Public Sociology

Michael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. Public Sociology is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century.

Burawoy looks back on the defining moments of his intellectual journey, exploring his pivotal early experiences as a researcher, such as his fieldwork in a Zambian copper mine and a Chicago factory. He recounts his time as a graduate and professor during the ideological ferment in sociology departments of the 1970s, and explores how his experiences intersected with a changing political and intellectual world up to the present. Recalling Max Weber, Burawoy argues that sociology is much more than just a discipline - it is a vocation, to be practiced everywhere and by everyone.

Auteur

Michael Burawoy is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Contenu

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction - The Promise of Sociology

Part One: Theory and Practice

1. Theory: Utopia and Anti-Utopia

2. Practice: The (Di)vision of Sociological Labor

   Part Two: Policy Sociology

3. The Language Question in University Education

4. Job Evaluation in a Racial Order

   Part Three: Public Sociology

5. The Color of Class

6. Student Rebellion

   Part Four: Critical Sociology

7. Race, Class and Colonialism

8. Migrant Labor and the State

9. Manufacturing Consent

10. Racial Capitalism

    Part Five: Professional Sociology

11. Advancing a Research Program

12. Painting Socialism

13. The Great Involution

    Part Six: Real Utopias

14. Third-Wave Marketization

15. Whither the Public University?

16. Living Theory

    Conclusion: Biography Meets History

    Notes

    References

    Index