Public Sociology
- 232 pages
- 9 hours of reading
"Why sociology matters, how sociologists can help the people they study and how it can help us to deal with the crises of the 21st century"--





"Why sociology matters, how sociologists can help the people they study and how it can help us to deal with the crises of the 21st century"--
Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism by outlining the parallels and divergences between Bourdieu's thought and preeminent Marxist theorists including Gramsci, Fanon, Beauvoir, and Freire.
A collection of essays that develop the extended case method by connecting the author's own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of US capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia.
Explores the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. This book shows how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them. schovat popis