expressed an increased interest in public sociology, while the rapid acceleration of digital media has led to significant shifts in the sport media landsca...
Mark Norman, K. Esmonde, Courtney Szto
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Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline

Social problems
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline.
R. London   +4 more
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Public Sociologies Reader

2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators.
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Creating Sociological Awareness: Public and Applied Sociology

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2008
Introduction The following review essay focuses on three books that demonstrate how the complexity of socio-cultural issues can be broken down into specific patterns of behavior and symbols that define and give meaning to human activ ity, attitudes, social structures, and gender identity. Each employs variations of applied sociological research methods
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Public Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Revisiting Burawoy's Sociology Types

Humanity & Society, 2008
Reflecting on Michael Burawoy's classification of sociology into professional, critical, policy, and public types, and the adoption of the latter as the theme of the ASA's 99th Annual Meeting, in this paper I argue that the drive toward public sociologies of new global realities may prove hazardous in the absence of a parallel emphasis on the ...
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Public Ethnography; Ethnography as Public Sociology

Qualitative Sociology, 2009
Since ethnography is arguably the kind of sociology of most appeal to the lay public, public ethnography, particularly participant observation research, should be a major form of public sociology. Public ethnography differs from academic ethnography when its sites and subjects are relevant to what the lay public wants and needs to know, and when it is ...
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