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Journal articles on the topic "Public sociology"

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Burawoy, Michael. "For Public Sociology." American Sociological Review 70, no. 1 (2005): 4–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000312240507000102.

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Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public sociologies should not be left out in the cold, but brought into the framework of our discipline. In this way we make public sociology a visible and legitimate enterprise, and, thereby, invigorate the discipline as a whole. Accordingly, if we map out the division of sociological labor, we discover antagonistic interdependence among four types of knowledge: professional, critical, policy, and public. In the best of all worlds the flourishing of each type of sociology is a condition for the flourishing of all, but they can just as easily assume pathological forms or become victims of exclusion and subordination. This field of power beckons us to explore the relations among the four types of sociology as they vary historically and nationally, and as they provide the template for divergent individual careers. Finally, comparing disciplines points to the umbilical chord that connects sociology to the world of publics, underlining sociology's particular investment in the defense of civil society, itself beleaguered by the encroachment of markets and states.
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Gans, Herbert J. "Public Sociology and its Publics." American Sociologist 47, no. 1 (2015): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12108-015-9278-5.

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House, James S. "The Culminating Crisis of American Sociology and Its Role in Social Science and Public Policy: An Autobiographical, Multimethod, Reflexive Perspective." Annual Review of Sociology 45, no. 1 (2019): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041052.

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For over 50 years I have been, and remain, an interdisciplinary social scientist seeking to develop and apply social science to improve the well-being of human individuals and social life. Sociology has been my disciplinary home for 48 of these years. As a researcher/scholar, teacher, administrator, and member of review panels in both sociology and interdisciplinary organizations that include and/or intersect with sociology, I have sought to improve the quality and quantity of sociolog ists and sociolog y. This article offers my assessment as a participant observer of what (largely American) sociology has been over the course of my lifetime, which is virtually coterminous with the history of modern (post–World War II) sociology, and what it might become. I supplement my participant observations with those of others with similarly broad perspectives, and with broader literature and quantitative indicators on the state of sociology, social science, and society over this period. I entered sociology and social science at a time (the 1960s and early 1970s) when they were arguably their most dynamic and impactful, both within themselves and also with respect to intersections with other disciplines and the larger society. Whereas the third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age of growth and development for sociology and the social sciences, the last quarter of that century saw sociology and much of social science—excepting economics and, to some extent, psychology—decline in size, coherence, and extradisciplinary connections and impact, not returning until the beginning of the twenty-first century, if at all, to levels reached in the early 1970s. Over this latter period, I and numerous other observers have bemoaned sociology's lack of intellectual unity (i.e., coherence and cohesion), along with attendant dissension and problems within the discipline and in its relation to the other social sciences and public policy. The twenty-first century has seen much of the discipline, and its American Sociological Association (ASA), turn toward public and critical sociology, yet this shift has come with no clear indicators of improvement of the state of the discipline and some suggestions of further decline. The reasons for and implications of all of this are complex, reflecting changes within the discipline and in its academic, scientific, and societal environments. This article can only offer initial thoughts and directions for future discussion, research, and action. I do, however, believe that sociology's problems are serious, arguably a crisis, and have been going on for almost a half-century, at the outset of which the future looked much brighter. It is unclear whether the discipline as now constituted can effectively confront, much less resolve, these problems. Sociolog ists continue to do excellent work, arguably in spite of rather than because of their location within the current discipline of sociolog y. They might realize the brighter future that appeared in the offing as of the early 1970s for sociology and its impact on other disciplines and society if they assumed new organizational and/or disciplinary forms, as has been increasingly occurring in other social sciences, the natural sciences, and even the humanities. Society needs more and better sociology. The question is how can we deliver it.
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Mochnacki, Alex, Aaron Segaert, and Neil Mclaughlin. "Public Sociology in Print: A Comparative Analysis of Book Publishing in Three Social Science Disciplines." Canadian Journal of Sociology 34, no. 3 (2009): 729–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjs6706.

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Much discussion surrounding Burawoy’s (2004) argument for public sociology has focused on concerns about the model’s normative and political implications while failing to empirically analyze current practices of public academic work. The debate thus risks devolving into competing rhetorical claims about what public sociology should be. We offer a preliminary comparative analysis of one type of public academic work — the writing of books — by sociologists, political scientists, and economists in Canada. In the hope of encouraging more empirical research on the current status of public academic work in Canada, books are put into one of six categories determined on the basis of 1) the publisher’s characteristics; 2) the book’s intended audience; and 3) the book’s intended intellectual/political purpose. We find that sociology lags behind political science in producing books intended for a public audience; however, other evidence suggests Canadian sociologists are attempting to open a public dialogue in a more “organic” way through small presses. Questions are raised about the status and rewards structure of professional sociology in Canada and how it influences public academic work.
 
