
The article explores the dilemmas accompanying the attempts to apply the principles of Michael Burawoy’s public sociology to research on nationalist movement. It is based on the author’s research on the identity of the Polish nationalist movement’s participants. Biographical narrative interviews were carried out among members of three Polish nationalist organizations: the National Radical Camp, the National Rebirth of Poland and the All-Polish Youth. A division of public sociology into its traditional and organic form seems to be crucial for the discussion on the limitations of public sociology in research on the right-wing movements. The article suggests that organic public sociology in research on right-wing world is possible with some limitations. If researchers find justified the marginal position of the controversial group of the nationalists, they should limit themselves to traditional public sociology in which they do not choose specific audience for the knowledge. Hence, they neither help nationalists nor intentionally harm them.