Proces dydaktyczno-naukowy i socjologia publiczna - na przykładzie trzech przypadków: Baltimore, Washington DC and West Virginia
The Scientific Thought Process and Public Sociology: A Discussion of Three Cases in Baltimore, Washington DC and West Virginia

Summary/Abstract: The theoretical ideas of Zygmunt Bauman and Michael Burawoy are revisited to form a discussion of professional sociological scientific method and its relationship to various publics. In this theoretical discussion and description of cases it is argued that the sociological method should take the direction of not only an autonomous science with its professional symbolic sociological theoretical devices but that in a globalizing world it is a role for sociology to form the nucleus of thought structure through public instruction that integrates competing forces and continuous abstraction of this globalizing “network” oriented world.1 The essence of sociology is the very foundation in thought structure to integrate with and to manage the network. In this article the experiences of teaching in three diverse settings in the Washington, DC area are discussed to illustrate the potential impact of public sociology on diverse groups of sociology students where the sociological thought is applied with differing results.

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