The Future of Sociology

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ID7100755
AuthorsM Burawoy (0000-0002-7195-7278, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume56
Issue3
Pages83-98
Publication date2007-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0229 • E-ISSN: 2457-0257
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0038022920070301
OpenAlexW2472748476
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited1

Like a hurricane, third-wave marketisation is picking up velocity and destroying societies in its path, destroying the very grounds upon which sociology grows. Sociology and humanity have a common interest in upholding civil society, and keeping state and market at bay. Working with Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation, I diagnose three waves of marketisation associated with the commodification of labour, money and land, generating counter-movements at local, national and global levels. I argue that sociology is reshaped with each wave: in the first, it is utopian, in the second, it is driven by policy concerns; whereas emerging with the third wave marketisation is public sociology. The possibilities and challenges of public sociology as well as its relation to policy, critical and professional sociology are the subjects of this paper

Epistemology · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Issues and Policies

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