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NEW SOCIOLOGY FOR NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Michael Burawoy Federal University of the Urals, December 20, 2012
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ARAB UPRISINGS DISPOSSESSION INDIGNADOS OCCUPY MOVEMENT STUDENT MOVEMENT
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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
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Social Movement Theory Universalism – Collective behavior New Social Movements -- Postindustrialism Third Wave Marketization –Polanyi The Great Transformation
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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
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FIRST WAVE (1795-1914) SECOND WAVE (1914-1974) THIRD WAVE (1974-???) Increasing Marketiz- 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
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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
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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
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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
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