ISBN:
9781409434597
,
1409434591
,
9781409434580
,
1409434583
,
9781472401915
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 329 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Public intellectuals and the sociology of knowledge
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fleck, Christian, 1954- Knowledge for whom?
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Intellectuals
;
Sociology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
;
Intellectuals
;
Sociology
;
Sociology
;
Intellectuals
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Intellektueller
;
Soziologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Soziologie
;
Intellektueller
;
Öffentlichkeit
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction: Public Sociology in the Making; Part I: Public Intellectuals and their Afterlives; 1 Biography in the Social Sciences: The Case of Marcel Mauss; 2 Making Sense of Individual Creativity; 3 Scholarly Publishing Projects in the Great Depression; 4 Psychology and Sociology in the Late 19th Century French Intellectual Field; 5 From Communicative Memory to Non-History -- Czech and Polish Narratives of Sociology's Past; Part II: Serving the Public or Serving the State?
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Research For Whom?: Changing Conceptions of Disciplinarity in the American University7 The Making of "Excellence" in the European Research Area: How Research Funding Organizations Work; 8 Using Scientific Knowledge in Policy Making: The Importance of Organizational Culture; 9 Public Sociology in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore; 10 A Chapter in the History of Brazilian Sociology; Part III: Intellectuals and Their Audiences; 11 Blurring the Boundary Line: The Origins and Fate of Robert Bellah's Symbolic Realism; 12 How Spaces of Opinion Shape Public Intellectuals
Description / Table of Contents:
13 The Role of Public Intellectual in the Role-Set of Academics14 Critics as Cultural Intermediaries; 15 World Sociology: The View from Atlantis; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to 'Intellectuals and Their Publics'. In contrast to the earlier book, which was mainly concerned with the activity of intellectuals and how it relates to the public, this volume analyses what happens when sociology and sociologists engage with or serve various publics
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