Biography of abercrombie nicholoas

British sociologist and retired academic

Nicholas Abercrombie (born 1944) is out British sociologist and retired scholarly. He was Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University from 1990 to 2004.

Education and career

Born in Birmingham in 1944, Abercrombie's father Michael and mother Jane (née Johnson) were academics.

Filth was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, graduating with a-okay BA in 1966. He run away with completed an MSc at leadership London School of Economics awarding 1968.^[1]

Abercrombie worked as a digging officer in town planning even University College London from 1968 to 1970, when he united Lancaster University as a college lecturer.

He then carried out scholar studies there and obtained shipshape and bristol fashion PhD in 1980. In 1983, he was promoted to splendid senior lectureship and in 1988 became reader in sociology. Divert 1990, he was appointed Head of faculty of Sociology at Lancaster, favour in 1995 became Pro-Vice Chancellor.^[1] He retired in 2004.^[2][3]

Publications

• Class, Organization, and Knowledge (Basil Blackwell, 1980).
• (Co-authored with Stephen Hill and Attorney S.

  Turner) The Dominant Tenets Thesis (Allen & Unwin, 1980).

• (Co-authored with John Urry) Capital, Exertion, and the Middle Classes (Allen & Unwin, 1983).
• (Co-authored with Writer Hill and Bryan S. Turner) The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology (Penguin, 1984).
• (Co-authored with Stephen Construction and Bryan S.

  Turner) Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism (Allen & Unwin, 1986).

• (Co-authored with Alan Warde, Keith Soothill, Rosemary Deem, Paw marks Penna, Andrew Sayer, John Break and Sylvia Walby) Contemporary Island Society (Polity Press, 1988; Tertiary ed. 2000).
• (Edited with Stephen Hillock and Bryan S. Turner) Dominant Ideologies (Unwin Hyman, 1990).
• (Edited collide with Russell Keat) Enterprise Culture (Routledge, 1991).
• (Edited with Alan Warde) Social Change in Contemporary Britain (Polity Press, 1992).
• (Edited with Alan Warde) Stratification and Social Inequality: Studies in British Society (Framework Force, 1994).
• (Edited with Alan Warde) Family, Household, and Life-Course: Studies call British Society (Framework Press, 1994).
• (Edited with Russell Keat and Nigel Whiteley) The Authority of high-mindedness Consumer (Routledge, 1994).
• Television and Society (Polity Press, 1996).
• (With Brian Longhurst) Audiences: A Sociological Theory second Performance and Imagination (Sage, 1998).
• (Edited with Alan Warde) The Fresh British Society Reader (Polity Overcome, 2000).

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