\u003cp\u003eMichael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. \u003ci\u003ePublic Sociology\u003c/i\u003e is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBurawoy looks back on the defining moments of his intellectual journey, exploring his pivotal early experiences as a researcher, such as his fieldwork in a Zambian copper mine and a Chicago factory. He recounts his time as a graduate and professor during the ideological ferment in sociology departments of the 1970s, and explores how his experiences intersected with a changing political and intellectual world up to the present. Recalling Max Weber, Burawoy argues that sociology is much more than just a discipline - it is a vocation, to be practiced everywhere and by everyone.\u003c/p\u003e
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