Burawoy in Africa: The Influence of Southern Africa on the Sociology of Michael Burawoy
Critical SociologyIn this tribute, we take a different approach and explore the influence of Southern Africa on Burawoy’s sociology. The influence of Southern Africa on Burawoy began early in his career when he himself was just learning what it meant to be a sociologist and continued to influence him in different ways throughout his life.
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Giving land back or righting wrongs? Comparative issues in the study of land restitution [PDF]
, 2010 Land is a significant and controversial topic in South Africa. Addressing the land claims of those dispossessed in the past has proved to be a demanding, multidimensional process. In many respects the land restitution program that was launched as part of
Fay, Derrick, James, Deborah
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The New 'Hidden Abode': Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy [PDF]
, 2009 This paper engages with the works of Autonomist Marxists, such as Hardt, Negri and Arvidsson, who have argued that the so-called ‘new economy’, which is characterized by a new importance of immaterial labour, knowledge and processes of consumption, gives
Boehm, Steffen, Land, Christopher
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Organizing as Improvisations (Methodological Temptations of Social Constructivism) [PDF]
Academic communities in social sciences are still dominated byneo-positivist paradigm, but communities of practice developing socialconstructivism have started to redress paradigmatic imbalances.According to the latter man-made organizational reality is ...
Magala, S.J.
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Ecología política:relevancia, activismo y posibilidades de cambio [PDF]
, 2015 Los investigadores en ecología política no son los arquitectos de los problemas de medio ambiente y de justicia social que estudian. Su presencia en universidades y debates políticos es el “síntoma de una vasta transición global” en proceso en estos ...
Batterbury, Simon
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Experteninterview zum Thema Public Sociology mit Michael Burawoy
Soziologiemagazin, 2015 Bibliographie : Rudolfi, Markus: Experteninterview zum Thema Public Sociology mit Michael Burawoy, Soziologiemagazin, 1-2015, S. 22-33.
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The politics of media and cultural policy [PDF]
, 2009 This paper considers the role of academics in current debates on media and cultural policy in the UK. Although theories of the intellectuals differ widely as to what such a role might be, they point to a more general issue: the struggle for social ...
Schlesinger, P.
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Présentation de l’article de Michael Burawoy « L’avenir de la sociologie »
Sociologies, 2014 First published in Brym R. (ed.), New Society, 7th Edition, Scarborough, Nelson Education, 2014, translated in French by Carolyne Grimard and Marc-Henry Soulet, and published here with the kind authorization of copyright owners.
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[Path dependency, bifurcation points and the role of sociology. A sociological attempt at interpreting the corona crisisDépendance au sentier, points de bifurcation et le rôle de la sociologie. Une tentative d'interprétation sociologique de la crise du coronavirus]. [PDF]
Berl J Soziol, 2020 Rosa H.
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