Research handbook on public sociology / edited by Lavinia Bifulco (Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca) and Vando Borghi (Professor of Economic Sociology and Sociology of Work and Organizations, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bifulco, Lavinia, editor.

Borghi, Vando, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in sociology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Methodology.

Sociology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Public sociology: Exploring an approach; an Introduction

1. Public sociology, a perspective on the move / Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi

2. Why public sociology? / 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 / Daniel Cefai

4. Public sociology and the capability approach: Exploring the potential of a fruitful combination / Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa

5. Sociology and quantification: Economics of convention as an approach to link quantification and public sociology / 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? / Didier Fassin

7. Public history / Serge Noiret

8. Public geography / Salvo Torre

9. Urban planning / Marco Cremaschi

10. Legitimacy of law and the expertise of public sociology / Supriya Routh

11. The foundational economy approach: A public social science of socio-economic life / 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 / Luigi Pellizzoni

13. Public sociology in disaster situations: Critical engagement and prefiguration against defuturing processes / Laura Centemeri and Davide Olori

14. Public sociology and populism / Paul Blokker

15. Borders and migrants in Europe / Tatjana Sekulic

16. Local/urban democracy and citizenship / Marisol Garcia

17. Associationalism: The past, present, and future of public sociology / Bruno Frere

18. Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of social policy and poverty research / Sandro Busso

19. Critical sociologies of work in the cultural industries: Pathways to 'creative justice'? / Mark Banks

20. Sociologies of education in an era of new critique: Getting out of methodological nationalism and reconsidering education through a global perspective / Romuald Normand

21. Sociology of expertise as public sociology / Gil Eyal

22. Poverty, the battle against stigmatization and the role of public sociology / Enrica Morlicchio and Dario Tuorto

23. Health / 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 / Eeva Berglund

25. Publicness and teaching: Public knowledge as collective process of repoliticization of daily life / Vincenza Pellegrino

26. Postcolonialism and sociology / Manuela Boatca, Sina Farzin and Julian Go

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800377387 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.