 Les discussions à propos des arguments de Burawoy sur la sociologie publique se concentrent principalement autour des implications normative et politique du modèle. Mais ces discussions omettent de tester empiriquement les travaux académiques publics contemporains. Il existe donc un risque que le débat s’égare en discussions rhétoriques autour de ce que la sociologie publique devrait être. Nous proposons une analyse préliminaire d’un type de travail académique public, soit la production de livres par des sociologues, politologues et économistes au Canada. Dans l’espoir d’inciter les recherches empiriques sur le statut actuel des travaux académiques publics au Canada, nous avons classé les ouvrages en six catégories sur les bases suivantes 1) les caractéristiques institutionnelles de l’éditeur, 2) le public visé par les livres, 3) l’usage intellectuel et politique attendu pour le livre. Les résultats de nos recherches montrent que la sociologie accuse un retard face à la science politique quant à la production de livres commerciaux grand public. Cependant, d’autres preuves suggèrent que les sociologues canadiens tentent d’ouvrir un dialogue public d’une manière plus « organique » au travers de la publication chez de petits éditeurs. Nous nous posons des questions quant au statut et à la structure de valorisation professionnelle de la sociologie au Canada et à leur influence sur les travaux académiques publics.
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Burawoy, Michael. "For Public Sociology." Soziale Welt 56, no. 4 (2005): 347–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0038-6073-2005-4-347.

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Land, Kenneth C. "Whither Public Sociology?" Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 37, no. 6 (2008): 507–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610803700602.

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Ruggiero, Vincenzo. "How public is public criminology?" Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 8, no. 2 (2012): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659012444432.

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A variety of opinions and observations about public sociology are reviewed in this paper, which then examines how criminology (as a branch of sociology) has reacted to the call to ‘go public’. Dilemmas, potential strengths and manifest weaknesses are brought to light. These, it will be argued, are mostly due to the peculiar disciplinary position of criminology, an area of enquiry which, by claiming improbable independence from sociology, is forced to neglect those very sociological concepts that would indeed make it more ‘public’.
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Mooney Nickel, Patricia. "Public Administration and/or Public Sociology." Administration & Society 41, no. 2 (2009): 185–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399708330255.

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Gans, Herbert J. "Public Ethnography; Ethnography as Public Sociology." Qualitative Sociology 33, no. 1 (2009): 97–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-009-9145-1.

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Moini, Giulio. "Sociologia politica. Quale ruolo pubblico?" SocietàMutamentoPolitica 13, no. 25 (2023): 223–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/smp-14263.

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The SARS-COV2 pandemic has emerged as a total social fact. It has overflown the public and politico-institutional spheres with doubts about the way society was answering to its needs before the crisis, and it has introduced new problems and needs, together with novel languages and practices to address them. What role has political sociology in this phase of radical change? The article argues that political sociology should not and cannot remain aphasic in this time, and that a reflection should start about the public role of political sociology. The first Section describes political sociology’s “duty” to intervene in public life. The second one offers an analytical key to read the impact of the pandemic on contemporary public policy. The last Section identifies a preliminary theoretical framework for defining the public role of political sociology and understanding its specific positioning in public life.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Public sociology"

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Watson, Ashleigh. "Engaging Public Sociology, Fiction and the Sociological Imagination." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381012.

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This thesis explores public sociology, fiction writing and sociological imagination, and presents a sociological fiction novel titled Into the Sea. Building from what Mills (1959) calls the promise and cultural meaning of sociology, I address how and why we might engage people in sociological imagination through fiction. I approach this imagination as a lively activity in a creative (Beer, 2014: 12) and arty way (Back, 2012) that builds on contemporary approaches to public sociology (Burawoy, 2005). Bringing together methods of autoethnography, literature analysis and arts-based research fiction writing, using an innovative methodological approach that I term the methods braiding technique, I explore how sociological fiction may contribute to the task of ‘assist[ing] the influence of the sociological imagination in society’ (Furedi, 2009: 17). This involves a consideration of creative adaptations of the craft of sociology (Mills, 1959), as well as broader challenges including the ‘deeply antisociological’ ethos and governance regime of neoliberalism (Burawoy, 2005: 7) which public sociology struggles against. Into the Sea is an experiment in sociological imagination. The novel primarily follows Taylor Brown, a twenty-six year old Australian woman, as she lives through work, parties, her relationship, a funeral, a wedding, shopping, and family issues. The fictional story line of Taylor’s everyday life is interweaved with national and international events and issues from the year 2014. The chapters of the novel are not thematically structured however key sociological concepts do orient and drive the narrative. In the novel I explore various social processes and cultural tensions; rather than present a sociological argument about disciplinary concepts, with the novel I aim to float ideas about society and bring sociological imagination to life. With Taylor Brown’s story I consider the promise and cultural meaning of sociology. Through the novel I explore the everyday processes of relation that link biographies and histories (Mills, 1959), as well as the neoliberal context within which these relations are contemporarily lived through. To think through and challenge the individualistic common sense of the neoliberal imaginary – which is problematic for public sociology, considering that neoliberalism is ‘hostile to the very idea of “society”’ (Burawoy, 2005: 7) – I turn to the relational and affect-centred work of Benedict Spinoza (2005 [1677]). From Spinoza I draw conceptual tools for considering the fundamental and constitutive meaning of ‘social embeddedness’ (Armstrong, 2009: 60), and for exploring the ‘possibilities for autonomy of an individual conceived in a profoundly relational way’ (Armstrong, 2009: 45). I see that these Spinozan concepts may enliven the activity of sociological imagination. To ground and realise the promise of a Spinozist sociology, I consider the temporal and spatial ways that moments and narratives are made meaningful; I focus my attention on forms of Australian cultural meaning, to consider the value of exploring and utilising such cultural meaning for doing affective public sociology that engages people in sociological imagination. This thesis makes two key contributions to sociology. The first is the novel artefact, which operates as an affective form of public sociology that may engage publics, and specifically a student-public, in sociological imagination. The second contribution is the methodological process for doing arts-based public sociology with which I developed and crafted my sociological fiction novel, which I have termed the methods braiding technique. From my analysis I argue that the value of sociological fiction lies in its ability to affectively affirm society. I argue that centring affect in the project of public sociology is important for progressing conceptual and practical approaches to public engagement.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Robinson, Katherine. "An everyday public? : placing public libraries in London and Berlin." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3090/.

