Knowledge for Whom?: Public Sociology in the Making

Dr Andreas Hess · Professor Christian Fleck · Dr Neil McLaughlin

Feb 2014 · Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

About this eBook

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.

About the author

Christian Fleck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Graz in Austria. Andreas Hess is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin in Ireland.

Christian Fleck, Andreas Hess, Marcel Fournier, Daniel R. HuebnerMarcia Cristina Consolim, Jaroslaw Kilias, Daniel Gordon, Barbara Hoenig, Sally Shortall, Albert Tzeng, Márcio de Oliveira, Matteo Bortolini, Philipp Korom, Ragnvald Kalleberg, Thomas Crosbie, Jonathan Roberge, Andrew Abbott.