Michael Burawoy

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Michael Burawoy
Born (1947-06-15) 15 June 1947 (age 76)
England
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisMaking Out on the Shop Floor[1] (1976)
Doctoral advisorWilliam Julius Wilson[1]
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-discipline
School or traditionMarxism
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students
Notable works
InfluencedLuke Bretherton[11]
Websiteburawoy.berkeley.edu Edit this at Wikidata

Michael Burawoy (born 15 June 1947) is a British sociologist working within Marxist social theory, best known as the leading proponent of public sociology and the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism—a study on the sociology of industry[12] that has been translated into a number of languages.

Burawoy is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.[13][10] He was president of the American Sociological Association in 2004.[14] In 2006–2010, he was one of the vice-presidents for the Committee of National Associations of the International Sociological Association (ISA).[15] In the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology he was elected the 17th President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for the period 2010–2014.[16]

Biography

Burawoy was born on 15 June 1947 in England; his parents had fled Russia and Ukraine, met as students in Leipzig (both having doctorates in chemistry) and arrived in Britain in 1933.

Anglo American PLC. Completing a master's degree at the University of Zambia in 1972, Burawoy enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, finishing a sociology dissertation with an ethnography of Chicago industrial workers, later to become Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism.[12][10]

Burawoy joined the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley in 1976 as an assistant professor.[10] He served as Chair of the Department of Sociology for 1996-98, and 2000-02.[7]

Aside from Burawoy's sociological study of the industrial workplace in Zambia, Burawoy has studied industrial workplaces in

extended case method.[10] For his book The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism (1992) he worked as a furnace operator in a Hungarian steel plant.[13] Based on his studies of the workplace he has looked into the nature of postcolonialism, the organization of state socialism, and the problems in the transition from socialism.[10]

In more recent times, Burawoy has moved away from observing factories to looking at his own place of work—the university—to consider the way sociology is taught to students and how it is put into the public domain. His work on

critical sociology which, like public sociology, produces reflexive knowledge but which is only available to an academic audience, like professional sociology.[14]

Selected works

Books

Author (or co-author)

Collaborative and edited books

  • Marxist Inquiries: Studies of Labor, Class and States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Supplement to the American Journal of Sociology. Edited with Theda Skocpol, 1983
  • Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991 (With ten coauthors)
  • Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the PostSocialist World. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Edited with Katherine Verdery, 1998
  • От Деревянного Парижа к Панельной Орбите: Модель жилищных классов Сыктывкара. (From Timbered Paris to Concrete Orbita: The Structure of Housing Classes in Syktyvkar). Syktyvkar: Institute of Regional Social Research of Komi, 1999 (With Pavel Krotov and Tatyana Lytkina)
  • Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000 (With nine coauthors)

Articles

References

  1. ^
    ProQuest 302822488
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  2. S2CID 73574883
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  3. ISSN 0350-154X
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  4. ISSN 1736-8758
    . Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  5. ^
    ISSN 1715-6718
    . Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  6. ^ a b "ISA Past Presidents | Michael Burawoy". isa-sociology.org. International Sociological Association.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "CURRICULUM VITAE" (PDF). MICHAEL BURAWOY. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  8. ProQuest 303132873
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  9. ProQuest 305343424
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  10. ^
    S2CID 233628256
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  11. ^ Seth, Dev (7 November 2019). "Luke Bretherton: Coming to Judgment in a World of Difference". University Scholars Program. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  12. ^
    JSTOR 2778550
    . Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  13. ^ a b Friedlander, Blaine (29 September 2003). "Michael Burawoy, sociologist who studies labor on shop floor, will give the 2003 Polson Memorial Lecture Oct. 3". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  14. ^
    PMID 15926908
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  15. ^ "Past Executive Committees". International Sociological Association. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  16. ^ "ISA Presidents". International Sociological Association. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  17. ^ "Tripos: mathematics, archaeology, LL.B", The Times, 17 June 1968, p. 17.
  18. ^ See his collaborative work on: Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) and Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

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Professional and academic associations
Preceded by President of the American Sociological Association
2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the International Sociological Association
2010–2014 		Succeeded by
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