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Viscount Garry Runciman of Doxford FBA

Sociology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1975
Year of birth
1934
Year of death
2020
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics

Last post

Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Past President of the British Academy

Past appointments

Unknown Unknown Chairman Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in England and Wales

1991 - 1993

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow

1971 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow

1959 - 1963

Publications

The theory of cultural and social selection

Published in 2009

The origin of human social institutions

Published in 2001

Evolution of social behaviour patterns in primates and man

Published in 1996

A treatise on social theory

Published in 1983, 1989, 1997

Three volumes

Relative deprivation and social justice

Published in 1966, 1972

Plato's later epistemology

Published in 1962

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Professor Fiona Steele FBA

The development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, including multilevel event history models and simultaneous equation models; applications in demography and education

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Professor Mary Daly FBA

Comparative welfare state studies; social policies and gender inequality; theorisation and measurement of contemporary poverty; family policies within a comparative perspective; social care in contemporary states and societies; European Union social policies

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Professor Jonathan Bradshaw FBA

Social security policy; poverty and living standards; child well-being; and comparative social policy

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