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British Sociological Association
The British Sociological Association (BSA) is a scholarly and professional society for sociologists in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1951, the BSA is the national subject association for sociology in the UK. It publishes the academic journals ''Sociology'', '' Work, Employment and Society, Sociological Research Online'' and ''Cultural Sociology'' (with SAGE Publications) as well as its membership magazine ''Network'' and a monthly eNewsletter. The BSA is a registered charitable company (charity no: 1080235). Its charitable objective is: The advancement of public education by the promotion and diffusion of the knowledge of sociology by lectures, publications, the promotion and publication of research and encouragement of contact between workers in all relevant fields of enquiry. Organisation The activities of the BSA are overseen by the Board of Trustees which is the decision-making body responsible for setting and implementing strategy. An Advisory Forum, including representa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sociologists
This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology. A * Peter Abell, British sociologist * Andrew Abbott, American sociologist * Margaret Abraham, Indian-American sociologist * Mark Abrams (1906–1994), British sociologist, political scientist and pollster * Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013), American sociologist * Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer * Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist * Richard Alba (1942–2025), American sociologist * Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist * Martin Albrow, British sociologist * Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist * David Altheide, American sociologist * Louis Althusser, French philosopher and sociologist * Edwin Amenta, American sociologist * Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist * Elijah Anderson, American sociologist * E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Hall (cultural Theorist)
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, Cultural Studies, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall – along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential journal ''New Left Review''. At Hoggart's invitation, he joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham in 1964. Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the CCCS in 1968, became its director in 1972, and remained there until 1979. While at the centre, Hall is credited with playing a role in expanding the scope of cultural studies to deal with race and gender, and with helping to incorporate new ideas derived from the work of French theorists such as Michel Foucault. Hall left the centre in 1979 to become a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Humphrey Marshall
Thomas Humphrey Marshall (19 December 1893 – 29 November 1981) was an English sociologist who is best known for his essay " Citizenship and Social Class," a key work on citizenship that introduced the idea that full citizenship includes civil, political, and social citizenship. Biography T. H. Marshall was born in London on 19 December 1893 to a wealthy, artistically cultured family (a Bloomsbury family). He was the fourth of six children. His great-grandfather acquired an industrial fortune and his father, William Cecil Marshall, was a successful architect, giving Marshall a privileged upbringing and inheritance. He attended Rugby School, a public boarding school and then read history at Trinity College, Cambridge. Marshall was a civilian prisoner in Germany during the First World War. In October 1919 he gained a fellowship at Trinity College, becoming a professional historian. This was interrupted when he became the Labour candidate for Farnham in the 1922 election. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bottomore
Thomas Burton Bottomore (8 April 1920, England – 9 December 1992, Sussex, England) was a British Marxist sociologist. Bottomore was Secretary of the International Sociological Association from 1953 to 1959. He was the eighth president of ISA (1974-1978). He was a prolific editor and translator of Marxist works, notably his collections published in 1963: ''Marx's Early Writings'' and ''Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy''. He was Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics from 1952 to 1964. He was head of the Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver from 1965 to 1967, leaving after a dispute over academic freedom. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex from 1968 to 1985. Bottomore edited and contributed to numerous journals of sociology and political science, and edited ''A Dictionary of Marxist Thought'' in 1983 and co-edited (with William Outhwaite) ''The Blackwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Worsley
Peter Maurice Worsley (6 May 1924 – 15 March 2013) was a noted British sociologist and social anthropologist. He was a major figure in both anthropology and sociology, and is noted for introducing the term ''Third World'' into English. He not only made theoretical and ethnographic contributions, but also was regarded as a key founding member of the New Left.Peel, JDY (2013) Peter Worsley obituary: Sociologist who did much to define the idea of a 'third world', ''The Guardian'', Thursday 28 March (Accessed April 2013) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Allen (sociologist)
Sheila Allen ( McKenny; 2 November 1930 16 January 2009) was an English sociologist and academic. She was Professor of Sociology at the University of Bradford from 1972 to 1999, and served as president of the British Sociological Association from 1975 to 1977. Career The daughter of John and Marjorie McKenny, Sheila McKenny was born on 2 November 1930 in Gilberdyke, East Yorkshire, but grew up in Lincolnshire. Her father was chronically unemployed and the family struggled financially during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Her mother valued education and Sheila won a scholarship at the girls' grammar school in Sleaford ( Kesteven and Sleaford High School); she was the first in her family to attend a grammar school (her parents had been unable to afford her brother's uniform when he won a place at the boys' equivalent), and went from there to the London School of Economics to read sociology – a venture her father considered "pointless" for a woman but which her m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Kelsall
