Public Sociology and Public Sphere: Toward an Alternative Narrative for Public Sociology and Applying it in Iran

What should be the characteristics of public sociology in Iran? This normative question is important¡ since public sociology is still in its early stages in our country. To me the roots of public sociology are in the public sphere. Therefore¡ I will review the major theoretical perspectives on public sphere¡ including Haberma’s and Arendt’s t perspectives. Then I will focus on Burawoy’s narration for public sociology and compare it with those perspectives in order to propose an alternative narration. In the second section of the paper¡ I will review the institutional and non-institutional part of the public sphere in Iran. This paper claims that Iranian public sphere is in harmony with Arendt’s perspective. At the end¡ based on the characteristics of Iranian public sphere¡ I will propose an outline of public sociology in the above society¡ and mention its theoretical and methodological aspects.