The prominent sociologist, writer, and U.C. Berkeley professor emeritus Michael Burawoy passed away on February 3. We present excerpts from three interviews with Burawoy, about marketization and commodification (from 2016), Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx (2019), and W. E. B. Du Bois’s understanding of the period of Reconstruction (2023).

In Memoriam: Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy, Public Sociology Polity, 2021

Full-length interviews with Burawoy about marketization and commodification, Bourdieu and Marx, and Du Bois (Part 1 and Part 2)

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