Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTORY
5. Introduction 3
6. For Public Sociology 23
7. INSTITUTIONALIZING PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
8. Public Sociology and the End of Society 67
9. Stalled at the Altar? 79
10. If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things 91
11. Going Public 101
12. POLITICS AND THE PROFESSION
13. Speaking to Publics 117
14. Do We Need a Public Sociology? 124
15. Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power 135
16. The Strength of Weak Politics 145
17. From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist 158
18. FALSE DISTINCTIONS
19. The Sociologist and the Public Sphere 169
20. About Public Sociology 176
21. For Humanist Sociology 195
22. INTERDISCIPLINARITY
23. Whose Public Sociology? 213
24. A Journalist’s Plea 231
25. REJOINDER
26. The Field of Sociology 241
27. Editors and Contributors 259
28. Index 263