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June 2008 - Volume 2, Issue 1The Social Context of Public Deliberation: Letting Practice Shape Theory by Carolyn M. Hendriks, reviewing Toward a Sociology of Deliberation, by David M. Ryfe Abstract: Too often public deliberation is studied and theorized as a discrete isolated process. It is refreshing therefore to see more attempts to situate deliberation in its socio-political context. One such piece is David M. Ryfe’s contribution to Journal of Public Deliberation (2007) in which he considers the “sociological dimensions of deliberative practice” (p. 1) and in doing so makes a “step toward a more explicit sociology of deliberation” (p. 2). Here I review Ryfe’s ideas not as a sociologist but as a deliberative democrat working on the interface between practice and theory. Citation: Hendriks, C. M. (2008). The social context of public deliberation: Letting practice shape theory. [Review of the article Toward a sociology of deliberation]. International Journal of Public Participation, 2(1), 87-91.
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