Dr John Goldthorpe FBA

Sociology
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1984
Subjects
Sociology

Current post

Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

Past appointments

Nuffield College University of Oxford Emeritus Fellow

2012 -

Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford Distinguished Senior Research Fellow

2012 - 2015

Institute of Education University of London Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, and Research Fellow, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, London

2008 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

2002 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow

1969 - 2002

Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

1969 -

University of Cambridge Fellow of King's College and University Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics

1960 - 1969

University of Leicester Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

1957 - 1960

University of Leicester Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

1957 - 1960

Publications

The Affluent Worker 3 Volumes 1968-9

Social mobility and class structure in modern Britain 1980

The development of industrial society in Ireland _PBA_ 1992

The constant flux: a study of class mobility in industrial societies 1992

On sociology: number, narratives and the integration of research and theory 2000, 2007

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sarah Nettleton FBA

Sociology of health and illness; sociology of public health; sociology of the body and embodiment

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Professor Colin Crouch FBA

The economic sociology of Europe, including central and eastern Europe, with particular reference to work, industrial relations, and related social policies; problems of neoliberalism and contemporary capitalism

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Professor Deborah Mayo FBA

Philosophy of science, foundations of statistical and inductive inference; the epistemology of experiment and learning from error; interdisciplinary work on value-laden controversies in science and evidence policy

Deborah Mayo FBA

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