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