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Reading public sociology with Burawoy amounts to an engagement with the process of being and becoming a sociologist. The blending of text and context offers a hermeneutics in which theory and theorist are political actors striving for dialectic of utopia and anti-utopia. In such a scheme this article turns inward to the context of sociology and anthropology in South Asia to adjudge the limits and possibility of public sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the intellectual efforts to implement Western sociology into a Korean context during the country's dynamic modernization. Three different types of responses are explored from the perspective of indigenization: historical sociology, critical sociology, public sociology, and comprehensive sociology. They suggest different approaches and strategies with their own research topics and academic activities. Although the simple dichotomy between Western universalism and Korean particularism is no longer presumed, intellectual efforts for indigenization remain an ongoing issue in Korean sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review essay discusses decolonial and revisionist approaches to the sociological canon, centring on a major new work, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory by Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood (2021). The challenge to 'classical' social theory and the demand to reconstitute the theory curriculum come in the context of increased visibility for wider decolonial agendas, linked to 'fallist' protests in South Africa, Black Lives Matter and allied antiracist organizing, and calls to decolonize public and civic spaces and institutions such as universities, effect museum restitution, and colonial reparations. The review identifies continuities and complementarities with Connell's critique of the sociological canon, though Colonialism and Modern Social Theory takes a different tack from Connell's Southern Theory (2009). Bhambra and Holmwood's opening of sociology's canon converges with Connell's recent work to align a critical project of global and decolonial public sociology with a pragmatic programme for doing academic work differently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review article assesses recent developments and perspectives in the history of sociology as evidenced in two recently published conference volumes emanating from the ISA Research Committee on History of Sociology. Both these volumes address questions arising from recent debates in the discipline about the nature and role of sociology in the public domain. The article argues that history of sociology is ‘coming of age’ in the richness of topics, and varieties of methodological approaches and perspectives used in attempts more firmly to ground the sociological enterprise in its changing cultural and geographic contexts. The article also raises critical questions about the role of the history of sociology in contributing to a sharpened understanding of the complex and contradictory role of sociology in relation to its publics, and to the meaning of globalization in social science, both in theory and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including public sociology, populism and sociological knowledge.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including public sociology, collective identity and communal conflict.