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This thesis is a study of three public libraries, two in the Berlin district of Wedding, and one in Thornton Heath, south London. In these neighbourhoods with high levels of ethnic diversity, poverty and transience, the libraries offer a ‘window’ onto their localities, spaces in which local concerns, ideas and practices of contemporary multicultural urban life are played out. Through ethnographic fieldwork in two European cities, this thesis reflects on the particularity of the library as a local institution, and the ways in which larger political concerns emerge in these institutions. In interviews with library staff and in participatory work with library users, I trace how forms of social need and competency, questions of social difference and social justice, and pervasive concerns with demonstrations of value are spoken and unspoken in each site. In considering institutional narratives from library staff alongside the voices of library users, multiple interests and needs are made audible, and the library emerges as a space where expectations and priorities must be negotiated on a daily basis. The thesis explores the library as offering forms of public life and visibility to groups for whom ‘publicness’ is not a given: young children, older women, and teenagers. It argues for the library as an important interstitial space, a place ‘between’ the public life of the street and other forms of public participation, and as a site of social mediation. At the same time, it demonstrates the contingency of public space, the tensions around its use, and points where the library comes up against the limits of its institutional capacity. This thesis contributes to the sociology of public life, public space and public goods, exploring these issues through a highly visible yet under-researched institution, ‘placing’ this discussion within a nuanced account of the city neighbourhoods in which the research is located.
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Gurkan, Ceyhun. "Towards S Critical Sociology And Political Economy Of Public Finance." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612630/index.pdf.

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The exploration of this thesis on public finance proceeds on two axes. First, it aims at developing an ontological perspective to public finance. Accordingly, public finance is defined to be the concrete political relation between the state and society. The thesis that presents a political and historical evaluation of public finance from a critical sociological and political economy approach associates the components of this definition such as public, the political etc. with the relevant debates in social and political theory. In line with this, the traditional harmony-perspective of neoclassical public finance theories, which is ignorant of the political, is criticized, calling it as &lsquo<br>police finance&rsquo<br>instead of &lsquo<br>public finance&rsquo<br>. Secondly, the thesis explores the history of fiscal thought between the 15th-19th centuries with special reference to the Ottoman Empire. All in all, with these topics this thesis aims at making a contribution to the field of &ldquo<br>fiscal sociology&rdquo<br>from a critical sociological and political economy approach.
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Dixon, Lindsey. "Public Trust in the Mass Media." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/394.

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The purpose of this research is to determine whether the public has an elevated amount of trust in the industry of the mass media. The data for the research come from the 2005 Eurobarometer 64.2. The participants consist of the population of the respective countries of the European Union Member States. The participants are all more than 15 years of age. The results of this study show that certain groups of people have an elevated amount of trust in the media, but overall the dependent variables used explain little with regard to trust in the mass media.
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Phillips, Amy. "Framing the Public Library| The Public Perception of the Public Library in the Media." Dominican University, 2013.

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Seymour, Wendy, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Remaking the body : Explorations in the sociology of embodiment." Deakin University, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050728.111439.

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As embodied social agents our lives are preoccupied with the production and reproduction of bodies. Making, unmaking and remaking our embodiment are ongoing activities. Eating, exercise, washing, grooming, dressing, for example, are activities in which the body engages in routine tasks of bodily management. Such activities can be seen as everyday rehabilitation. The study explores the impact of major physical impairment on embodiment, and on the processes involved in re-embodiment after catastrophic injury or disease. The experiences of the people in this study dramatically highlight the continuous, but largely taken for granted processes involved in our embodiment. Four analytical strands are interwoven throughout the study. The first strand relates to the frailty and vulnerability of the human body, characteristics which are epitomised by the bodies of the informants in this study. The second strand engages with key aspects of the context in which re-embodiment takes place, namely a context replete with crisis, danger, fear, uncertainty and risk. The third strand projects into the future in considering the ongoing project of self. The fourth strand addresses the institutional and social impediments which may confine vulnerable bodies and limit the exploration of more expansive bodies. The study is situated within the general theoretical approach of the sociology of the body. While recognizing the powerful impact of social discourse in the production of bodies, the study focuses on the critical role of embodiment in the reconstitution of self. The people in this study have experienced profound bodily change, but although this damage has disrupted, it has not annihilated their embodied selves. The people still possess and occupy their bodies. It is the obduracy of embodiment which directs the processes involved in remaking the body.
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Barnes, Latarcia R. "Public opinions of the courts| Does mass media influence public opinion?" Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3614483.

