Chapter 1: Redefining the Nature and Future of Sociology: Toward a Holistic Sociology -- Part I: EXPLORING AND ELABORATING THE HOLISTIC MODEL -- Chapter 2: Burawoy's Holistic Sociology and Sorokin's "Integralism": A Conversation of Ideas -- Chapter 3: Rethinking Burawoy's Public Sociology: A Post-Empiricist Reconstruction -- Chapter 4: Social Justice and Critical Public Sociology -- Chapter 5: Public Sociology and the Future: The Possible, the Probable, and the Preferable -- Chapter 6: The Scientific System of Public Sociology: The Exemplar of Pitirim A. Sorokin's Social Thought -- Part II: Establishing and Perfecting the Model -- Chapter 7: A Sociology for Public Sociology: Some Needed Disciplinary Changes for Creating Public Sociology -- Chapter 8: Some Suggested Standards for Distinguishing between Good and Bad Public Sociology -- Chapter 9: On Writing Public Sociology: Accountability through Accessibility, Dialogue, and Relevance -- Chapter 10: Recapturing the Sociological Imagination: The Challenge for Public Sociology -- Part III: Teaching and Public Sociology -- Chapter 11: Presenting Sociology's Four "Faces": Problems and Prospects for the High School Course -- Chapter 12: Teaching and Public Sociology -- Part IV: The Practice of Organic Public Sociology: Case Studies -- Chapter 13: From Data to Drama: Returning Research to Convicted Survivors -- Chapter 14: Integrating the Four Sociologies: The "Baigou Project" in China -- Chapter 15: Becoming Public Sociology: Indigenous Nations, Dialogue, and Change -- Chapter 16: Talking about Racial Disparities in Imprisonment: A Reflection on Experiences in Wisconsin -- Chapter 17: Public Membership on Medical Licensing Boards: An Integrated Public and Professional Project -- Chapter 18: Counting the Deaths in Darfur: Pitfalls on the Pathway to a Public Sociology.

Part V: Special Fields and Public Sociology -- Chapter 19: Engaged Social Movement Scholarship -- Chapter 20: Public Sociology and Universal Human Rights -- Chapter 21: Altruism, Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation as Public Sociology -- Chapter 22: A Public Sociology for a Global Age: Recovering the Political -- Chapter 23: Global Altruism: Some Considerations -- Chapter 24: Futures in the Making: Sociological Practice and Challenge -- Part VI: Future Directions -- Chapter 25: The Public Sociology Wars -- About the Contributors.