Overview :As one of the leading proponents of the view that sociology's mission must be to engage the world outside of the university, Michael Burawoy... Read More
Overview :In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism--a tradition Bourdieu ostensibly avoided. W... Read More
Overview :Conversations with Bourdieu presents the first comprehensive attempt at a critical engagement with Bourdieus theory as a totality. Pierre B... Read More
Overview :This collection exemplifies the resurgence of Marxist ideas in contemporary social research. Its purpose is neither to cover all the areas o... Read More
Overview :Communism, once heralded as the "radiant future" of all humanity, has now become part of Eastern Europe's past. What does the record say abo... Read More
Overview :Most writing on the dramatic events in the former Soviet Union has been based on the assumption that Russia is engaged in a transition from ... Read More
Overview :In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociol... Read More
Overview :Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months... Read More
Overview :Emancipatory social science in action Erik Olin Wright was one of the most brilliant and world renowned social scientists of our era. He lef... Read More
Overview :In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disrupti... Read More
Overview :The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to ... Read More
Overview :In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers o... Read More