TY - CHAP AB - This chapter critically considers two conceptions of sociological labor as they have recently been articulated in two competing visions for public sociology. I use the contrast between Ben Agger's and Michael Burawoy's recent professions of public sociology as a lens through which to critically understand the way in which the narratives produced by sociological labor govern the emergence of knowledge, which would be the basis of transformation. VL - 26 SN - 978-1-84950-606-9, 978-1-84950-605-2/0278-1204 DO - 10.1108/S0278-1204(2009)0000026011 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0278-1204(2009)0000026011 AU - Mooney Nickel Patricia ED - Harry F. Dahms PY - 2009 Y1 - 2009/01/01 TI - Public sociology and the governance of possibility T2 - Nature, Knowledge and Negation T3 - Current Perspectives in Social Theory PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 207 EP - 228 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -