Sociology and Democratic Knowledge: Re-imagining Sociology After the Public University
2:00pm - 4:00pm /
Wednesday 25th November 2015
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
- Dr David Ellis
- Admission: Free to all registered.
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Speaker: Professor John Holmwood (University of Nottingham)
The talk addresses the rise of the public university and its association with a 'citizenship complex' that reconciles, market, bureaucracy and associationalism through an expanded conception of social rights (Parsons; Lockwood). On this understanding, sociology has a particular affinity with an egalitarian societal community and, therefore, the Parsonian emphasis on 'professionalism' has more in common with Burawoy's 'public sociology' oriented to civil society than might otherwise seem to be the case. A problem arises when we recognize that the university is increasingly marketised and reduced to private rather than public interests as part of a general attack on social rights (especially in the US and UK). This is an attack which implicates sociology in its claims both to professional expertise and critique. How might this attack on social rights be understood and what are its implications for the university as a site of knowledge and public reason? How might sociology respond to the challenge?
Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sociology-and-democratic-knowledge-re-imagining-sociology-after-the-public-university-tickets-19204063872
The talk addresses the rise of the public university and its association with a 'citizenship complex' that reconciles, market, bureaucracy and associationalism through an expanded conception of social rights (Parsons; Lockwood). On this understanding, sociology has a particular affinity with an egalitarian societal community and, therefore, the Parsonian emphasis on 'professionalism' has more in common with Burawoy's 'public sociology' oriented to civil society than might otherwise seem to be the case. A problem arises when we recognize that the university is increasingly marketised and reduced to private rather than public interests as part of a general attack on social rights (especially in the US and UK). This is an attack which implicates sociology in its claims both to professional expertise and critique. How might this attack on social rights be understood and what are its implications for the university as a site of knowledge and public reason? How might sociology respond to the challenge?
Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sociology-and-democratic-knowledge-re-imagining-sociology-after-the-public-university-tickets-19204063872