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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Education, on topics such as Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Labor Movements and Unions and Social and Cultural Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-7195-7278 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,029
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#904
of 358,040
Works
85
Citations
922
Citations per work
10.8

What does Michael Burawoy research?

Sociology and Political Science: 38.8%Political Science and International Relations: 17.6%Education: 5.9%Public Administration: 5.9%other fields: 31.8%39%top field
Sociology and Political Science38.8%Political Science and International Relations17.6%Education5.9%Public Administration5.9%other fields31.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science39% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations18% of their works
  3. 3Education6% of their works
  4. 4Public Administration6% of their works
  5. 5History5% of their works
  6. 6Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Burawoy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Public Sociology, Social Theory, Capitalism, Colonialism, Cultural Capital, Empire and Labor Movement.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization224 topics
  2. Public Sociology101 topic
  3. Social Theory101 topic
  4. Capitalism72 topics
  5. Colonialism52 topics
  6. Cultural Capital51 topic
  7. Empire52 topics
  8. Labor Movement51 topic
  9. Social Class51 topic
  10. Union Revitalization51 topic
  11. Economy41 topic
  12. Russia41 topic
  13. Imperialism31 topic
  14. Marxism31 topic
  15. Soviet Union31 topic
  16. Stalinism31 topic
  17. Asian American21 topic
  18. Institutional Theory21 topic
  19. Organizational Change21 topic
  20. Transnational21 topic

Where does Michael Burawoy work?

Michael Burawoy's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael Burawoy have?

Science Explorer counts 85 works and 922 citations for Michael Burawoy, ranking #2,029 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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