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<p> The general public knows very little about the criminal justice system overall, which can result in an assorted, often negative, opinions of the criminal justice system. The public's confidence in the criminal justice system is imperative to the operation of the criminal justice system. Our criminal justice system relies on the participation from the community in order to work. One speculation as to why the public has a less than favorable opinion of the criminal justice system is that the system is viewed a mystery. The public has no idea how each component of the criminal justice system works because the majority of the public has had no direct contact with the criminal justice system. Most information obtained about the criminal justice system, the public gathered from what they hear and see from the media or from other people. Using secondary data from a national survey, this dissertation analyzed mass media, specifically TV news, newspapers, and TV judge programs, to determine these variables have an influence on the relationship of the courts and public opinion in the United States. This dissertation can be viewed as ground zero in terms of how the media began to influence the public's opinion of the criminal justice system, especially the court component. For this study, a quantitative approach using a descriptive survey design was used. It was determined that the respondents were not as influenced by mass media as anticipated. The findings of this study were more consistent with the international literature than domestic literature on this topic. This dissertation offers a better understanding of the connection between mass media, even without the more modern aspects of the media such as the internet, and the public's views of the courts. This dissertation presents valuable information for satisfaction with the courts and attitude toward the courts that has not been seen in the current literature on this subject. In conclusion, recommendations were provided offered to further advance the research in this area.</p>
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Pal, Maia. "The politics of extraterritoriality : a historical sociology of public international law." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45248/.

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This dissertation develops a historical and theoretical reconstruction of the category and praxis of extraterritoriality in the fields of International Relations and Public International Law. The analysis first addresses the dominant Neo-Liberal tradition and its focus on the concept of 'judicial globalisation', before engaging with critical and Marxist studies that rely on imperialism and capitalism as explanatory phenomena. In response, the thesis argues that extraterritoriality is a political process, covering a set of jurisdictional struggles determined by contested social property relations. As legal strategies of accumulation, these struggles can neither be explained by a chronologically and discursively progressive deterritorialising world order, through which they emerge as depoliticised events, nor by structural and functional theories of capitalist or Western imperialism that narrowly assume their logic and behaviour. This argument emerges from the analysis of three historical case studies: 16th to 17th century Spain, 17th to 18th century France, and 19th century Britain. Each case, set in its international context, evinces the role of specific intellectual debates, juridical institutions and legal strategies of accumulation in shaping contending extraterritorial regimes and legal world orders. Thereby, the thesis reformulates a Political Marxist approach as a historical sociology that places the actors and politics of international legal processes at the forefront of the history of Public International Law. This approach enables a non-determinist understanding of contemporary extraterritoriality. It dissociates its analysis from a naturalised history of judicial globalisation and from a monolithic history of capitalism, to resituate extraterritorial practices in a more open and contested field in between those of International Relations and Public International Law. In conclusion, examining the politics of extraterritoriality exposes Public International Law as a practical site of struggle between legal strategies of expansion, accumulation and resistance. This historical and theoretical reconstruction asserts the political legitimacy and agency of otherwise excluded legal actors and ideas, affected by and involved in the multiple transitions in the forms of sovereign jurisdiction and territorial control.
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Sin, Chih Hoong. "Ethnic residential segregation in Singapore's public housing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326831.

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Tufts, Jennifer. "Understanding public attitudes toward sentencing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ58517.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Public sociology"

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Germov, John, and Marilyn Poole. Public Sociology. 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791.

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Tikhonova, Elena, and Egor Bunov. Sociology of public opinion. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/24742.

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Vincent, Jeffries, ed. Handbook of public sociology. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

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1950-, Backhaus Jürgen G., ed. Fiscal sociology: Public auditing. Peter Lang, 2007.

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Wilson, William. Sociology and the Public Agenda. SAGE Publications, Inc., 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483325484.

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1935-, Wilson William J., ed. Sociology and the public agenda. Sage Publications, 1993.

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T, Nichols Lawrence, ed. Public sociology: The contemporary debate. Transaction Publishers, 2007.

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Nock, Steven L. The sociology of public issues. Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1990.

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Nagla, Madhu. Sociology of health. Sage Publications, 2013.

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1961-, Hossfeld Leslie H., and Nyden Gwendolyn E, eds. Public sociology: Research, action, and change. Pine Forge Press, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Public sociology"

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Dawson, Matt. "Public Sociology." In Social Theory for Alternative Societies. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-33734-4_11.

