Professor Michael Mann FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology, UCLA (since 1987). Born Manchester, England in 1942. D.Phil Oxford. Honorary Doctorates from McGill University, The University of the Aegean, and University College, Dublin. Honorary Professor Cambridge University. Member of the American Academy. Principal work is the four-volume The Sources of Social Power (1986, 1993, 2012, and 2013), which is a history of power in human societies centred on four types of power, ideological, economic, military, and political. Also published books entitled Fascists, on the rise of fascism in the inter-war period, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing, and Incoherent Empire, a critique of US foreign policy. Currently writing a book on war and military power.
Current post
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles; Honorary Professor, University of Cambridge
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Professor David Buckingham FBA
Children, young people, media and education: media use, civic participation, consumerism, youth culture, sexuality, media literacy, media regulation, identity
Professor Mauricio Avendano FBA
The health impact of social policies (education, families, pensions, long-term care, poverty and employment); the role of institutions in explaining international differences in ageing; the socio-economic impacts of mental health.
Professor Linda Woodhead FBA
Religion, values and culture in modern and contemporary societies; the decline of institutional churches and the rise and persistence of alternatives
