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 ( ) SECOND WAVE ( ) THIRD WAVE (1974-???) Increasing Marketiz- ation WWII 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 Sociology as a Social Movement