A post-secular reading of public sociology

There are two theses originally put forward by Michael Burawoy but which still need to be highlighted; the first is the necessity of challenging the assumed neutrality of the social sciences and the second is the necessity of public engagement in the form of encouraging co-practice in society. Buraw...

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Auteur principal: Hashemi, Morteza (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Sage [2016]
Dans: Social compass
Année: 2016, Volume: 63, Numéro: 4, Pages: 461-477
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Burawoy, Michael 1947- / Postsécularisme / Sciences sociales / Religion / Débat / Impartialité
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
ZA Sciences sociales
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:There are two theses originally put forward by Michael Burawoy but which still need to be highlighted; the first is the necessity of challenging the assumed neutrality of the social sciences and the second is the necessity of public engagement in the form of encouraging co-practice in society. Burawoy suggests public sociology should play a role in the struggle to protect humanity against the tyranny of the market. I tend to challenge this by arguing that a post-secular and post-neutrality public sociology could only work as a frame of dialogue about the priority of each struggle. Otherwise, it can be easily turned into a target for the criticism of those who do not share the interest in Burawoy’s preferred struggle. The article would also suggest that Ali Shariati’s political rereading of religious ideas not only to adapt to the modern world but also to transform it makes this Iranian intellectual a classic figure of the traditional post-secular public sociology.
ISSN:1461-7404
Contient:Enthalten in: Social compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0037768616663983