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She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and her PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. B Sari R. Alfi-Nissan b is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University. B José Pereira Coutinho b PhD in sociology (ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon), full member at the Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CITER-UCP) and the Centre for Global Studies (CEG-UAb), invited assistant professor in the PhD program in theology of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP). Her main research interests include sociology of health and illness, health communication, e-health technology adoption, sociology of knowledge. [Extracted from the article]

B Scott W. Allard b is the Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington. His research interests are situated at the intersection of cultural sociology, medical sociology, phenomenology, and the sociology of the senses. B Donatella Della Porta b is a professor of political science, founding dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). [Extracted from the article]

B Jesse Smith b is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography and the Pennsylvania State University. B Tracy Adams b is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and a research associate at the Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa. Her areas of interest include reproduction, medicine, gender and sexualities, cultural demography, science and technology, and economic sociology. B Kassandra Roeser b is a Sociology PhD student at Stanford University. [Extracted from the article]

B Steve Derné b is the Professor of Sociology, State University of New York - Geneseo. B Jeroen van der Waal b is Full Professor of Sociology of Stratification in the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. B Amy Adamczyk b is the Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Programs of Doctoral Study in Sociology and Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. [Extracted from the article]

B Tammy L. Anderson b is a Professor in the University of Delaware's Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the principal investigator of the Delaware Opioid Metric Intelligence Project, funded by the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice. B Catrin Lundström b is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Ethnicity and Migration at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University. She completed her B.A. in Sociology at UC Berkeley in 2003 and earned her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in 2009. B Logan Neitzke-Spruill b is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Delaware, specializing in the areas of sociological theory and the sociology of health and medicine. [Extracted from the article]

B Edwin Amenta b is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include sociology of religion, social movements, and cultural sociology. B Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber b is a sociologist at Boston University School of Theology working in the fields of lived religion, congregational studies, political sociology, and cultural sociology. [Extracted from the article]

In light of ongoing concerns about the relevance of scholarly activities, we ask, what are public ideas and how do they come to be? More specifically, how do journalists and other mediators between the academy and the public use social science ideas? How do the various uses of these ideas develop over time and shape the public careers of these ideas? How do these processes help us understand public ideas and identify their various types? In addressing these questions, we make the case for a sociology of public social science. Using data from newspaper articles that engage with seven of the most publicly prominent social science ideas over the past 30 years, we make three contributions. First, we advance a pragmatic, cultural approach to understanding public ideas, one that emphasizes fit-making processes and applicative flexibility. Second, we define public ideas: social science ideas become public ideas when they are used as objects of interest (being the news), are used as interpretants (making sense of the news), and ebb and flow between these uses as part of an unfolding career. Third, we construct a typology of public ideas that provides an architecture for future research on public social science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]