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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates
ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Manufacturing Consent revisited
The article briefly presents Manufacturing Consent, a 1979 publication directed by Allis Chalmer that deals with the way in which work discipline for manual labourers is organised through coercion and consent, based in particular on the establishment of ...
Michael Burawoy
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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WE ARE LIVING IN A CAPITALIST WORLD
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Michael BURAWOY
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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A sociologia pública em tempos de Barack Obama
O presente artigo, baseado em discurso dirigido à Sociedade Japonesa de Sociologia, na Universidade de Tohoku, recoloca as formulações centrais da sociologia pública, identificando os quatro estilos do fazer sociológico.
Michael Burawoy
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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OS JOGOS QUE OS ACADÊMICOS JOGAM: UMA CONVERSA COM MICHAEL BURAWOY
Michael Burawoy, expresidente de la American Sociological Association y de la International Sociological Association, es uno de los científicos sociales más destaca - dos de inicios del siglo XXI.
Michael Burawoy, Guilherme Nothen
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26 Studierende suchen eine Hochschule – Wege und Irrwege einer Campus Community Partnerschaft
Campus Community Partnerschaften (CCP) fordern von Hochschulen die Entgrenzung und Öffnung gegenüber anderen gesellschaftlichen Akteuren und Akteurinnen.
Linda Vogt, André Bleicher
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