Göran Therborn

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(23 September 1941, Kalmar,

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) is a professor of

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and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists.

Academic work

He has published widely in journals such as the ''

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'', and is notable for his writing on topics that fall within the general political and sociological framework of post-Marxism. Topics on which he has written extensively include the intersection between the class structure of society and the function of the state apparatus, the formation of

ideology An ideology is a set of beliefs or values attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely about belief in certain knowledge, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones". Form ...

within subjects, and the future of the Marxist tradition.

Education

Therborn was born in 1941 into a landowning family. He graduated from the gymnasium in Hanseatic Kalmar in 1960. He attended

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, where he received a Fil. Dr. in 1974.

Notable works

In his book ''The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology'' (1980) Therborn departs from

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's writings on the formation of ideology by addressing ideological change, the ideological constitution of classes, and ideological domination. He develops a material matrix of ideologies, and a general outline of how ideologies are formed from a post-Marxist perspective . ''From Marxism to Post Marxism?'' (2008), attempts to convey in a relatively small amount of space a comprehensive history of the development of

Marxist theory Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew f ...

and the trajectory of Marxist thought in the 21st century.

Honours

Therborn was awarded the 2019 Lenin Award. In his acceptance speech, he said: "The Lenin Award is, by its name, an intentional provocation, not only against the

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and the good stock market prices, but also against the silent, the cautious and timid, who sit still and patiently wait for what the government will come up with, such as for instance the January agreement this year, about which gaps to expand and what social rights should be cut back

Bibliography

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Therborn, Goran 1941 births Swedish sociologists British sociologists Living people Left Party (Sweden) Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Marxism People from Kalmar