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Public sociology is a subfield of the wider sociological discipline that emphasizes expanding the disciplinary boundaries of sociology in order to engage with non-academic audiences. It is perhaps best understood as a style of sociology rather than a particular method, theory, or set of political values.

30698 Results for the subject "Public Sociology":

Public relations and historical sociology: Historiography as reflexive critique

Highlights•Historiographical issues in relation to public relations historical research and thinking.•Draws on historical sociology, historical theory, social theory, political theory, and political science concepts.•Critiques ‘model’ approaches to public relations historiography.

Jacquie L’Etang Publication date: 2014/11/01
Full Length ArticleSelf-deception in public relations. A psychological and sociological approach to the challenge of conflicting expectations

Highlights•The role of self-deception in public relations is examined.•The conceptual roots of self-deception in evolutionary psychology and organizational sociology are being discussed.•A framework is being developed for the origins, drivers, and functions of self-deception in public relations.•Self-deception is an essential mechanism in the ‘arms race’ between communicators and their audiences.

Jens Seiffert-Brockmann Publication date: 2017/03/01
Classical republicanism and the contemporary voter: An empirical cultural sociology of the relationship between the private realm and the public sphere

AbstractPolitical behavior is often explained on the basis of the general presupposition that an individual's life experiences generate interests that, in turn, influence voting. The alternative conception, based on cultural sociology, explains ways of feeling, thinking, and doing (e.g., voting) on the basis of a social-symbolic text that creates a symbolic order, that influences a person's perception of his situation, and that establishes a legitimate link between this perception and a way to politically act upon it. A cultural sociology of politics has therefore, first, to answer the question whether today the private and the public spheres are fused or compartmentalized and, if compartmentalized, then which of the two influences voting.Hypotheses that can be derived from those different theoretical positions are tested on the basis of a purely random sample collected in 2006 of 2656 Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, aged 19–81. Findings indicate that the private and the publi Read more...

Mark Elchardus Publication date: 2011/10/01
Replication and reality: or, the future of sociology☆

AbstractThis article has been written to raise some questions about the practice of sociology in the past in order to be clearer about sociological practice in the future. Its object is to encourage some reflection on what sociologists do in order that sociology may have a securer future. More specifically the author is concerned with the theoretical implications of some of the methodological assumptions that sociologists make, and with the need for a better epistemological base for sociology as a predicting science.

Colin Bell Publication date: 1974/06/01
Medical sociology and public health: Interdisciplinary relationships 1950–90

Relationships between epidemiology and sociology applied to medicine are traced from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, against the background of developments taking place in the disciplines and in the career opportunities of their proponents. Negative tensions between them are ascribed to the identity crisis which public health/community medicine faced during the period, to its weak position in the hierarchy of medical specialities and to the emphasis given by sociologists to the analysis of power structures within health services. Positive tension arose from the intellectual discourse between them and the opportunities for mutual exchange of ideas.

Margot Jefferys Publication date: 1991/01/01
Short communicationTowards the professionalisation of public relations in Malaysia: Perception management and strategy development

AbstractThe aim of this study is to explore how the status and standards of public relations as a profession are perceived by the three main groups involved in public relations: academics, practitioners, and business leaders. It is concluded that public relations can be a ‘true’ profession if all parties involved are united and committed to developing standardised, universal forms of public relations practise.

Zulhamri Abdullah Publication date: 2008/09/01
La sociologie de l'environment en Europe: Évolution, champs d'action et ambivalences

AbstractEnvironmental sociology in Europe: evolution, fields of action an ambivalences.No one will deny the environmental issues to be of utmost importance to contemporary society, and yet sociology has not contributed too much attention to it till very recently. This article sketches a state of the art of European environmental sociology, and draws some conclusions from it. For reasons that directly relate to its emancipation from the sciences and, more specifically from any physical determinism in social thinking, sociology for quite a long time more or less ignored the interaction between the social system and its surrounding physical environment. And yet human ecology and related approaches could provide inspiring theoretical assets for a sociology of the environment - and actually did, so, albeit rarely -. In the empirical research three main themes can be distinguished: the research into environmental attitudes, opinions and behaviour, the research into the environmental movement Read more...