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McLeod, Julie, and Samantha Mannix. "Educating society: Sociological debates and dilemmas." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-27.

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Farrugia, David. "Youth, identity, and social change." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-8.

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Singleton, Andrew. "Religion and spirituality in contemporary Australia." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-18.

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Freij, Maria. "A sociology of pandemics: The nexus of personal troubles and public issues." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-25.

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Marjoribanks, Timothy. "Media and popular culture." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-26.

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Germov, John. "Working 24/7: The new work ethic." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-24.

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Coffey, Julia, Akane Kanai, Megan Sharp, and Barrie Shannon. "Gender and sexualities." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-15.

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Prehn, Jacob, and Maggie Walter. "Indigenous issues, rights, and sovereignty." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-17.

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Woodward, Ian. "Consumption and lifestyles." In Public Sociology, 5th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003193791-10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Public sociology"

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Mykhailov, Volodymyr, Olena Isakova, Larysa Polyakova, Sergiy Pachev, and Natalia Shkoda. "PARTICIPATION OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL IN UKRAINE." In 24th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 2024. STEF92 Technology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2024/5.1/s20.24.

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Ukraine actively participated in the implementation of the provisions of the European Green Deal (EGD), seeking to build a "green" economy and a prosperous society. The purpose of this study is to determine the forms and directions of activities of public associations in the implementation of the provisions of the EGD in Ukraine. Influential public organizations involved in the implementation of the European Green Deal are the Center for Environmental Initiatives "Ekodiya" (Kyiv), "Ekoclub" (Rivne), "Ecology. Right. Human", Information Center "Green Dossier", Ukrainian Climate Network, etc. To implement the provisions of the EGD, public associations acted in the following directions: increasing the EU's climate ambition for 2030 and 2050; supplying clean, affordable, and secure energy; mobilizing industry for a clean and circular economy; building and renovating an energy and resource-efficient way; accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility; from "Farm to Fork": designing a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system; preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity; a zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment. The work uses some general scientific (logical) and special interdisciplinary research methods. Among the general scientific methods used are: analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction. Special interdisciplinary methods used in history, political science, and sociology are presented: institutional, systemic, and content analysis methods.
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Damovski, Andon. "CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES THROUGH THE PRISM OF PUBLIC POLICY." In SECURITY HORIZONS. Faculty of Security- Skopje, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20544/icp.2.5.21.p25.

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The boundaries of modernism are fluid, not only in purely temporal terms but also in sociological terms. The famous Polish sociologist Zygmund Bauman speaks about the very notion of fluid society, and according to him, fluid modernism has changed the way we think and experience the modern world. In his masterpiece Fluid Times, Bauman explores, examines, and attempts to explain the sources and causes of the endemic uncertainty that shapes life in a globalized world. This is primarily due to the speed and depth of change that has taken place over the past decades. These changes concern the fall of communism, the block division of the world, but also the enlargement of the European integration or the increase in the number of new nation-states and conflicts. Consequently, modern social interactions and processes create new sociological issues in society, which significantly change the direction of action of sociology itself. For this goal, modern sociology emphasizes focuses on citizenship and civil rights and responsibilities, an ideology that guides societies, collective action and social movements, culture and globalization. That is why today it is very difficult to systematize all sociological works or to include all theorists. Within this text, the emphasis is placed on public policy and its importance in contemporary sociology. The challenges that contemporary sociology faces in solving contemporary sociological issues were analyzed through the differentiation of three separate but related aspects (civic partnership, culture, and globalization) within the complexity of public policy. Keywords: sociology, public policy, culture, globalization, civil partnership
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Ushakov, E. V. "Interdisciplinary Research in Public Policy." In Scientific dialogue: Questions of philosophy, sociology, history, political science. ЦНК МОАН, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/spc-01-07-2020-02.

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Tresnawati, Fitria, and Bachrudin Musthafa. "Expressive Writing in Minimizing Students' Public Speaking Anxiety." In 1st UPI International Conference on Sociology Education. Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icse-15.2016.85.

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Kateryna, Husakova. "Public activity as a social institution." In Sociology – Social Work and Social Welfare: Regulation of Social Problems. Видавець ФОП Марченко Т.В., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/sosrsw2023.035.

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Summary. Public activism is a significant phenomenon of modern society, manifested in the active engagement of citizens in addressing social, political, and economic issues. The article examines various aspects of public activism, including its main characteristics in the context of institutional and practical dimensions.One of the key aspects of civil activism is its expression in different spheres of relations between citizens and authorities. In particular, the article discusses the dynamics of "citizen-citizen" and "citizen-authority" interactions in the context of public activism. Studying these relationships allows us to understand how public activism influences democratic processes and the development of civil society. In addition, the article also analyzes the transformation of public activism after 2014, particularly in the context of the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity. These events played a significant role in shaping a new institution of society, where civil activism became one of the influential forces impacting political processes and reforms. The peculiarities of the institutional approach to the study of public activism are also examined in detail in the article. The distinctiveness of this approach lies in analyzing public activism as a social institution that interacts with other institutions. Key words: public activism, institution of society, public, transformations of society, activity, civil society.
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Intachat, Nantawan. "The Influence of Bio-Sociology and Behavioral Factors on Thai AdultMortality in the Northeastern Community of Thailand." In 2012 International Conference on Public Management. Atlantis Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icpm.2012.50.

