Practicing Public Sociology in the Classroom:

Perhaps the clearest trend in American sociology over the last several years is toward developing a more “public ” sociology. Very little of all that has been written and debated about public sociology, however, discusses how to promote it in our classrooms. This paper argues that sociology courses are one of the best vehicles by which to develop public sociology. Relying on survey data from a nationally representative sample of high school sociology courses, it examines the kind of sociology that is being taught in high schools