Description
Product ID: | 9781509519156 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Public Sociology |
Authors: | Author: Michael Burawoy |
Page Count: | 232 |
Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-09-24 |