Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy | |
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| Born | 15 June 1947 England |
| Died | 3 February 2025 (aged 77) Oakland, California, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Making Out on the Shop Floor (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Julius Wilson |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| Sub-discipline | |
| School or tradition | Marxism |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Influenced | Luke Bretherton |
| Website | 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.