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Hartoyo, Djoko, A. Harsono Soeparjo, Abimanyu T. Alamsyah, and Arie Herlambang. "The Aspect of Social, Economic, Cultural and Public Health after Ten Years of Mining Closure Activities." In 1st UPI International Conference on Sociology Education. Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icse-15.2016.59.

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Rogovaya, Olga. "ICT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES." In SGEM 2014 Scientific Conference on PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION. Stef92 Technology, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2014/b11/s3.094.

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Radionova, L., and N. Kozyrieva. "Transformation of public spaces of modern urban." In SCHOLARLY DISPUTES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND HISTORY AMIDST GLOBALIZATION AND DIGITALIZATION. Baltija Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-181-7-26.

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Shkoliar, Sofia, and Mariana Shkoliar. "Art clusters and squats as heterotopias of the city’s public space." In SOCIOLOGY – SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE – REGULATION OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS. NDSAN (MFC - coordinator of the NDSAN), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32437/sswswproceedings-2020.ssms.

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Reports on the topic "Public sociology"

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Vasilenko, L. A. Sociology in Public Administration: The Use of Internet Research. Sociology and society: social inequality and social justice (Yekaterinburg, October 19-21, 2016) [Electronic resource], 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/vasilenko-3-8.

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Grimm, Kevin, and Nilam Ram. Growth Modeling with SEM. Instats Inc., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.61700/scobgclr2wfd61424.

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This comprehensive seminar on Growth Modeling with SEM, led by professors Kevin Grimm (ASU) and Nilam Ram (Stanford University), provides essential training for analyzing longitudinal data in various disciplines, including Psychology, Sociology, and Public Health. Participants will gain practical skills in applying linear and nonlinear growth models using Mplus and R, enhancing their ability to conduct sophisticated longitudinal research.
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กิจไพศาลรัตนา, นฤมล. การใช้วารสารต่างประเทศในห้องสมุดคณะรัฐศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย. จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, 2001. https://doi.org/10.58837/chula.res.2001.33.

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การวิจัยในครั้งนี้ เป็นการศึกษาการใช้วารสารต่างประเทศในห้องสมุดคณะรัฐศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ทั้งวารสารที่ห้องสมุดยังคงบอกรับในปัจจุบัน วารสารที่หยุดบอกรับแล้ว และวารสารที่ได้รับอภินันทนาการ จำนวนทั้งสิ้น 153 รายชื่อ โดยศึกษาในด้านปริมาณการใช้ ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างภาคการศึกษากับอันดับที่ในการใช้ การใช้วารสารฉบับทันสมัยและฉบับย้อนหลัง ประเภทของผู้ใช้ อัตราค่าวารสารต่อการใช้แตละครั้ง และอัตราการใช้วารสารแต่ละรายชื่อทั้งนี้เพื่อเป็นองค์ประกอบในการพิจารณาต่ออายุสมาชิกวารสาร ติดสินใจหยุดบอกรับวารสารที่มีการใช้น้อยหรือไม่มีการใช้เลย บอกรับวารสารที่หยุดบอกรับไปแล้วแต่เป็นวารสารที่มีการใช้มากหรือวารสารที่เป็นวารสารสำคัญในสาขาวิชาพิจารณาบอกรับวารสารสำคัญในสาขาวิชาที่ห้องสมุดยังไม่เคยบอกรับ ตลอดจนเพื่อเป็นแนวทางในการบริหารจัดการวารสารทั้งด้านการจัดหา การจัดเก็บและการให้บริการวารสารทั้งหมดในห้องสมุดคณะรัฐศาสตร์จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัยผลจากการศึกษาวิจัยในครั้งนี้พบว่า 1. วารสารที่มีการใช้ตั้งแต่ 6-1,750 ฉบับ หรือที่มีการใช้น้อยถึงมากที่สุด มทั้งหมด 97 รายชื่อ วารสารที่มีการใช้น้อยที่สุด 1-5 ฉบับ มี 23 รายชื่อ และสารสารที่ไม่มีการใช้เลยมี 33 รายชื่อ 2. ในจำนวนนี้วารสารที่มีการใช้มากทีสุด 10 อันดับแรก ได้แก่ Time, The Economist, Far Eastern Economic Review, Asian Survey, Public Adminsitration, Review Foreign Affaires, International Financial Statistics, Contenporary Soutnesat Asia, Beijing Review และ Pacific Review 3. วารสารที่ห้องสมุดบอกรับเป็นสมาชิก และมีการใช้น้อยที่สุด ได้แก่ Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars และ Science &amp; Society และวารสาร 2 รายชื่อดังกล่าว จากการศึกษาพบว่าสมควรหยุดการบอกรับ 4. วารสารที่ห้องสมุดหยุดการบอกรับแล้ว แต่เป็นวารสารที่มีการใช้มาก ได้แก่ Foreign Affairs และ Journal of Southeast Asin Studies ห้องสมุดควรบอกรับวารสาร 2 รายชื่อดังกล่าว 5. วารสารที่ห้องสมุดหยุดการบอกรับแล้ว และเป็นวารสารที่มีปริมาณการใช้น้อย แต่เนื่องจากเป็นวารสารที่จัดพิมพ์โดยสมาคมและสถาบันการศึกษาที่มีชื่อเสียงของสหรัฐอเมริกา และมีการจัดอันดับเป็นวารสารชั้นนำในสาขาวิชาทางรัฐศาสตร์ จึงสมควรบอกรับใหม่ได้แก่ American Journal of Internation Law และ Social Forces 6. วารสารที่ได้รับอภินันทนาการและเป็นวารสารที่มีปริมาณการใช้มาก ทางห้องสมุดจะต้องจัดหามาให้บริการอย่างครบถ้วนสมบูรณ์ ได้แก่ Asian Review, Beijing Review และ International Financial Statistics 7. ห้องสมุดคณะรัฐศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ควรเสนอรายชื่อวารสารที่น่าสนใจในสาขาวิชาการเมืองการปกครอง สาจาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศ สาขาบริหารรัฐกิจ และสาขาสังคมวิทยาและมานุษยวิทยา ที่ห้องสมุดยังไม่เคยบอกรับมาก่อน จำนวน 7 รายชื่อ ได้แก่ American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Sociologist, International Journal of Sociology, Sociology and Social Research: An International Journal, Journal of International Affairs และ American Review of Public Administration เพื่อให้อาจารย์แต่ละสาขาวิชาได้ร่วมพิจารณาเพื่อการบอกรับเป็นสมาชิกหากเห็นความจำเป็นและมีงบประมาณเพียงพอ
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Lawson, Andrew. Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling in R. Instats Inc., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.61700/jsdeeudk51kk31519.

