Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on

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, the theory of the global age and global

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, and subsequently worked at

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, where he was Head of Department, and at

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. He has also held visiting or guest positions at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the

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, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the

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. Albrow was President of the British Sociological Association from 1985 to 1987, and the editor-in-chief of its journal ''

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'' from 1981 to 1984. Additionally, he was the founding editor of the

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's journal, ''

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''. He wrote ''The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity'', awarded the 1997 European Amalfi Prize, which argued against the view that globalization was an inevitable one-way process, and that a new age had supplanted both the modern and postmodern ages. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Albrow lives in London with his wife, Sue Owen. His books include: ''Bureaucracy'', London, Pall Mall, 1970; ''Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory'', London, Macmillan, 1990; ''The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity'', Cambridge, Polity 1996; ''Do Organizations Have Feelings?'', London and New York, Routledge, 1997; ''Sociology: The Basics'', London and New York, Routledge, 1999; and ''Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change'', Frankfurt am Main, Klosterman, 2014. The English-language edition of his book ''China's Role in a Shared Human Future'' was published in 2018. The book was launched at the

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. In an interview with Xinhua on 29 October 2022, Albrow stated that Chinese strongman and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping was an "absolutely outstanding" political theorist and that his so-called Xi Jinping Thought was an "outstanding theoretical achievement of global significance". https://english.news.cn/20221029/df7a9b5782ca4c04ace81a7f4d3b986d/c.html

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1937 births Living people British sociologists Writers about globalization Presidents of the British Sociological Association {{globalization-stub