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NEW SOCIOLOGY FOR NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Michael Burawoy
Federal University of the Urals, December 20, 2012
ARAB UPRISINGS DISPOSSESSION
INDIGNADOS
OCCUPY MOVEMENT
STUDENT MOVEMENT
New Social Movements
1. National Movements, Globally Connected
2. Separation of Power and Politics
3. Democracy: Direct and Horizontal
4. Public and Virtual Space
5. Repression and Liquidity
Social Movement Theory
• Universalism – Collective behavior
• New Social Movements -- Postindustrialism
• Third Wave Marketization– Polanyi The Great Transformation
Reconstructing Polanyi
• Response to Market fundamentalism
• Social Movements Counter-Movements
• BUT MISSED– Possibility of another wave of Marketization– Three waves and their counter-movements– Possibility of no counter-movement
FIRST WAVE(1795-1914)
SECOND WAVE(1914-1974)
THIRD WAVE(1974-???)
IncreasingMarketiz-ation
1848
1795 1873-86
WWII
2008
1989
1834- Poor Law Reform
1933 – Abolition of Gold Standard
Environmental Catastrophe
World War I
1974 – Oil Crisis
Fictitious Commodities and Social Movements
• LABOR: Proletariant Precariat– Indignados
• LAND: Dispossession – Landless, environmental movements
• MONEY: Financial Crisis – Occupy Movement
• KNOWLEDGE: Universities in Crisis – Student Movement
New Sociology
• Theory of Capitalism
• Global Sociology – Comparative history of markets
• New Sociology of Inequality – (Dispossession + Commodification)
• Political Sociology
• Cultural Sociology
• Sociology of Education
• Reflexive Sociology
International Sociological Association
• Professional Organization (Journals, Meetings, PhD Labs)
• Social Media – Universities in Crisis – Global Dialogue – Global Courses
• http://www.isa-sociology.org/• Sociology as a Social Movement