Pieter Leroy Publication date: 2001/01/01
Medical anthropology: Some contrasts with medical sociology☆

AbstractIn spite of many similarities, the fields of medical anthropology and medical sociology differ significantly in origins, in research methodologies, and in emphases. Medical anthropology has developed from three sources; (1) the traditional ethnographic interest in primitive medicine, (2) the culture and personality movement of the 1940s and (3) the international public health movement following World War II. A holistic, systems approach to research appears to characterize medical anthropology more than medical sociology. Anthropologists traditionally have studied the underdogs, the world's primitive and peasant peoples. They reflect this orientation in their tendency to identify with patients and health workers near the bottom of the medical hierarchy, rather than with physicians and other high status professionals. In the final analysis the medical anthropologist sees problems in a cultural context, while the medical sociologist sees them in a social context.

George M. Foster Publication date: 1975/08/01
Conceptual citation differences in science, technology, and social sciences literature

AbstractThis study examined three disciplines and the literature to determine if there were any differences in conceptual referencing patterns. Physics, engineering, and sociology were examined using the actual literature of the disciplines for the year 1984. Samples were drawn from major abstracting and indexing services. A Dunn planned comparison approach was used to test for differences. The results of the testing indicated that physics, engineering, and sociology all differ in terms of conceptual references. Two sub-tests were performed on the data. Total number of references were examined, indicating no difference between physics and sociology, but distinct differences between physics and engineering and between sociology and engineering. The second sub-test examined the number of references to literature within a 5-year span of publication. This second test indicated differences between physics and sociology and between physics and engineering, but no difference between sociology Read more...

C.D. Hurt Publication date: 1987/01/01
Ethnomethodology and literature: Preliminaries to a sociology of reading

AbstractThe field of reading as a practical social accomplishment is located as a province previously ignored by sociologies of literature and as an investigateable ‘object’ for ethnomethodology. Central issues in ethnomethodology are discussed concerning their ripeness for a possible sociology of reading. Throughout the paper, the issue of the distinction between reading and conversation is treated. Finally, some initial ways of empirically locating readers' resources are given and conclusions are drawn as to what an ethnomethodological sociology of literature might look like.

Alexander McHoul Publication date: 1978/03/01
The sociologist as social architect: A new task for macro-sociology?☆

AbstractThe theme of voluntarism and determinism is revisited, here in the context of forecasting for futurists. Although fraught with danger the use of scenarios is vital in a world of rapid change, in which people are more than ever aware of the choices open to them and the ways they are able to determine their own future. The author proposes that a merger between the approaches of the sociologist and the futurist could aid our understanding of social futures. The outcome is a ‘design sociology’ based on six key concepts.

Bart van Steenbergen Publication date: 1983/10/01
Sociology or social science?

AbstractModern sociology has set itself up as a specialised discipline dissociating itself from the broad-ranging theories of development of the early sociologists and breaking the links with economics, social anthropology and politics which had formed such an exciting unity in their works or at least in their lives.

Jaroslav Krejci Publication date: 1981/01/01
CommentaryExplaining drug policy: Towards an historical sociology of policy change

AbstractThe goal of seeking to understand the development over time of drug policies is a specific version of the more general intellectual project of finding ways of explaining social change. The latter has been a preoccupation of some of the greatest thinkers within the social sciences of the last 200 years, from Foucault all the way back to the three nineteenth-century pioneers, Marx, Durkheim and Weber. I describe this body of work as ‘historical sociology’. In this paper, I outline how a particular approach to historical sociology can be fruitfully drawn upon to understand the development of drug policy, using by way of illustration the example of the analysis of a recent transformation in British drug policy: the rise of the criminal justice agenda. I conclude by arguing that by looking at developments in drug policy in this way, some new insights are opened up.

Toby Seddon Publication date: 2011/11/01
Reframing public relations: The evolution of a reflective paradigm for organizational legitimization

AbstractThis article endeavors to understand the emergence, diffusion and dynamics of the social processes that activate and constitute public relations. By applying Niklas Luhmann's epistemological sociology, it identifies central problems of late modern society and shows how society deals with these problems through evolutionary learning processes and the development of a reflective paradigm. It concludes that the role of public relations can be seen as organizational legitimization in interrelation to different and changing forms of societal coordination.

Susanne Holmström Publication date: 2005/11/01
The missing link in public relations research

Walter K. Lindenmann reports in this article that interest and excitement in public relations research is burgeoning both in the academic and commercial worlds. Eventually, he adds, this research will aid in the development of public relations as a profession.Dr. Lindenmann expresses concerns about academic research: research done with small data base, methodology and numbers stressed at the expense of conceptual systems, and language that the practitioner cannot understand. To bridge the gap between academics and professionals, Lindenmann proposes a series of small group conferences in which researchers from the two camps can work together on problems relevant to the public relations field.Lindenmann holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and is Vice-President, Attitude and Program Research, Hill and Knowlton, Inc., New York.

