How not to become a museum piece
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2010v15n2p16Keywords:
Michael Burawoy, Public sociology, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Social inequalitiesAbstract
In this essay I want to address two question marks which arose during my reading of Michael Burawoy’s inspiring piece. First, sharing his spirit of recreating the sociological enlightenment by differentiating between different types of public sociologies, I do not share his optimism that sociology can easily become an integral part of public discourse and practice. Second, I don’t think that mainstream sociology is really prepared for this adventure. My argument points in the opposite direction: all the different forms of public and non-public sociology are in danger of becoming museum pieces. Thus, sociology not only needs a public voice, it also needs to be reinvented first – in order to have a public voice at all.References
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BURAWOY, Michael. For public sociology. The British Journal of Sociology, v. 56, n. 2, p. 259–94, 2005.
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SHOSTAK, Arthur B. Putting sociology to work. New York: MacKay, 1974.
WEISS, Carol (org.). Using social research for public policy making. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1977.
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2010-12-01
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BECK, Ulrich. How not to become a museum piece. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 15, n. 2, p. 16–27, 2010. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2010v15n2p16. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/8213. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.
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