Professor Alan Warde FBA

Consumption, cultural sociology, food and eating, mixed methods, social change, social and cultural capital, social stratification, social theory, sustainable consumption, theories of practice
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Honours
FBA, FAcSS
Subjects
Sociology

Current post

School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh Honorary Professor

2023 -

University of Manchester Emeritus Professor of Sociology

2021 -

University of Manchester Honorary Fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institute

2007 -

Past appointments

School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester Professor of Sociology

1999 - 2021

Lancaster University Professor of Sociology

1996 - 1999

What is sociology?

12 Feb 2020 Professor Alan Warde FBA

Professor Alan Warde FBA explains how the study of sociology seeks to improve our understanding of social relations and minimise social damage.

Everyday Eating, Food, Taste and Trends in Britain since the 1950s

Alan Warde - Published in 2024 by Bristol University Press

Situated drinking: The association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain, Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Alan Warde, Alessandro Sasso, John Holmes, Monica Hernándes, Abigail Stevely and Petra Meier - Published in 2023 by Sage Journals

Volume 40, Issue 3

Cultural Intolerance, in Practice: Social Variation in Food and Drink Avoidances in Italy, 2003–2016, Social Indicators Research

Filippo Oncini, Malte Roedl, Moris Triveti and Alan Warde - Published in 2023 by Springer Nature

Volume 170, Pages: 1075–1096

Society and consumption, Consumption and Society

Alan Warde - Published in 2022 by Bristol University Press

Volume 1: Issue 1, Pages: 11–30

The Social Significance of Dining Out: Continuity and Change

Alan Warde, Jennifer Whillans, and Jessica Paddock - Published in 2020 by Manchester University Press

Consumption: a sociological analysis

Alan Warde - Published in 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan UK

The Practice of Eating

Alan Warde - Published in 2016 by Polity Press

Culture, Class, Distinction

Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal, David Wright - Published in 2009 by Taylor & Francis

Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure

Alan Warde, Lydia Martens - Published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press

Consumption, Food and Taste: culinary antinomies and commodity culture

Alan Warde - Published in 1997 by SAGE Publications

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Agnès Van Zanten FBA

Sociology of education; educational inequality; elite education; parental educational strategies; school choice; school segregation; access to higher education; educational policy; comparative and ethnographic research

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Professor Michael Mann FBA

Comparative and historical sociology: the history of power in human societies; fascism and ethnic cleansing

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Professor Elizabeth Shove FBA

Social theories of practice; sociology of energy and mobility; infrastructures, technologies and everyday life; time and flexibility

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