The Trouble with Burawoy: An Analytic, Synthetic Alternative  

Oleh:

McLaughlin, Neil ; Turcotte, Kerry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociology vol. 41 no. 05 (Oct. 2007), page 813–828.
Topik: academic disciplines; Burawoy; comparative sociology; public intellectuals; public sociology; sociology of knowledge
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As American Sociological Association (ASA) president in 2004, Michael Burawoy argued ‘for public sociology’, sparking impassioned debate focused almost exclusively on the normative issues raised by his prescription for a more public sociology. Nearly absent from the literature is an analytical critique of his underlying model of the structure of sociological practice.The model is flawed in three ways: (1) the core concepts are ambiguous; (2) the model provides little leverage for understanding the institutional context of sociology as a discipline; and (3) comparative understanding of sociologies in different countries or between public engagement in distinct academic disciplines is not facilitated. In this article, we propose a synthetic means of relating academics, disciplines, audiences and institutional environments that forms the basis for movement toward an empirical agenda on public academics more generally.

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