Roger Keith Kelsall (23 January 1910 – 1 May 1996), commonly known by his middle name Keith, was a Scottish sociologist and academic. He held the first Chair in Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield from 1960 to 1975. Life Roger Keith Kelsall was born at Milngavie in Scotland on 23 January 1910, the son of a Scottish civil engineer and his English wife. He attended Kelvinside Academy, then the University of Glasgow where he studied history and political economy. After briefly working for the Distribution Society and as a tutor at Bonar Law College, Kelsall was appointed an assistant lecturer at Hull University College in about 1935. In 1942, he moved to the new Ministry of Town and Country Planning; after the Second World War, he worked under David Glass at the London School of Economics on Glass's study of social mobility. In 1951, Kelsall was involved in the establishment of the British Sociological Association; in 1956, he joined the University of Sheffield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eldridge (sociologist)
John Eric Thomas Eldridge (17 May 1936 – 24 December 2022) was a British sociologist known for his writings on Industrial Sociology and on Max Weber as well as for being a founding member of the media analysis research group the Glasgow Media Group. Eldridge was a professor emeritus at the University of Glasgow and a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Strathclyde He was President of the British Sociological Association from 1979 to 1981. Eldridge was born in Southampton on 17 May 1936 to Hetty (née Bartlett) and Edo (Thomas) Eldridge. He was their only child. As a child he lived through the blitz on the city during the Second World War. He attended Taunton's School, Southampton and became the English junior chess champion as a schoolboy. He gained a BSc (Econ) from the University of London at the then University College, Leicester and an MA from Leicester University. He married Rosemary North in 1960; after she died in 1997, he married Christine Reid in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Stacey
Professor Margaret "Meg" Stacey (27 March 1922 – 10 February 2004) was a British sociologist and a leading figure in the establishment of Sociology as an academic discipline. Early life and education She was born Margaret Petrie, in London on 27 March 1922. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a manufacturer and printer. She studied at the City of London School for Girls. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1943 with a first class honours degree in sociology. Career She was a leading figure in establishing sociology as an academic discipline, helping shape British empirical sociology. She was one of the creators of medical sociology as a distinct academic field. She was a key contributor to the reconceptualisation of medicine as a healing system in a wider societal context, rather than simply concerned with the interactions in the clinic; a ' sociology of health and healing', rather than 'medical sociology'. Her work in the sociology of health and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brown (sociologist)
Richard Brown or Browne may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Richard Browne (fl 1614–1629), English composer and organist * Richard Browne (c.1630–1664), English composer and organist * Richard Browne (d. 1710), English composer and organist * Richard "Rabbit" Brown (1880–1937), early US blues musician and composer * Richard Shaw Brown (born 1947), lead singer of The Misunderstood * Rich Brown (blues musician), American blues musician and singer * Richard Browne (painter) (1776–1824), early Australian convict artist and illustrator * Richard Brown (producer), Scottish television producer * Richard Brown, British musician, original drummer for the new wave-post-punk band Modern English Sportsmen * Richard Brown (cricketer) (1811–?), English cricketer and clergyman * Richard Brown (footballer) (born 1967), retired English footballer * Richard Brown (rugby union) (born 1984), Australian rugby union footballer * Richard Brown (linebacker) (born 1965), former American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on globalisation, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He was a full-time faculty member at Reading University, University College Cardiff and Roehampton University. Career Albrow was appointed in 1963 as the first full-time sociologist at Reading University, and subsequently worked at University College Cardiff, where he was Head of Department, and at Roehampton University. He has also held visiting or guest positions at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the London School of Economics, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the University of Bonn. Albrow was President of the British Sociological Association from 1985 to 1987, and the editor-in-chief of its journal ''Sociology'' from 1981 to 1984. Additionally, he was the founding editor of the International Sociological Association's journal, '' International Sociology''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Platt
Jennifer Platt FAcSS is a sociologist who is emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex, where she taught from 1964 to 2002. She has been President of the British Sociological Association in 1987–89, and edited its journal ''Sociology'' for 1985–87. She was a member of the International Sociological Association's (ISA) executive from 1994 to 2002. Her research interests in the history of sociology have been reflected in her terms as Secretary and President of the ISA's Research Committee on the History of Sociology, as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on the History of Sociology, In 2002 she became an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. , ''Social Sciences Bulletin'', issue 4, November 2004, p. 4. |
