Critical Moments in Multiculturalism and Public Sociology Portfolio

Jakubowicz, AH

Critical Moments in Multiculturalism and Public Sociology Portfolio

Jakubowicz, AH

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Citation:: The Conversation, 2015
Issue Date:: 2015

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dc.contributor.author	Jakubowicz, AH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0462-7666	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Conversation, 2015	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122173
dc.format	On line journalism	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP120200115
dc.relation.ispartof	The Conversation	en_US
dc.title	Critical Moments in Multiculturalism and Public Sociology Portfolio	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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pubs.rights-statement	“Critical moments in Australian multiculturalism” is a portfolio of eight articles about the state and cultural diversity published in The Conversation. Research background This research is in the field of Public Sociology (1606), particularly Public Sociology. Gouldner (1970) exposed the relation between the domain assumptions of sociologists and their development of theory. Burawoy (2005) describes the challenge of public sociology as “to engage multiple publics in multiple ways“. Schneider et al. (2014) point to the barriers facing public sociology dialogue. The research question of this project is: How does more journalistic writing in Public Sociology allow an academic researcher to learn from their audiences and modify their writing practice for multiple publics? Research contribution The portfolio shows that an iterative and engaged form of Public Sociological writing about multiculturalism and public policy in Australia can identify from online comments the rhetorical strategies and domain assumptions of both neo-liberal and liberal humanist readers. Analyses contribute to writing future articles in ways that draw out their underlying assumptions so that the writer can engage with them – for example, explicitly stating the logics of competing domain assumptions about ‘human nature’. Research significance The 2015 series of eight 800+ word articles for The Conversation has generated 40,000 readers and over 1200 comments. It has provided a public archive of relevant commentary for other public sociologists, and demonstrates the relation between domain assumptions and public discursive engagements on topical yet theoretically inflected issues.	en_US

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