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Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of welfare and poverty research

In: Research Handbook on Public Sociology

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  • Sandro Busso

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The essay focuses on the sociology of social policies, and in particular on the field of poverty research, highlighting some of the biases and trade-offs related to the development of a public sociology in this area. The main argument is that the four souls of sociology have become progressively more distant and that the interactions between them are today more problematics than they used to be, as a consequence of the problems in the selection of the publics and of the proximity with the policy system. This latter element in particular determines a narrowing of the discursive spaces that affects the development of a public sociology of social policies, which would instead require a strong effort towards re-politicization and a renewal on the debate about partisanship in order to overcome existing hierarchies of actors and goals, and to pave the road for “unthinkable politics”.

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  • Sandro Busso, 2023. "Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of welfare and poverty research," Chapters, in: Lavinia Bifulco & Vando Borghi (ed.), Research Handbook on Public Sociology, chapter 18, pages 250-263, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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