Fiona Devine

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(born 6 June 1962) is a professor of sociology at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

and head of

Manchester Business School Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS) is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. One of the most prestigious business schools in the United Kingdom, it is also the second oldest in the UK, and pro ...

Education

Devine's degrees, master's and doctorate were all gained from the

University of Essex The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass university, plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the an ...

Career

Devine is best known for sociology writings about a new model of class structures: seven classes ranging from the

Elite In political and sociological theory, the elite (french: élite, from la, eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. D ...

at the top to a

Precariat In sociology and economics, the precariat () is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmant ...

at the bottom. She collaborated with the BBC website

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on the

Great British Class Survey The Great British Class Survey (GBCS) was a survey of social class in the United Kingdom conducted in 2011. The survey was developed in collaboration with academics from the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics and Political Sc ...

. More generally Devine specialises in

social stratification Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political). As ...

and mobility; class identity; and in gender, work and family. She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Manchester.

Awards

She was awarded an OBE for Services to Social Sciences in 2010 and elected to the

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in 2011. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the

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for services to the Social Sciences.

Selected bibliography

Books

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Journal articles

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References

External links

Profile: Manchester Business School
{{DEFAULTSORT:Devine, Fiona Living people Academics of the University of Manchester Alumni of the University of Essex British sociologists 1962 births Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Officers of the Order of the British Empire Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British women sociologists