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This workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to advanced techniques for analyzing spatial and spatio-temporal data. While the examples used will be primarily from the health sciences, this four-day hands-on workshop is designed to equip PhD students, professors, and professional researchers with the skills to conduct cutting-edge research in various fields, including Geography, Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, Ecology, Sociology, and Political Science.
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Schneider, Carsten. Advanced Applications of QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) in R. Instats Inc., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.61700/4fghv0ob2x5de469.

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This seminar on advanced set-theoretic methods for the social sciences focuses on applied Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). This method is used in fields as diverse as political science, public policy, international relations, sociology, business and management, organizational studies, and even musicology. This seminar will enable participants to produce cutting edge QCA-based research through hands-on coverage of the most recent advances in QCA. All applied components of the seminar are performed in the R software environment, using RStudio and R packages QCA and SetMethods. An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of the seminar, along with 2 ECTS Equivalent points.
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Schneider, Carsten. Advanced Applications of QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) in R. Instats Inc., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.61700/qdu1nxlyz9e6c469.

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This seminar on advanced set-theoretic methods for the social sciences focuses on applied Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). This method is used in fields as diverse as political science, public policy, international relations, sociology, business and management, organizational studies, and even musicology. This seminar will enable participants to produce cutting edge QCA-based research through hands-on coverage of the most recent advances in QCA. All applied components of the seminar are performed in the R software environment, using RStudio (Cloud) and R packages QCA and SetMethods. An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of the seminar. For European PhD students, the seminar offers 2 ECTS Equivalent points.
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Schneider, Carsten. Introduction to QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) with R. Instats Inc., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.61700/85r1sesxjhke3469.

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This seminar introduces applied set-theoretic methods for the social sciences, focusing on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). This method is used in fields as diverse as political science, public policy, international relations, sociology, business and management, organizational studies, and even musicology. This seminar will enable participants to produce a publishable QCA of their own. To achieve this, the seminar provides both the formal set-theoretical underpinnings of QCA as well as the technical and practical research skills necessary for performing a QCA. All applied components of the seminar are performed in the R software environment, using RStudio and R packages QCA and SetMethods. An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of the seminar, along with 2 ECTS Equivalent points.
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Schneider, Carsten. Introduction to QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) with R. Instats Inc., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.61700/umqeben6y0b41469.

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This seminar introduces applied set-theoretic methods for the social sciences, focusing on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). This method is used in fields as diverse as political science, public policy, international relations, sociology, business and management, organizational studies, and even musicology. This seminar will enable participants to produce a publishable QCA of their own. To achieve this, the seminar provides both the formal set-theoretical underpinnings of QCA as well as the technical and practical research skills necessary for performing a QCA. All applied components of the seminar are performed in the R software environment, using RStudio (Cloud) and R packages QCA and SetMethods. An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of the seminar. For European PhD students, each seminar offers 2 ECTS Equivalent points.
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Maron, Nancy, and Peter Potter. TOME Stakeholder Value Assessment: Final Report. Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29242/report.tome2023.

