the applied social sciences can be seen as complementary knowledge that enrich both the action and the academic sciences. The objectives of ASS are to deepen reflection on practical issues related to their objective, to support the major decision making in society and enable researchers to support their knowledge and enrich the range of possible solutions. The "action research" is the framework of choice for applied social sciences. Action research can be defined here as a process that involves further intervention by the researcher beyond the return of a single diagnostic assay type, or inventory. The researcher may, in this way, have several hats within the same search: A role of developer issues, logical actions and issues of different actors, An expert who accompanies the action from his methodology and science role A facilitator role pilot working groups and aims, as and when the progress of its work, its analyzes to confront the realities of stakeholders power feed, A mediator who brings out back and speak different stakeholders of an action system A role of facilitator who can help build collective courses of action relevant while remaining outside issues discussed. The methodological tools of the SSA are: Qualitative approaches (different types of interviews and / or collective) Quantitative methods using questionnaires and / or literature searches, data processing statistics The analysis of practices Action research Participatory methods Notable applied, public, and clinical sociologists Jane Addams John G. Bruhn Elizabeth J. Clark W. E. B. Du Bois Jonathan A. Friedman Jan M. Fritz C. Margaret Hall Rand L. Kannenberg Abdelwahab Ben Hafaiedh Roger A. Straus Lester F. Ward Tressie McMillan Cottom Michael Eric Dyson Melissa Harris-Perry Cornel West See also Public anthropology Sociotherapy Sociologists Without Borders, international organization Public Criminology References Further reading Agger, Ben (2007). Public Sociology: From Social Facts to Literary Acts (2nd edition ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. . . Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven Tipton. 1985. Habits of the Heart. Berkeley: University of California Press. C. Wright Mills. 1959 (2000). The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press. Burawoy, Michael: "For Public Sociology" (American Sociological Review, February 2005) Burawoy, Michael: "The Critical Turn to Public Sociology" (Critical Sociology, Summer 2005) Deflem, Mathieu. Public Sociology, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet. The Journal of Professional and Public Sociology 1(1), 2005. Deflem, Mathieu. Comment (on public sociology). Contemporary Sociology 34(1):92-93, 2005. Fatsis, L. (2014)