Walter K. Lindenmann Publication date: 1979/03/01
Sociological imperialism and the profession of medicine A critical examination of the thesis of medical imperialism

AbstractThe thesis of medical imperialism is part of a more general sociological analysis of professional ambition—an analysis which can, in its turn, also be applied to sociology. Doing so provides a more satisfactory theory of professional change, one which explains the appeal of both conservatism and radicalism at different points in a profession's trajectory. Applying this to medical sociology, it is argued that current critiques of medical expansion, although containing much that is of value, are in some places misleading of exaggerated, for this young discipline and its ally, public health, have a vested interest in the diminution of the present form of the medical empire. Moreover the social model of health which they themselves prefer is in some ways a better vehicle for medical imperialism than the much abused “medical model”.

P.M. Strong Publication date: 1979/01/01
Regular ArticleTowards a sociology of CAM and nursing

AbstractOver recent years a sporadic, but not insignificant, sociology of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has begun to emerge. However, to date, the systematic sociological study of the apparent affinity between CAM, nursing as a profession and its practitioners has been absent from it. In this paper we argue for the need for a rigorous sociology of nursing and CAM and set out a provisional framework through which this might be operationalized. Three broad themes, as well as cross-cutting issues, are outlined. The way in which the challenges of CAM are mediated at the level of the individual and the profession are pivotal to analysis. An understanding of this mediation is crucial both as a means of extending knowledge, and as a means of engaging with complex issues such as the role of evidence, and the equity of provision, that are likely to accompany any extension of CAM mainstreaming.

Dr Philip Tovey Publication date: 2002/02/01
Let’s dance: Organization studies, medical sociology and health policy

AbstractThis Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine investigates the potential for positive inter-disciplinary interaction, a ‘generative dance’, between organization studies (OS), and two of the journal’s traditional disciplinary foundations: health policy and medical sociology. This is both necessary and timely because of the extent to which organizations have become a neglected topic within medical sociology and health policy analysis. We argue there is need for further and more sustained theoretical and conceptual synergy between OS, medical sociology and health policy, which provides, on the one-hand a cutting-edge and thought-provoking basis for the analysis of contemporary health reforms, and on the other hand, enables the development and elaboration of theory. We emphasize that sociologists and policy analysts in healthcare have been leading contributors to our understanding of organizations in modern society, that OS enhances our understanding of medical sett Read more...

Graeme Currie Publication date: 2012/02/01
How peer review empowers the academic profession and university managers: Changes in relationships between the state, universities and the professoriate☆

AbstractUniversities are expected to be important players in the development of knowledge economies; therefore, they are a priority on the policy agenda of the European commission and of member states. To understand the new institutional settings where knowledge production is achieved, we must turn our attention to analyzing the reforms underway.Building on conclusions from the sociology of professions, the sociology of organizations and public policy analysis, this paper argues that the policy instruments developed by public authorities to measure scientific performance and selectively allocate resources rely on peer review processes and reinforce an academic elite. As a result, the internal power distribution within the academic profession as well as within universities has changed.On the one hand, peer review is used as a managerial tool by universities. The decisions made at the university level are largely based on (and legitimated by) evaluations conducted outside the university Read more...

Christine Musselin Publication date: 2013/06/01
ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: COORDINATION OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

ABSTRACTBoth artificial intelligence and cognitive science pay attention strictly to the individual intelligence unit. In organization theory and management, however, attention is, and should be, focused on the interaction among the intelligence units in an organization.Such interaction among organizational intelligence components is categorized into the following 3 groups,: (1) human-human intelligence interaction, (2) human-machine intelligence interaction, and (3) machine-machine intelligence interaction.It is urged that intelligence “sociology” should be developed for: (1) human-human interface, (2) human-machine interface (“quasi” intelligence sociology), and (3) machine-machine interface (“pseudo” intelligence sociology).S3 (syncretism x symbiosis x synergy) - integration is proposed to indicate the possible directions for development of technology in coordinating the man-machine intelligence interactions.Finally, needs for developing “pseudo” intelligence sociolo Read more...

Takehiko MATSUDA Publication date: 1992/01/01
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