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Sociology and the Public Agenda

By William Julius Wilson

Book information

Publisher
Inc, Sage Publications
Year
1993
ISBN
0803950829, 9780803950825
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9266981 bytes)
Series
American Sociological Association Presidential Series
Pages
391\408
Time added
2015-05-20 13:51:17
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Description

The editor of this volume asserts that sociology's ostrich-like stance threatens to leave the discipline in a position of irrelevance to the world at large and compromises the support of policymakers, funders, media and the public. Wilson's vision is of a sociology attuned to the public agenda, influencing public policy through both short and long-range analysis from a sociological perspective. Using a variety of policy issues, perspectives, methods and cases, the distinguished contibutors to this volume both demonstrate and emphasize Wilson's ideas.

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