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Knowledge for Whom?

Public Sociology in the Making

Knowledge for Whom?

Public Sociology in the Making

ByChristian Fleck
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315591162
Pages 340 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315591162
SubjectsHumanities, Social Sciences
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Hess, A. (Ed.), Fleck, C. (2014). Knowledge for Whom?. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315591162

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. More specifically, this problem will be studied from the following three angles: How does one become a public sociologist and prominent intellectual in the first place? (Part I) How complex and complicated are the stories of institutions and professional associations when they take on a public role or tackle a major social or political problem? (Part II) How can one investigate the relationship between individual sociologists and intellectuals and their various publics? (Part III) This book will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of the sociology of knowledge and ideas, the history of social sciences, intellectual history, cultural sociology, and cultural studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Introduction: Public Sociology in the Making
ByChristian Fleck, Andreas Hess
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part I|89 pages
Public Intellectuals and their Afterlives: Biographies, Reputation-Building and Academic Disciplines
chapter 1|8 pages
Biography in the Social Sciences: The Case of Marcel Mauss
ByMarcel Fournier
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chapter 2|20 pages
Making Sense of Individual Creativity: An Attempt to Trespass the Academic Boundaries of the Sociology of Ideas and Intellectual History
ByAndreas Hess
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chapter 3|20 pages
Scholarly Publishing Projects in the Great Depression: The Works of G.H. Mead and the Payne Fund Studies
ByDaniel R. Huebner
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chapter 4|22 pages
Psychology and Sociology in the Late 19th Century French Intellectual Field: The Case of the Revue Internationale de Sociologie
ByMarcia Cristina Consolim
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chapter 5|17 pages
From Communicative Memory to Non-History – Czech and Polish Narratives of Sociology’s Past
ByJarosław Kilias
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part II|95 pages
Serving the Public or Serving the State?: Trials and Tribulations of Organizational and State-related Histories
chapter 6|18 pages
Research For Whom?: Changing Conceptions of Disciplinarity in the American University
ByDaniel Gordon
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chapter 7|20 pages
The Making of “Excellence” in the European Research Area: How Research Funding Organizations Work
ByBarbara Hoenig
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chapter 8|16 pages
Using Scientific Knowledge in Policy Making: The Importance of Organizational Culture
BySally Shortall
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chapter 9|22 pages
Public Sociology in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
ByAlbert Tzeng
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chapter 10|17 pages
A Chapter in the History of Brazilian Sociology: UNESCO Research about Race Relations and the Unexpected Prejudice against Poles in Curitiba (Paraná)
ByMárcio de Oliveira
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part III|113 pages
Intellectuals and Their Audiences
chapter 11|23 pages
Blurring the Boundary Line: The Origins and Fate of Robert Bellah’s Symbolic Realism
ByMatteo Bortolini
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chapter 12|19 pages
How Spaces of Opinion Shape Public Intellectuals: A Field-based Approach to Project Syndicate-Op-Eds
ByPhilipp Korom
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chapter 13|22 pages
The Role of Public Intellectual in the Role-Set of Academics
ByRagnvald Kalleberg
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chapter 14|23 pages
Critics as Cultural Intermediaries
ByThomas Crosbie, Jonathan Roberge
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chapter 15|17 pages
World Sociology: The View from Atlantis
ByAndrew Abbott
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