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The author discusses the tension between academic research on the one hand, and public discourse in mass media and by laymen on the other hand. He analyzes the non-academic publications that transport academic or scientific research into public discourse, outlines the process of election and editing they undergo, and focuses on the specific problems surrounding sociological knowledge in the public sphere. Sociology, according to the author, is especially difficult to convey to the wide public.

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The article reports on the 2009 activity of the Sociology of Knowledge Section of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS). The four meetings convened covered such topics as structural change in metropolises, the discovery of the new, body and sports sociology, and the culture of communication.

The article recounts the author's experience at a 1981 colloquium on "Phenomenology and Social Science" in Bielefeld, Germany, after which he was given a ride by a fellow student that led to their hours' long mutual critique of the meeting's proceedings, leading in turn to the author's decision to become a practitioner of social scientific hermeneutics.

The article presents a report on the division of the sociology of knowledge within the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie" (DGS; German Society for Sociology). Various membership changes to the division are outlined and details related to a conference on the sociology of visual knowledge is discussed. Plans for a conference on ethnicity, migration, and knowledge are presented.