Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTORY -- Introduction -- For Public Sociology -- INSTITUTIONALIZING PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY -- Public Sociology and the End of Society -- Stalled at the Altar? Conflict, Hierarchy, andCompartmentalization in Burawoy's Public Sociology -- If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things -- Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name -- POLITICS AND THE PROFESSION -- Speaking to Publics -- Do We Need a Public Sociology? It Depends on WhatYou Mean by Sociology -- Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power -- The Strength of Weak Politics -- From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist -- FALSE DISTINCTIONS: CONCEPTUAL RESERVATIONS -- The Sociologist and the Public Sphere -- About Public Sociology -- For Humanist Sociology -- INTERDISCIPLINARITY -- Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks,but Who Is Listening? -- A Journalist's Plea -- REJOINDER -- The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.