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Complex entanglements: Moving from policy to public sociology in the Arab world
Full text linkIn this article, the author surveys his own career to illustrate some of the dilemmas of research, especially when it assumes a critical and public face. He shows how his work on Palestinian refugees, their socioeconomic rights, their right of return and their camps evolved toward complex forms of traditional and organic public sociology. The article concludes with reflections on one of the major dilemmas researchers face: conducting public research without losing its critical edge, even toward the deprived groups it seeks to protect. The moral of the story: good scientists are not always popular. © The Author(s) 2014.Adorno T, 1980, ADORNO READER, P239; Burawoy M, 2005, AM SOCIOL REV, V70, P4; Government of Lebanon, 2008, COMM CHALL SHAR RESP; Hale CR, 2006, CULT ANTHROPOL, V21, P96, DOI 10.1525-can.2006.21.1.96; Hanafi S, 2012, IDAFAT, V20-21, P4; Hanafi S, 2011, CURR SOCIOL, V59, P291, DOI 10.1177-0011392111400782; Wolff KH, 1992, RENAISSANCE SOCIOLOG, P2010
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