home

US Public Sociology links**
 * [[file:Gans A Sociology for Public Sociology.docx]][[file:Burawoy Open Letter to Mills.pdf]][[file:Chase-Dunn Global publci social science.pdf]][[file:Bonacich working with the labor movement--a personal journey in organic public sociology.pdf]][[file:Burawoy third way sociology and the end of pure science.pdf]][[file:Simons and Masschelein The Public and Its University--beyond learning for civic employability.pdf]][[file:tfreport090105.pdf]]

Ithaca College [] American University [] Saint Louis University [] University of Illinois at Chicago [] University of Minnesota [] not a programme! Humboldt University [] I've looked at the website and the programme is at graduate level and is Public Sociology (PS) and Ecology. Looks very interesting and we might want to talk with them if we get to go to the US. But unfortunately there aren't a lot of articles that address issues PS raises. This might be a case of them avoiding the contradictions and challenges of PS so we'd need to find out. I also haven't explored yet the publicaitons of academics. University of North Carolina Wilmington [] Universith of California, Berkeley: a video of their staff and orientation: [] Producing Public Sociology: Contributions from Berkeley Sociology Faculty [] This is the introductory piece by Burawoy in 2005 about PS at Berrkeley. A lot is made of the ways that Berkeley Sociologists have ties with other centres at the University. . . it makes me think that our two person show is a rather modest proposal at present! I haven't looked at the rest of the pieces but they don't seem to be explicitly about Public Sociology as much indications of its doing without articulating explicitly with it. Here's a video on Teaching Public Sociology: [] Here's an interesting document: Berkeley's Betrayal: Wages and working conditions at Cal: [] with a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich and written by Gretchen Purser, Amy Schalit and Ofer Sharone


 * More links to US Public Sociology programs**

Missouri State University [] (From webpage: **Note on Public Sociology and Curricular Revisions:** The Sociology Program is in the process of shifting to an emphasis on Public Sociology. By the 2010-2011 academic year, these revisions should be fully incorporated into the curriculum. Please check back frequently to learn more about these exciting new changes.) See also news item towards the bottom of []. Other programmes that might not go by the name: Loyola University Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) [] Phillip Nyden is the director andhe wrote the ASA task force on Public Sociology so it might be good if we went there. They've produced a really interesting manual that our students working with community organisations might find helpful: []. They have a minor in Urban Studies (undergrad) and MA in Urban Affairs and Public Policy

Georgetown University have a Centre for Social Justice which operates at the undergraduate level. The Department chair is someone called Sam Marullo who has written an interesting article on C Wright Mills and service learning which I mention below but haven't yet gotten: []

Links to Relevant Articles --and I will get these through Birmingham University [] On the domestication of American public sociology: [] Burawoy Public Sociology in the age of Obama [] now attached Brint Guide for the Perplexed On Michael Burawoy's Public Sociology: [] (full article) Apparently this is anti-Public Sociology Sachs C Going Public Networking Globally and Locally [] The Contradicitons of PUblic Sociology: The Views from a Graduate Student at Berkeley: [] Here's an article by Sam Marullo at Georgetown University on service learning and social justice: [] the article but I will get that! Interesting reading list on academia and the public sphere: [] Here's an interesting early work on a symposium held at Boston College that Burawoy mentions: []

The 2009 hardback book The Handbook of PUblic Sociology has a very powerful piece in it by Joe Feagin et al which I've read parts of on Google books. I would highly recommend that you read it and I am hoping that we have ordered it for the library? THis is the only article that actually talks about PAR and that really lambasts Burawoy for the problematic nature of the seeming harmoney between the four supposed kinds of sociology. The critique that they provide is here: [] The talk that Feagin gave to the ASA in 2001 is on his website: [][|/] I am thinking that he is someone we should talk to, along with his colleagues. He doesn't teach at one of the top10 research universities either. The article by the graduate student isn't available from Birmingham University which is surprising. Matt, could you get it from inter library loan?

This is a link to a section of short articles in the ASA on Public Sociology. []

or, save sociology which views public sociology as an attack: [] This guy claims that PS attacks the 'pure science' at the heart of PS. Burawoy responded to this attack and others of its ilk in his piece 'Third Wave Sociology and the End of Pure Science which I hope that I've attached above! The Gans piece (mistitled, apologies) is Public Ethnography for Public Sociology and is interesting but again limited from our (sophisticated!) vantage point. He makes the point that Ed made, that most of the writing on Public Sociology has been about PS but not a reflection on the practice of doing public sociology. That is interesting and a good quote for us to use. But his notion of Public Ethnography seems limited in that: 1. He uses the pre-existent practices of ethnography which is usually ethnography 'on' not 'with' as PAR suggests and 2.His vision of Public Sociology is largely limited to the Academy. Thus the idea that we've been developing, that PS is about dialogue with grassroots organisations as a means of literally expanding the academy beyond its limits, or connecting it to those groups beyond its limits, is not even a perception. I am wondering if we will find anyone who does this--and I hope not!