The growing interest in public sociologies marks an increasing gap between the ethos of sociologists and social, political, and economic tendencies in the wider society. Public sociology aims to enrich public debate about moral and political issues by infusing them with sociological theory and research. It has to be distinguished from policy, professional, and critical sociologies. Together the...

∗This work was supported by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington with funds from the University Initiatives Funds. In addition, Quinn acknowledges research support under NSF Grant SES 01-36676. †Department of Political Science and CSSS, University of Washington, [email protected] ‡Department of Sociology, University of Washington, [email protected]...

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