Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy
Born	(1947-06-15)15 June 1947 England, U.K.
Died	3 February 2025(2025-02-03) (aged 77) Oakland, California, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University of Zambia University of Chicago
Thesis	Making Out on the Shop Floor[1] (1976)
Doctoral advisor	William Julius Wilson[1]
Influences	Alvin Gouldner[2][3] Antonio Gramsci[4] Imre Lakatos[5] Adam Przeworski[5] Jaap van Velsen[6]
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Sub-discipline	Industrial sociology public sociology social theory
School or tradition	Marxism
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students	Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo[7] Ruth Milkman Robyn Rodriguez[7] Rachel Sherman Ronald Weitzer[7]
Notable works	Manufacturing Consent (1979) "For Public Sociology" (2004) The Extended Case Method (2009)
Notable ideas	Extended case method public sociology policy sociology
Influenced	Luke Bretherton[8]
Website	burawoy.berkeley.edu

Michael Burawoy (15 June 1947 – 3 February 2025) was a British sociologist. His works were about the Marxist social theory. He was best known for public sociology and for writing Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism.^[9]

Burawoy was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.^[10] He was president of the American Sociological Association in 2004. From 2006 to 2010, he was one of the vice-presidents for the Committee of National Associations of the International Sociological Association (ISA).^[11]

Burawoy was killed after being hit by a car in Oakland, California on 3 February 2025 at the age of 77.^[12]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Burawoy, Michael (December 1976). Making Out on the Shop Floor (PhD thesis). University of Chicago. pp. iii–iv. OCLC 4511385. ProQuest 302822488.
2. ↑ Hollands, Robert; Stanley, Liz (2009). "Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology" (PDF). Sociological Research Online. 14 (1). para. 2.7. doi:10.5153/sro.1839. ISSN 1360-7804. S2CID 73574883.
3. ↑ Matić, Davorka (2017). "The Calling of Sociology: Beyond Value-Detached Professionalism and Partisan Activism". Revija za sociologiju. 47 (2): 179. doi:10.5613/rzs.47.2.3. ISSN 0350-154X.
4. ↑ Aidnik, Martin (2015). "A Sociology for the 21st century? An Enquiry into Public Sociology Reading Zygmunt Bauman". Studies of Transition States and Societies. 7 (2): 9. ISSN 1736-8758. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Varela, Paula (2019). "Manufacturing Consent: A Concern that Lasted 40 Years; Interview with Michael Burawoy". New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry. 10 (2): 28–29. hdl:11336/119533. ISSN 1715-6718. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
6. ↑ "ISA Past Presidents | Michael Burawoy". isa-sociology.org. International Sociological Association.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} "CURRICULUM VITAE" (PDF). MICHAEL BURAWOY. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
8. ↑ Seth, Dev (7 November 2019). "Luke Bretherton: Coming to Judgment in a World of Difference". University Scholars Program. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
9. ↑ Giddens, Anthony (1981). "Review of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism". American Journal of Sociology. 87 (1): 192–194. doi:10.1086/227430. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2778550. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
10. ↑ Friedlander, Blaine (29 September 2003). "Michael Burawoy, sociologist who studies labor on shop floor, will give the 2003 Polson Memorial Lecture Oct. 3". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
11. ↑ "Past Executive Committees". International Sociological Association. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
12. ↑ Harris, Harry. "Oakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersection". East Bay Times. (subscription required)