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标题：CCTV SURVEILLANCE AND THE CIVIC CONVERSATION: A STUDY IN PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
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作者：Dan Lett ; Sean Hier ; Kevin Walby 等
期刊名称：Canadian Journal of Sociology
印刷版ISSN：1710-1123
出版年度：2010
卷号：35
期号：3
页码：437-462
语种：English
出版社：Department of Sociology, University of Alberta
摘要：The captivating idea of ‘public sociology’ has recently been debated across the social sciences. Although the debate has raised significant questions about the status of sociological knowledge production, insufficient attention has been devoted to thinking about how sociologists concretely enter into a civic conversation through the research process. Addressing this gap in the public sociology literature, we present partial findings from a Canada-wide investigation of how public-area streetscape video surveillance systems are implemented in various communities to think through some of the implications of actually doing public sociology. Data gleaned from focused group interviews in the City of Kelowna, British Columbia are presented to explore the challenges of facilitating a civic conversation about public policy on streetscape video surveillance.
关键词：public sociology;public-area video surveillance;Burawoy;focus groups;public opinion;CCTV