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Michael Burawoy

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Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy (15 June 1947 – 3 February 2025) was a British sociologist who worked 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 that has been translated into a number of languages. Burawoy was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the American Sociological Association in 2004. In 2006–2010, he was one of the vice-presidents for the Committee of National Associations of the International Sociological Association (ISA). 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.

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Born
(1947-06-15)15 June 1947England
Died
3 February 2025(2025-02-03) (aged 77)Oakland, California, U.S.
Alma mater
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Thesis
Making Out on the Shop Floor (1976)
Doctoral advisor
William Julius Wilson
Influences
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Discipline
Sociology
Sub-discipline
Industrial sociologypublic sociologysocial theory
School or tradition
Marxism
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Ruth Milkman Robyn Rodriguez Rachel Sherman Ronald Weitzer
Notable works
Manufacturing Consent (1979)"For Public Sociology" (2004)The Extended Case Method (2009)
Notable ideas
Extended case methodpublic sociologypolicy sociology
Influenced
Luke Bretherton
Website
burawoy.berkeley.edu

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Preceded byWilliam T. Bielby
Preceded byWilliam T. Bielby
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byWilliam T. Bielby
Professional and academic associations
President of the American Sociological Association 2004
Professional and academic associations
Succeeded byTroy Duster
Preceded byMichel Wieviorka
Preceded byMichel Wieviorka
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byMichel Wieviorka
Professional and academic associations
President of the International Sociological Association 2010–2014
Professional and academic associations
Succeeded byMargaret Abraham
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byWilliam T. Bielby
President of the American Sociological Association 2004
Succeeded byTroy Duster
Preceded byMichel Wieviorka
President of the International Sociological Association 2010–2014
Succeeded byMargaret Abraham

References

  1. Making Out on the Shop Floor
    https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/4511385
  2. Sociological Research Online
    http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/1/1/1.pdf
  3. Revija za sociologiju
    https://doi.org/10.5613%2Frzs.47.2.3
  4. Studies of Transition States and Societies
    https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-455213
  5. New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
    https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/191948
  6. isa-sociology.org
    https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa/history-of-isa/isa-past-presidents/list-of-presidents/michael-burawoy
  7. MICHAEL BURAWOY
    http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Biography/CV.pdf
  8. The Reproduction of Job Segregation by Sex: A Study of the Changing Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto and Electrical Manufacturing Industries in the 1940s
    https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/223010952
  9. Class Acts: Producing and Consuming Luxury Service in Hotels
    https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/57586295
  10. Annual Review of Sociology
    https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-soc-072320-101856
  11. University Scholars Program
    https://sites.duke.edu/dukeusp/2016/01/05/luke-bretherton-coming-to-judgment-in-a-world-of-difference/
  12. American Journal of Sociology
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/2778550
  13. Cornell Chronicle
    https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2003/09/michael-burawoy-sociologist-who-studies-labor-shop-floor-will-give-2003-polson
  14. The British Journal of Sociology
    https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1468-4446.2005.00059.x
  15. International Sociological Association
    https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa/executive-committee/past-executive-committees
  16. "ISA Presidents"
    http://www.isa-sociology.org/about/presidents/
  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
  19. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:856fc58a-120f-4a51-a569-422e201e9f61/files/mb95789685e6ae1a86fb4b66dd069d095 [bare URL
    https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:856fc58a-120f-4a51-a569-422e201e9f61/files/mb95789685e6ae1a86fb4b66dd069d095
  20. "UJ confers honorary degree on British sociologist, Prof Michael Burawoy"
    https://news.uj.ac.za/news/uj-confers-honorary-degree-on-british-sociologist-prof-michael-burawoy-2/
  21. "Berkeley Sociology creates endowment to honor Professor Emeritus Michael Burawoy | Letters & Science"
    https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/berkeley-sociology-creates-endowment-honor-professor-emeritus-michael-burawoy#:~:text=For%20his%20lifetime%20achievements%2C%20Burawoy%20was%20the%20recipient,exceed%20the%20standards%20of%20excellence%20in%20their%20fields
  22. "2024 ASA Award Winners | American Sociological Association"
    https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/2024-asa-award-winners/
  23. S4P
    https://www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/blog/sociologyfacesthequestion
  24. thesociologicalreview.org
    https://thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/news/michael-burawoy-19472025/
  25. "Oakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersection"
    https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/02/04/oakland-resident-dead-in-hit-and-run-crash-at-intersection/
  26. Berkeleyside
    https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/06/michael-burawoy-uc-berkeley-professor-emeritus-dead?fbclid=IwY2xjawIUbC1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHT8qjDjawOhgO06y5OoqO0dwn9rmycK2IkahsgexBYiaHP0vWalU6Ec0rg_aem_4d3YfWd_GPe0dDT3zJ6fdw
  27. "European Sociological Association"
    https://www.europeansociology.org/event/3219a5a9-c155-4197-b6c0-e693a849e4c8
  28. "Michael Burawoy (1947–2025) - Everyday Society"
    https://es.britsoc.co.uk/michael-burawoy-1947-2025/
  29. "In memoriam of Michael Burawoy. The kind of intellectual society needs today | DF Diario Feminista"
    https://eldiariofeminista.info/2025/02/05/in-memoriam-of-mickael-burawoy-the-kind-of-intellectual-society-needs-today/
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