Professor Burawoy was a world-renowned sociologist known for his contributions to sociological theory, sociological methods, analyses of labor processes in industrial worksites, analyses of the university as a place of work, and for his work to advance public sociology. His scholarship, graduate mentorship, undergraduate teaching, and professional leadership profoundly shaped the Berkeley sociology department, the discipline, the profession, the university, and sociological practice around the globe.
Professor Chodorow’s revolutionary theories on feminism and gender bridged the fields of sociology and psychoanalysis. She studied how mothering shapes psychological development and social roles, suggesting links between girls’ gender development and the strength of their relationship with their mother, among other topics.
Lauren Edelman
Professor Edelman was the Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research addressed the interplay between organizations and their legal environments, focusing on employers’ responses to and constructions of civil rights laws, workers’ mobilization of legal rights, the impact of management practices on law and legal institutions, dispute resolution in organizations, school rights, empirical critical race studies, empirical sociolegal studies, and employer accommodations of disabilities in the workplace.
Professor Edelman was the Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research addressed the interplay between organizations and their legal environments, focusing on employers’ responses to and constructions of civil rights laws, workers’ mobilization of legal rights, the impact of management practices on law and legal institutions, dispute resolution in organizations, school rights, empirical critical race studies, empirical sociolegal studies, and employer accommodations of disabilities in the workplace.