Manuel Castells Oliván is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works,entitled The Information Age:Economy,Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society,communication and globalization.
Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how power is distributed and changes throughout and amongst societies,political sociology's focus ranges across individual families to the state as sites of social and political conflict and power contestation.
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf,Baron Dahrendorf,was a German-British sociologist,philosopher,political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist,Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society. Dahrendorf wrote multiple articles and books,his most notable being Class and Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) and Essays in the Theory of Society (1968).
Reinhard Bendix was a German-American sociologist.
John Harry Goldthorpe is a British sociologist. He is an emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College,Oxford. His main research interests are in the fields of social stratification and mobility,and comparative macro-sociology. He also writes on methodological issues in relation to the integration of empirical,quantitative research and theory with a particular focus on issues of causation.
Michael Mann FBA is a British emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the University of Cambridge. Mann holds dual British and United States citizenships.
Thomas Humphrey Marshall 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.
Horace Romano "Rom" Harré was a New Zealand-British philosopher and psychologist.
AndréBeteille,is an Indian sociologist,writer and academician. He is known for his studies of the caste system in South India. He has served with educational institutions in India such as Delhi School of Economics,North Eastern Hill University,and Ashoka University.
Jeffrey Roger Goodwin is a professor of sociology at New York University. He holds a BA,MA (Sociology) and PhD (Sociology) from Harvard University.
Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths,University of London. Lash obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Michigan,an MA in Sociology from Northwestern University,and a PhD from the London School of Economics (1980). Lash began his teaching career as a lecturer at Lancaster University and became a professor in 1993. He moved to London in 1998 to take up his present post as Director for the Centre for Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College.
Victor G. Nee is an American sociologist and professor at Cornell University,known for his work in economic sociology,inequality and immigration. He published a book with Richard Alba entitled Remaking the American Mainstream proposing a neo-assimilation theory to explain the assimilation of post-1965 immigrant minorities and the second generation. In 2012,he published Capitalism from Below co-authored with Sonja Opper examining the rise of economic institutions of capitalism in China. Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor,and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. Nee received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007,and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York ( 1994–1995),and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1996-1997). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economics by Lund University in Sweden in 2013.
Nikolas Rose is a British sociologist and social theorist. He is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences,in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London. From January 2012 to until his retirement in April 2021 he was Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London,having joined King's to found this new Department. He was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of King's ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. Before moving to King's College London,he was the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics,director and founder of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience,Biomedicine,Biotechnology and Society from 2002 to 2011,and Head of the LSE Department of Sociology (2002–2006). He was previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths,University of London,where he was Head of the Department of Sociology,Pro-Warden for Research and Head of the Goldsmiths Centre for Urban and Community Research and Director of a major evaluation of urban regeneration in South East London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy,the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences,and a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex,England,and Aarhus University,Denmark.
Stephen Park Turner is a researcher in social practice,social and political theory,and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is Graduate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of South Florida,where he also holds the title Distinguished University Professor. He has held a NEH Fellowship,was Simon Honorary Professor at Manchester University and has twice been the Advanced Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies
Bryan Stanley Turner is a British and Australian sociologist. He was born in January 1945 in Birmingham,England. Turner has held university appointments in England,Scotland,Australia,Germany,Holland,Singapore and the United States. He was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge (1998–2005) and Research Team Leader for the Religion Cluster at the Asian Research Institute,National University of Singapore (2005–2008).
The sociology of race and ethnic relations is the study of social,political,and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society. This area encompasses the study of systemic racism,like residential segregation and other complex social processes between different racial and ethnic groups.
John Peter Scott is an English sociologist working on issues of economic and political sociology,social stratification,the history of sociology,and social network analysis. He is currently working independently,and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde,Leicester,Essex,and Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy,a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association since 1970. In 2015 he became Chair of Section S4 of the British Academy. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Essex University.
Anthony Francis Heath,CBE,FBA is a British sociologist who is a professor of sociology at Oxford University and a professorial fellow of Nuffield College,Oxford.
William "Bill" Craig Martin was an Australian sociologist. He was Professor of Sociology at Flinders University and the University of Queensland and was an editor of the Journal of Sociology. His main research interests were in the sociology of work and employment.
Michael Savage,is a British sociologist and academic,specialising in social class. Since 2014 he has been the Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),the post traditionally awarded to the most senior professor in the department. In addition to being Head of the Sociology Department between 2013-2016,Savage also held the position of Director of LSE's International Inequalities Institute between 2015-2020. He previously taught at the University of Manchester and the University of York.
