Public Sociology Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia

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.

ISBN:	9781509519156
Publisher:	Polity Press
Imprint:	Polity Press
Published date:	24 Sep 2021
DEWEY:	301
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	232
Weight:	346g
Height:	138mm
Width:	216mm
Spine width:	46mm

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