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Title: SOCIOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC AGENDA
By: William Julius Wilson (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0803950837
ISBN 13: 9780803950832
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Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Pub. date: 2 March, 1993
Series: American Sociological Association Presidential Series
Pages: 391
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.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: US
Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
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