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Public Sociology

Public Sociology Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia

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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.

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