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Research Handbook on Public Sociology
Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world.
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Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world.
This incisive Research Handbook explores the critical authors, texts, and research perspectives foundational to the discipline of public sociology. Multidisciplinary in approach, it advances dialogues between diverse scientific and environmental perspectives and considers how best to design and conduct research in different scientific fields. Chapters discuss current teaching and critical thought within the discipline, identify promising analytical approaches through which to research key aspects of social transformation, and investigate the relationship between sociology and its various publics. Rather than reproducing an already-fixed analytical programme, the Research Handbook explores the potential of public sociology to collaborate and hybridise with novel research paths.
Pushing the frontiers of public sociology, this insightful Research Handbook will prove an engaging and invaluable resource for social scientists and sociological communities, as well as for students in the social sciences. Its exploration of the applications of public sociology in empirical research and teaching will further benefit professionals working within public organisations.
This incisive Research Handbook explores the critical authors, texts, and research perspectives foundational to the discipline of public sociology. Multidisciplinary in approach, it advances dialogues between diverse scientific and environmental perspectives and considers how best to design and conduct research in different scientific fields. Chapters discuss current teaching and critical thought within the discipline, identify promising analytical approaches through which to research key aspects of social transformation, and investigate the relationship between sociology and its various publics. Rather than reproducing an already-fixed analytical programme, the Research Handbook explores the potential of public sociology to collaborate and hybridise with novel research paths.
Pushing the frontiers of public sociology, this insightful Research Handbook will prove an engaging and invaluable resource for social scientists and sociological communities, as well as for students in the social sciences. Its exploration of the applications of public sociology in empirical research and teaching will further benefit professionals working within public organisations.
Critical Acclaim
‘Public sociology has engaged scholars in different corners of the world to think further and develop a sociology of possibility, oriented to the improvement of citizens’ lives. This Research Handbook is an excellent account of how sociologists can approach possibility from very diverse and controversial angles. A must read.’
– Marta Soler Gallart, University of Barcelona, Spain
– Marta Soler Gallart, University of Barcelona, Spain
Contributors
Contributors: Mark Banks, Eva Berglund, Lavinia Bifulco, Paul Blokker, Manuela Boatcă, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Vando Borghi, Michael Burawoy, Sandro Busso, Daniel Cefaï, Laura Centemeri, Jenny Chan, Magdalena Chiara, Marco Cremaschi, Rainer Diaz-Bone, Gyl Eyal, Sina Farzin, Didier Fassin, Julie Froud, Marisol Garcia, Julian Go, Francesco Laruffa, Enrica Morlicchio, Pun Ngai, Serge Noiret, Romuald Normand, Davide Olori, Vincenza Pellegrino, Luigi Pellizzoni, Supriya Routh, Angelo Salento, Tatjana Sekulić, Mark Selden, Salvo Torre, Dario Tuorto, Shen Yuan, Guo Yuhua, Karel Williams
Contents
Contents:
PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: EXPLORING AN APPROACH ‒ AN INTRODUCTION
1 Public sociology, a perspective on the move 2
Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi
2 Why public sociology? 19
Michael Burawoy
PART I CONNECTIONS AND CONVERSATIONS: AUTHORS AND
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DIALOGUE WITH PUBLIC
SOCIOLOGY
3 Public inquiry in social sciences: a pragmatist outlook 23
Daniel Céfaï
4 Public sociology and the capability approach: exploring the potential of
a fruitful combination 42
Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa
5 Sociology and quantification: economics of convention as an approach
to link quantification and public sociology 58
Rainer Diaz-Bone
PART II FORTH AND BACK ACROSS (DISCIPLINARY) BORDERS:
WAYS OF THINKING AND PRACTICING PUBLIC RESEARCH
6 What is at stake when social science goes public? 74
Didier Fassin
7 Public history 86
Serge Noiret
