Burawoy (2005) argues that sociology needs to re-establish a public sociology oriented toward society’s problems and the practice of its unique knowledge if it is to again be taken seriously by the public, policymakers, and others. Yet, it is unclear how best to achieve these goals. We argue that the relatively young field of social gerontology provides a useful model of successful public socio...

This article presents a case study of pavement regulation and usage in nineteenth-century Stockholm, probing how urbanites’ interactions on access to pavements were contested negotiated, the process shaping publicness streets. Utilising press coverage, it moves beyond focus infrastructure political discourse, capture urban dwellers’ perspectives, claims interactions. The shows that, favouring c...

Investigating the structural transformation of public sphere should reckon with secret and its modes organization. The expansion secrecy effected by infrastructures, platforms, applications media technology is constitutive for emergence ‘digital publics’. Offering a rereading Habermas’s Structural Transformation Public Sphere that attuned to organizational principle secrecy, this paper discusse...

Cet article étudie les formes de participation des publics à partir l’étude quatre applications mobiles visite patrimoniale. Leur valorisation s’appuie sur la promesse d’une relation plus moderne, interactive et collaborative avec l’institution patrimoniale, permise par l’utilisation l’application. Si forte peut être instrumentalisée, elle est aussi inscrite dans le design travers différentes f...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to investigate the various aspects of illness perceptions about breast cancer in affected patients. methods: a cross-sectional study enrolled 140 patients with breast cancer in their chemotherapy period within 14 months. the revised illness perception questionnaire (revised ipq) was used to assess the disease representations of breast cancer. the d...

Democratic innovations, such as deliberative mini-publics, are designed to encourage public engagement in policymaking. They increasingly being used inform decision-making on the environment, climate change, and other sustainability issues. Research support for democratic innovations has focused identifying citizens favor understanding whether they “enraged” or “engaged” with politics. However,...