Michael Burawoy presidential address at the American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting in 2004. Professor Michael Burawoy is the former President of the ASA and former head of the Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley. He gave the presidential speech at the 2004 ASA meeting in San Francisco, which sparked heated discussion with his call for a public sociology. Burawoy's talk focuses on social role and purpose of sociology, and the social sciences in general.
