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British Sociological Association
The British Sociological Association (BSA) is a scholarly and professional society for sociologists in the United Kingdom, and was founded in 1951. It publishes the academic journals ''Sociology'', '' Work, Employment and Society, Sociological Research Online'' and '' Cultural Sociology'' (with SAGE Publications) as well as its membership newsletter ''Network'' and a monthly eNewsletter. Formerly, the ''British Journal of Sociology'' was the BSA's official journal, but it was replaced by ''Sociology'' some years after the latter had been established. It is a registered charitable company (charity no: 1080235) which states its mission is to "represent the intellectual and sociological interests of our members." Organisation The activities of the BSA are co-ordinated by an Advisory Forum charged with overseeing governance, membership services and publications. Decisions are monitored and ratified by the Board of Trustees, which includes the BSA president. An office of 12 staff m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sociologists
This is a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory and research, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least some of their work is defined as being specifically sociological in nature. A * Peter Abell, British 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, American sociologist * Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist * Martin Albrow, British sociologist * Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist * Edwin Amenta, American sociologist * Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist * Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist * Elijah Anderson, American sociolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Arber
Sara Lynne Arber (born 19 March 1949) is a British sociologist and Professor at University of Surrey. Arber has previously held the position of President of the British Sociological Association (1999–2001) and Vice-President of the European Sociological Association (2005–07). She is well known for her work on gender and ageing, inequalities in health and has pioneered research in the new field of sociology of sleep. Career Arber was born on 19 March 1949 in Chingford, Essex, England, and raised in Thames Ditton, Surrey. She graduated from the London School of Economics with a First in Sociology 1972. She went onto postgraduate study at University of London and University of Michigan before joining the Sociology Department of the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in 1974. She obtained her PhD by publications from the University of Surrey in 1991. She was made a Professor there in 1994, she acted as Head of Department (1996–2002) and Head of the School of Human Scien ... [...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 (born Sheila McKenny, 2 November 1930; died 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 woma ... [...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 Sociology, 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 World War II, Second World War, he worked under David Glass (sociologist), 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; ... [...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 founder 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, and as child lived through the blitz on the city during the Second World War. He attended Taunton's School, Southampton and as a schoolboy became the English junior chess champion . He gained a BSc (Econ) from the University of London at the then University College, Leicester and an MA from Leicester University. He was married to Rosemary North in 1960; after her death in 1997, he married Christine Reid in 2006. He was a long-serving Methodist local preacher. Eldridge died o ... [...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 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brown (sociologist)
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Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on globalization, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He 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 wrote ''The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity'', awarded the 1997 European Amalfi Prize, which argued against the view ... [...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 The British Sociological Association (BSA) is a scholarly and professional society for sociologists in the United Kingdom, and was founded in 1951. It publishes the academic journals ''Sociology'', '' Work, Employment and Society, Sociological R ... in 1987–89, and edited its journal ''Sociology'' for 1985–87. She was a member of the International Sociological Association’s (ISA) executive from 1994–2002. 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. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Burgess (sociologist)
Sir Robert George Burgess DL, FAcSS (23 April 1947 – 21 February 2022) was a British sociologist and academic. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester in 1999, succeeding Ken Edwards. He was President of the British Sociological Association 1989–1991 and chair of the board of GSM London. Early life Burgess was born in Sturminster in Dorset on 23 April 1947. He grew up Somerset, and attended the King Arthur's School in Wincanton, from 1958. He taught for a year at Bennett Memorial Diocesan School, a church school, in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Burgess received his BA degree from the University of Durham in 1971 and his PhD degree from the University of Warwick in 1981. Career Burgess remained at Warwick as a lecturer and became Professor of Sociology in 1987. He then rose through the ranks, serving as Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1995–99. Burgess then moved to the University of Leicester as Vice-Chancellor, introducing sweeping changes that enhanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Westergaard (sociologist)
John Harald Westergaard (13 October 1927 – 3 May 2014) was British-Danish sociologist and academic. He was chair in sociological studies at the University of Sheffield between 1975 and 1986, and president of the British Sociological Association (1991–93). Life John Harald Westergaard was born on 13 October 1927 in Putney, London, to Otto and Inger Westergaard; his parents were Danish and his father was a civil engineer. In 1938, with his parents about to divorce, Westergaard moved to Denmark with his mother and was sent to boarding school in Copenhagen; his experiences under Nazi occupation and his mother's attachment to the Danish resistance movement during the Second World War encouraged an opposition to authority and a belief in socialism. He was briefly a censor in the British Army of the Rhine and then completed a sociology degree at the London School of Economics (LSE), graduating in 1951. He was a researcher to Ruth Glass at University College London, before moving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |