Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

Book Review of Public Sociology in Practice

Document Type : Research

Author

Asghar Izadi-Jeiran

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2020.29744.1746
Abstract
Public Sociology in Practice is a translation of a special issue in Current Sociology, “Precarious Engagements: Combat in the Realm of Public Sociology” (2014). The content of the book is provided in three sections, consisting of contextualized experiences of different authors through the world. The aim is to apply public sociology in different communities and countries. Two achievements of the book can be stated. First, the fourfold classification by Michael Burawoy in sociology (professional, policy, critical, and public) does not remain in pure form in different local contexts. Second, in every country, on the one hand, local traditions and history are concerned with sociology discipline, and on the other hand, dominant culture and politics paved the way to success or frustration of public scholar. The book shows internal professional dynamics and external dynamics in relation to the political field.

Keywords

Sociology
Public Sociology
Michael Burawoy
Politics
Truth
People

Subjects

بوراووی، مایکل و دیگران (1394)، جامعه‌‌شناسی مردم‌‌مدار: جامعه‌‌شناسی در قرن بیست‌‌ویکم، ترجمۀ بهرنگ صدیقی و دیگران، تهران: نشر نی.
بوراووی، مایکل و دیگران (1397)، جامعه‌‌شناسی مردم‌‌مدار در کارزار عمل، ترجمۀ‌ بهرنگ صدیقی و روح‌‌الله گل‌مرادی، تهران: نشر نی.
 
Angel-Ajani, Asale and Victoria Sanford (eds.) (2006), Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy and Activism, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Bourgois, Philippe (1991), “Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons from Fieldwork in Central America”, in: Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation, Fayre Harrison (ed.), Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association.
Burawoy, Michael (2005), “For Public Sociology”, American Sociological Review, no. 70.
Current Sociology; Precarious Engagements: Combat in the Realm of Public Sociology (March 2014), vol. 62, no. 2.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1992), Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wilkinson, Ian and Arthur Kleinman (2016), A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering, Berkeley: University of California Press.

  • Receive Date 08 September 2020
  • Revise Date 01 December 2020
  • Accept Date 16 January 2021

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