Michael Burawoy email: [email protected] His projects attempted to illuminate, in turn, the contradictions of postcolonialism; the organization of consent to advanced capitalism; the peculiar forms of class consciousness and work organization under state socialism; and, finally, the dilemmas of the Soviet transition to capitalism .

MICHAEL BURAWOY Home Address 320 Lee St., Apt. 1002, Oakland, CA 94610. E-mail: [email protected] University Address Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Telephone: 510-643-1958 . Education B.A. Mathematics, University of Cambridge, England, 1968. M.A. Sociology, University of Zambia, 1972.

Michael Burawoy. Public Sociology. Books Papers Symposia Applications Videos . PUBLIC SOCIOLOGIES. Books | Papers | Symposia| Critiques|Videos THE IDEA. My idea of public sociology was inspired by the research and engagement of colleagues at Berkeley, and then beyond Berkeley by sociologists ranging from outlaws such as Robert Lynd, C. Wright Mills and Alvin Gouldner to Presidents of the ...

MICHAEL BURAWOY ThepostcommunistagecallsforaSociologicalMarxismthatgivesprideofplaceto society alongside but distinct from state and economy. This Sociological Marxism can be traced to the writings of Gramsci and Polanyi. Hailing from different social worlds and following different Marxist traditions, both converged on a similar cri-

Michael Burawoy is the President of International Sociological Association and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. This essay is based on his Address to the Philippine Sociological Society at its National Conference, October 2012.

Michael Burawoy. Public Sociology. Books Papers Symposia Applications | COLLECTIONS ON PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY. Neil McLaughlin, Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology (Bristol University Press, 2023)

Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract To face an unequal world requires us to interpret and explain it, to be sure, but also to engage it, that is, to recognize that we are part of it and that we are partly responsible for it. In other words, inequality is not just something external to us, but also invades our own world.

Michael Burawoy University of California–Berkeley Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public sociologies should not be left out in the cold, but brought into the framework of our discipline.

new idea of sociology. Burawoy’s sociology aims at combining a realistic investigation in the interests and dispositions of social actors with utopian imaginaries of contemporary culture. Key words: Michael Burawoy; social theory; sociological Marxism; public sociology; class Without a doubt Michael Burawoy is one of the most recognized contempo-

LIVING THEORY "Living Theory" (Contemporary Sociologist, 2013.Debate with Alan Sica about teaching theory) "Living Theory: Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Theory Ethnographically" (Teaching Sociology, 2016) by Chris Herring,.Manuel Rosoldo, Josh Seim, and Benjamin Shestakofsky I have been teaching “The History of Sociological Theory” since I arrived in Berkeley in 1976.