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A Journey of Discovering SociologyInterview 19 Michael Burawoy

A Journey of Discovering Sociology: Interview 19 Michael Burawoy Michael Burawoy Profile: Michael Burawoy is a sociological Marxist, best known as the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capi- talism—a study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languages—and as the leading proponent of public sociology. Burawoy received his BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1968 and then he went on to pursue graduate study in the newly independent African nation of Zambia, while simultaneously working as a researcher for a multinational company, Anglo American corporation. After completing his MA in sociology at the University of Zambia in 1972, he went to the University of Chicago as a doctoral student, working on a sociology dissertation that later become the book Manufacturing Consent.Aside from his sociological study of the industrial workplace in Zambia and Chicago, he also has studied industrial workplaces in Hungary and post-Soviet Russia. Overall, he has looked into the nature of post-colonialism, the organization of state socialism and the problems in the transition from socialism. His method of choice is usually participant observation. Because of his outstanding works, he was elected as the President of the American Sociological Association in 2004 and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Journey of Discovering SociologyInterview 19 Michael Burawoy

Editors: Chen, Long
Burawoy, Michael
A Journey of Discovering Sociology — Aug 14, 2020
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Publisher
Springer Singapore
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© Peking University Press 2020
ISBN
978-981-15-6602-8
Pages
189 –201
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-6603-5_19
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Michael Burawoy Profile: Michael Burawoy is a sociological Marxist, best known as the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capi- talism—a study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languages—and as the leading proponent of public sociology. Burawoy received his BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1968 and then he went on to pursue graduate study in the newly independent African nation of Zambia, while simultaneously working as a researcher for a multinational company, Anglo American corporation. After completing his MA in sociology at the University of Zambia in 1972, he went to the University of Chicago as a doctoral student, working on a sociology dissertation that later become the book Manufacturing Consent.Aside from his sociological study of the industrial workplace in Zambia and Chicago, he also has studied industrial workplaces in Hungary and post-Soviet Russia. Overall, he has looked into the nature of post-colonialism, the organization of state socialism and the problems in the transition from socialism. His method of choice is usually participant observation. Because of his outstanding works, he was elected as the President of the American Sociological Association in 2004 and the

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