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The Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of University Presses have published a final report assessing the success of their five-year pilot project to encourage sustainable digital publication of and public access to scholarly books. The associations launched the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) project in 2018 to publish humanities and social science scholarship on the internet, where these peer-reviewed works can be fully integrated into the larger network of scholarly and scientific research. The project engaged a network of more than 60 university presses and ultimately produced more than 150 open-access scholarly works. The books cover a wide range of topics in many disciplines, including philosophy, history, political science, sociology, and gender and ethnic studies. The pilot was designed to last five years, and the sponsoring associations committed to assessing its value to its target audience at the end of that period. The report analyzes whether the community of authors, institutions, libraries, and presses that participated in the pilot found it helpful. Author Nancy Maron of BlueSky to BluePrint surveyed and interviewed authors and TOME contacts at participating institutions to assess how each benefited from the pilot—from increased global readership to stronger relationships among libraries, research deans, and faculty.
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HEFNER, Robert. IHSAN ETHICS AND POLITICAL REVITALIZATION Appreciating Muqtedar Khan’s Islam and Good Governance. IIIT, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.001.20.

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Ours is an age of pervasive political turbulence, and the scale of the challenge requires new thinking on politics as well as public ethics for our world. In Western countries, the specter of Islamophobia, alt-right populism, along with racialized violence has shaken public confidence in long-secure assumptions rooted in democracy, diversity, and citizenship. The tragic denouement of so many of the Arab uprisings together with the ascendance of apocalyptic extremists like Daesh and Boko Haram have caused an even greater sense of alarm in large parts of the Muslim-majority world. It is against this backdrop that M.A. Muqtedar Khan has written a book of breathtaking range and ethical beauty. The author explores the history and sociology of the Muslim world, both classic and contemporary. He does so, however, not merely to chronicle the phases of its development, but to explore just why the message of compassion, mercy, and ethical beauty so prominent in the Quran and Sunna of the Prophet came over time to be displaced by a narrow legalism that emphasized jurisprudence, punishment, and social control. In the modern era, Western Orientalists and Islamists alike have pushed the juridification and interpretive reification of Islamic ethical traditions even further. Each group has asserted that the essence of Islam lies in jurisprudence (fiqh), and both have tended to imagine this legal heritage on the model of Western positive law, according to which law is authorized, codified, and enforced by a leviathan state. “Reification of Shariah and equating of Islam and Shariah has a rather emaciating effect on Islam,” Khan rightly argues. It leads its proponents to overlook “the depth and heights of Islamic faith, mysticism, philosophy or even emotions such as divine love (Muhabba)” (13). As the sociologist of Islamic law, Sami Zubaida, has similarly observed, in all these developments one sees evidence, not of a traditionalist reassertion of Muslim values, but a “triumph of Western models” of religion and state (Zubaida 2003:135). To counteract these impoverishing trends, Khan presents a far-reaching analysis that “seeks to move away from the now failed vision of Islamic states without demanding radical secularization” (2). He does so by positioning himself squarely within the ethical and mystical legacy of the Qur’an and traditions of the Prophet. As the book’s title makes clear, the key to this effort of religious recovery is “the cosmology of Ihsan and the worldview of Al-Tasawwuf, the science of Islamic mysticism” (1-2). For Islamist activists whose models of Islam have more to do with contemporary identity politics than a deep reading of Islamic traditions, Khan’s foregrounding of Ihsan may seem unfamiliar or baffling. But one of the many achievements of this book is the skill with which it plumbs the depth of scripture, classical commentaries, and tasawwuf practices to recover and confirm the ethic that lies at their heart. “The Quran promises that God is with those who do beautiful things,” the author reminds us (Khan 2019:1). The concept of Ihsan appears 191 times in 175 verses in the Quran (110). The concept is given its richest elaboration, Khan explains, in the famous hadith of the Angel Gabriel. This tradition recounts that when Gabriel appeared before the Prophet he asked, “What is Ihsan?” Both Gabriel’s question and the Prophet’s response make clear that Ihsan is an ideal at the center of the Qur’an and Sunna of the Prophet, and that it enjoins “perfection, goodness, to better, to do beautiful things and to do righteous deeds” (3). It is this cosmological ethic that Khan argues must be restored and implemented “to develop a political philosophy … that emphasizes love over law” (2). In its expansive exploration of Islamic ethics and civilization, Khan’s Islam and Good Governance will remind some readers of the late Shahab Ahmed’s remarkable book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Ahmed 2016). Both are works of impressive range and spiritual depth. But whereas Ahmed stood in the humanities wing of Islamic studies, Khan is an intellectual polymath who moves easily across the Islamic sciences, social theory, and comparative politics. He brings the full weight of his effort to conclusion with policy recommendations for how “to combine Sufism with political theory” (6), and to do so in a way that recommends specific “Islamic principles that encourage good governance, and politics in pursuit of goodness” (8).
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