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As coined by 1988 American Sociological Association (ASA) president, Herbert Gans, a public sociologist is a public intellectual. The popular redefinition of “private troubles” as “public issues,” commonly referred to as the sociological imagination, is a major value of public sociology.

Public sociology may be classified under clinical sociology. According to the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology, sociological practice is a category for clinical and applied sociologies. Public sociologists, as clinicians, address the public. Not all of them are applied researchers.

Other sociologists prefer the political public sociology which was proposed by 2004 ASA president, Michael Burawoy. The owner of this website, however, regards the disunity of partisan politics as a contradiction to effective, inclusive decision making and problem solving.