This is a term by Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy is a British, sociological Marxist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalisma study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languagesand as the leading proponent of public sociology...

. It provides the conceptual frameworks and bodies of knowledge without which public sociology

Public sociology

Public sociology is an approach to the discipline which seeks to transcend the academy and engage wider audiences. Rather than being defined by a particular method, theory, or set of political values, public sociology may be seen as a style of sociology, a way of writing and a form of intellectual...

 nor policy sociology

Policy sociology

This is a term coined by Michael Burawoy as a way of providing solutions to social problems. Goals are usually defined by a client, which could be the government. Policy sociology provides instrumental knowledge, that is, knowledge that can be used to solve or help a specific case in the social world...

 could function. Professional sociology is restricted to an academic audience, which one can enter after one is trained in the discipline. Professional sociologists do not interact directly with the public. Within professional sociology there are a number of research programs that solve sets of puzzles regarding the social world. It provides critical sociologists, policy sociologists and public sociologists with frameworks of knowledge to allow them to develop findings in their own specific fields.