Local Cosmopolitanism
This debate between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy is richly rewarding and long overdue. They are among the world’s best sociological theorists, but their dialogue is important, paradoxically, not because it is filled with spanking new ideas. To the contrary, their divergences are tried and true, as old as social thinking itself. It is, of course, precisely because these issues will not go away that the debate between them must be periodically...