Download or read book Sociology and the Public Agenda written by William J. Wilson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-03-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editor of this volume asserts that sociology's ostrich-like stance threatens to leave the discipline in a position of irrelevance to the world at large and compromises the support of policymakers, funders, media and the public. Wilson's vision is of a sociology attuned to the public agenda, influencing public policy through both short and long-range analysis from a sociological perspective. Using a variety of policy issues, perspectives, methods and cases, the distinguished contibutors to this volume both demonstrate and emphasize Wilson's ideas.