Robert Zussman & Joya Misra 
Public Sociology [PDF ebook] 
Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century

Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTORY
Introduction—Robert Zussman and Joya Misra
For Public Sociology—Michael Burawoy
INSTITUTIONALIZING PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
Public Sociology and the End of Society—Alain Touraine
Stalled at the Altar? Conflict, Hierarchy, and Compartmentalization in Burawoy’s Public Sociology—Sharon Hays
If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things—Judith Stacey
Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name—Patricia Hill Collins
POLITICS AND THE PROFESSION
Speaking to Publics—William Julius Wilson
Do We Need a Public Sociology? It Depends on What You Mean by
Sociology—Lynn Smith-Lovin
Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power—Arthur L. Stinchcombe
The Strength of Weak Politics—Douglas S. Massey
From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist—Frances Fox Piven
FALSE DISTINCTIONS: CONCEPTUAL RESERVATIONS
The Sociologist and the Public Sphere—Immanuel Wallerstein
About Public Sociology—Orlando Patterson
For Humanist Sociology—Andrew Abbott
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks, but Who Is Listening?—Evelyn Nakano Glenn
A Journalist’s Plea—Barbara Ehrenreich
REJOINDER
The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise—Michael Burawoy
Editors and Contributors
Index

Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, and Douglas L. Anderton teach in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts. Michael Burawoy, former president of the American Sociological Association, is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.