8 Public geography 104
Salvo Torre
9 Urban planning 114
Marco Cremaschi
10 Legitimacy of law and the expertise of public sociology 129
Supriya Routh
11 The foundational economy approach: a public social science of
socio-economic life 142
Julie Froud, Angelo Salento and Karel Williams
PART III THEMES AND RESEARCH ISSUES: DEEPENING PS
POTENTIALITIES DEALING WITH DIFFERENT FIELDS
12 Science, the environment and the public 158
Luigi Pellizzoni
13 Public sociology in disaster situations: critical engagement and
prefiguration against defuturing processes 174
Laura Centemeri and Davide Olori
14 Public sociology and populism 188
Paul Blokker
15 Borders and migrants in Europe 202
Tatjana Sekulić
16 Local/urban democracy and citizenship 218
Marisol Garcia
17 Associationalism: the past, present, and future of public sociology 234
Bruno Frère
18 Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of social
policy and poverty research 250
Sandro Busso
19 Critical sociologies of work in the cultural industries: pathways to
‘creative justice’? 265
Mark Banks
20 Sociologies of education in an era of new critique: getting out of
methodological nationalism and reconsidering education through
a global perspective 280
Romuald Normand
21 Sociology of expertise as public sociology 295
Gil Eyal
22 Poverty, the battle against stigmatization and the role of public sociology 311
Enrica Morlicchio and Dario Tuorto
23 Health 324
Magdalena Chiara
PART IV FOR A PUBLIC ACADEMIA: PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AND
PUBLIC ACADEMIES
24 Paradoxes, contradictions, and deep feelings of ambivalence, or,
academia still appeals 337
Eeva Berglund
25 Publicness and teaching: public knowledge as collective process of
repoliticization of daily life 351
Vincenza Pellegrino
26 Postcolonialism and sociology 368
Manuela Boatcă, Sina Farzin and Julian Go
Index
PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: EXPLORING AN APPROACH ‒ AN INTRODUCTION
1 Public sociology, a perspective on the move 2
Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi
2 Why public sociology? 19
Michael Burawoy
PART I CONNECTIONS AND CONVERSATIONS: AUTHORS AND
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DIALOGUE WITH PUBLIC
SOCIOLOGY
3 Public inquiry in social sciences: a pragmatist outlook 23
Daniel Céfaï
4 Public sociology and the capability approach: exploring the potential of
a fruitful combination 42
Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa
5 Sociology and quantification: economics of convention as an approach
to link quantification and public sociology 58
Rainer Diaz-Bone
PART II FORTH AND BACK ACROSS (DISCIPLINARY) BORDERS:
WAYS OF THINKING AND PRACTICING PUBLIC RESEARCH
6 What is at stake when social science goes public? 74
Didier Fassin
7 Public history 86
Serge Noiret
8 Public geography 104
Salvo Torre
9 Urban planning 114
Marco Cremaschi
10 Legitimacy of law and the expertise of public sociology 129
Supriya Routh
11 The foundational economy approach: a public social science of
socio-economic life 142
Julie Froud, Angelo Salento and Karel Williams
PART III THEMES AND RESEARCH ISSUES: DEEPENING PS
POTENTIALITIES DEALING WITH DIFFERENT FIELDS
12 Science, the environment and the public 158
Luigi Pellizzoni
13 Public sociology in disaster situations: critical engagement and
prefiguration against defuturing processes 174
Laura Centemeri and Davide Olori
14 Public sociology and populism 188
Paul Blokker
15 Borders and migrants in Europe 202
Tatjana Sekulić
16 Local/urban democracy and citizenship 218
Marisol Garcia
17 Associationalism: the past, present, and future of public sociology 234
Bruno Frère
18 Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of social
policy and poverty research 250
Sandro Busso
19 Critical sociologies of work in the cultural industries: pathways to
‘creative justice’? 265
Mark Banks
20 Sociologies of education in an era of new critique: getting out of
methodological nationalism and reconsidering education through
a global perspective 280
Romuald Normand
21 Sociology of expertise as public sociology 295
Gil Eyal
22 Poverty, the battle against stigmatization and the role of public sociology 311
Enrica Morlicchio and Dario Tuorto
23 Health 324
Magdalena Chiara
PART IV FOR A PUBLIC ACADEMIA: PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AND
PUBLIC ACADEMIES
24 Paradoxes, contradictions, and deep feelings of ambivalence, or,
academia still appeals 337
Eeva Berglund
25 Publicness and teaching: public knowledge as collective process of
repoliticization of daily life 351
Vincenza Pellegrino
26 Postcolonialism and sociology 368
Manuela Boatcă, Sina Farzin and Julian Go
Index
