Knowledge for Whom?

Christian Fleck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Graz in Austria. Andreas Hess is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin in Ireland.

Introduction: Public Sociology in the Making, Christian Fleck, Andreas Hess; Part I Public Intellectuals and their Afterlives:Biography in the Social Sciences: The Case of Marcel Mauss, Marcel Fournier; Chapter 2 Making Sense of Individual Creativity: An Attempt to Trespass the Academic Boundaries of the Sociology of Ideas and Intellectual History, Andreas Hess; Chapter 3 Scholarly Publishing Projects in the Great Depression: The Works of G.H. Mead and the Payne Fund Studies, Daniel R. Huebner; Chapter 4 Psychology and Sociology in the Late 19th Century French Intellectual Field: The Case of the Revue Internationale de Sociologie, Marcia Cristina Consolim; Chapter 5 From Communicative Memory to Non-History – Czech and Polish Narratives of Sociology’s Past, Jaros?aw Kilias; Part II Serving the Public or Serving the State?: Trials and Tribulations of Organizational and State-related Histories; Chapter 6 Research For Whom?: Changing Conceptions of Disciplinarity in the American University, Daniel Gordon; Chapter 7 The Making of “Excellence” in the European Research Area: How Research Funding Organizations Work, Barbara Hoenig; Chapter 8 Using Scientific Knowledge in Policy Making: The Importance of Organizational Culture, Sally Shortall; Chapter 9 Public Sociology in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, Albert Tzeng; Chapter 10 A Chapter in the History of Brazilian Sociology: UNESCO Research about Race Relations and the Unexpected Prejudice against Poles in Curitiba (Paraná), Márcio de Oliveira; Part III Intellectuals and Their Audiences; Chapter 11 Blurring the Boundary Line: The Origins and Fate of Robert Bellah’s Symbolic Realism, Matteo Bortolini; Chapter 12 How Spaces of Opinion Shape Public Intellectuals: A Field-based Approach to Project Syndicate-Op-Eds, Philipp Korom; Chapter 13 The Role of Public Intellectual in the Role-Set of Academics, Ragnvald Kalleberg; Chapter 14 Critics as Cultural Intermediaries, Thomas Crosbie, Jonathan Roberge; Chapter 15 World Sociology: The View from Atlantis, Andrew Abbott;