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Direct linkLight, Donald W. – Social Forces, 2005
The derivative nature of public sociology resting on academic research and theory is widely perceived as a central challenge to establishing its legitimacy for faculty recruitment, promotion and graduate training. While public sociology can be derivative, it need not be. This brief essay explains how, with three illustrations of large public…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Educational Sociology, Graduate Study, Educational Research
