Public sociology embraces
diverse, generally populist or non-elitist, praxes through which
sociologists may, concerning various socially constructed issues and
problems, communicate or exemplify their knowledge, values, and
sociological imaginations, whether as change agents or policy activists,
to one or more publics. Students, for their part, can explore public
sociology by engaging in service-learning.
Of persons identifying themselves as public sociologists, most presumably
represent various leftist academic standpoints. For instance, beginning
as thought experimentation and as a component of his Structurization Paradigm™, the publisher of this
website encourages a critical
poststructuralist deconstruction and construction, a dialectic which would, in
part, include the supplanting of Schadenfreude with
social altruism. Nonetheless, there is no reason, in principle, why individuals holding
to other perspectives should be excluded.