Public Sociology

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Michael Burawoy. Public Sociology

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Guide

Pages

Epigraph

Public Sociology. Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia

Copyright Page

Tables

Preface

Introduction The Promise of Sociology

Note

Part One Theory and Practice

1 Theory Utopia and Anti-Utopia

The Canon That Was

Reconstructing the Canon

2 Practice The (Di)vision of Sociological Labor

From Professional Sociology to Public Sociology

From Policy Sociology to Critical Sociology

Defining Four Sociologies

Competition in the National and Global Arenas

Sociology’s Standpoint: Civil Society

Part Two Policy Sociology

3 The Language Question in University Education

4 Job Evaluation in a Racial Order

Part Three Public Sociology

5 The Color of Class

6 Student Rebellion

Part Four Critical Sociology

7 Race, Class, and Colonialism

8 Migrant Labor and the State

Note

9 Manufacturing Consent

10 Racial Capitalism

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Part Five Professional Sociology

11 Advancing a Research Program

12 Painting Socialism

13 The Great Involution

Part Six Real Utopias

14 Third-Wave Marketization

Notes

15 Whither the Public University?

Unmaking the Public University

Fiscal Crisis

Governance Crisis

Identity Crisis

Legitimation Crisis

The Future

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16 Living Theory

Notes

Conclusion Biography Meets History

References

Index

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Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

—Max Weber

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Part Five describes my own trajectory into professional sociology. It opens with a series of flukes that landed me a position at Berkeley. This was as radical a department of sociology as you could find in the US, but it was still driven by the imperatives of the discipline. To survive I had to develop a research program – both a methodology and a theory – that could advance Marxism within professional sociology. What was at stake was not only the advance of a Marxist science, not only my own survival, but also securing jobs for my students. To establish some sort of legitimacy for Marxism I had to respond to mainstream critics of my research. Among other things, they were skeptical of the generality of my claims based on the study of a single factory. They doubted that my experiences in my Chicago factory were a function of capitalism rather than modern industrialism. I responded by developing the “extended case method” but also turning, once again, to working in factories, this time in socialist Hungary. There I identified their specifically socialist organization of labor, their specifically socialist production politics, and how they harbored a real utopia of democratic socialism. There were similarities between socialist and capitalist production, but there were also fundamental differences.

History took an unexpected turn. In 1989, while I was working away in the Lenin Steel Works (LKM), then the biggest and oldest steel mill in Hungary, state socialism crumbled. The democratic socialism I had envisioned from within the furnaces of LKM was never a serious contender; instead state socialism gave way to a destructive capitalism. That transition was not what I had come to Hungary to study. So I migrated to the still-standing high command of state socialism, to become a worker in the Soviet Union. But not for long. It was 1991 and the Soviet Union was itself in flux, about to sink into an extortionate merchant capitalism. From their lofty perch the Western economists were debating whether the transition to capitalism should be a revolutionary break with communism (shock therapy) or an evolutionary movement built through the creation of new supportive institutions. From where I was, in the factory, all I could see was the post-Soviet economy’s self-destructive involution. The realm of exchange was flourishing but it came at the cost of production – out of the planned economy arose barter, mafia, and banks eating away at industry and agriculture. A few were making enormous gains, while the vast majority sank into precarity. Utopian thinking – mine as well as theirs – was dashed, once again, on unseen rocks.

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