Hartmann, Douglas. "Re-Claiming the Sociological Imagination: A Brief Overview and Guide." Forthcoming in Bureaucratic Culture and Basic Social problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination, edited by Bernard Phillips. Paradigm Publishing.
Calhoun, Craig and Troy Duster. 2005. “The Visions and Divisions of Sociology.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 12: B7-B8.
Bellah, Robert, et al. 1985. “Social Science as Public Philosophy.” Pp. 297-307 in The Habits of the Heart. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gans, Herbert J. 1997. “Best-Sellers by Sociologists: An Exploratory Study.” Contemporary Sociology, 26 (2): 131-135.
Coontz, Stephanie. 2005. "Putting on a Public Face." Contexts, Fall: 78-79.
Wilensky, Harold I. 2005. "Can Social Science Shape the Public Agenda?" Contexts, Spring: 41-47.
Part 1 (“Dokte Paul”), Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Burawoy, Michael. 2004. “Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities.” Social Forces, 82 (4): 1603-1618.
Part II (“The Tin Roofs of Cange”), Mountains Beyond Mountains (to be completed by week 5).
Stoecker, Randy and Edna Bonacich. 1992. “Why Participatory Research? Guest Editors’ Introduction.” The American Sociologist, 23 (4): 5-14.
Kleidman, Rob. 2006. “Public Sociology and Community Organizing.” Applied Social Science, 1 (1).
Aminzade, Ronald. 2004. “The Engaged Department: Public Sociology in the Twin Cities.” Footnotes, November: p. 9.
Uggen, Christopher. 2005. “Public Criminologies and Sociological Education.” Sociograph, Spring: p. 7.
Boyte, Harry C. “The Struggle against Positivism: Academics can be Public Intellectuals but They Can’t Pose as “Experts.” Academe, July-August, 2000: 44-52
Part III (“Medicos Aventureros”), Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Maris, Peter. 1990. “Witnesses, Engineers, or Storytellers? Roles of Sociologists in Social Policy.” Pp. 75-87 in Sociology in America, edited by Herbert Gans. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications.
Part IV (“A Light Month for Travel”), Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Charon, Joel M. 2004. “Is Sociology Important? The Necessity for a Critical Understanding of Society.” Pp. 284-297 in Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.
Berger, Bennett M. 1990. A chapter from Authors of Their Own Lives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ault, Brian. 1999. “View from the Inside: The Disabling Structures of Graduate Education.” Pp. 496-502 in The Social Worlds of Higher Education, edited by Bernice A. Pescosolido and Ronald Aminzade. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Pine Forge Press.
Charon, Joel M. 2004. “Does the Individual Really Make a Difference?” Pp. 212-242 in Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.
Part V (“O for the P”), Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Loeb, Paul Rogat. 1999. Introduction (pp. 1-13) and Ch. 1 (pp. 14-33) from Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time.
Gitlin, Todd. 2003. “On Duty, Love, and Adventure, or Some Leaps of Faith.” Pp. 1-7 in Letters to a Young Activist.
