# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-burawoy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:15:08.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-burawoy"
name: "Michael Burawoy"
slug: "michael-burawoy"
description: "Michael Burawoy was an American sociologist who worked within Marxist social theory, best known as the leading proponent of public sociology and the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism—a study on the sociology of industry that has been translated into a number of languages."
tagline: "Sociological Marxist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Burawoy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1947-06-15"
deathDate: "2025-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://burawoy.berkeley.edu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump