Public sociology : from social facts to literary acts
This text looks at sociology as a social act in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. It describes how social science reproduces the existing social world, and shows how it could be crafted differently.
Print Book, English, ©2000
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2000
xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780847698400, 9780847698417, 0847698408, 0847698416
42680512
Sociology s secret writing - lessons from post-modernism; learning discipline discursively; beginning science; method as the main text; concluding science; was sociology always like this? maybe the reviewer is just dense - review and revision as argument; sociology writing in the wake of post-modernism. Appendix: full citation of the 56 articles in the sample.