Sociology and the Public Agenda

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Sociology and the Public Agenda is written by William J. Wilson and published by SAGE. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0803950837 (ISBN 10) and 9780803950832 (ISBN 13).

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.