Professor John Scott FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2007
- Subjects
- Business and management, Sociology
- Website
- http://www.johnscottcbe.com/
Summary
John Scott is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Essex, Exeter, and Copenhagen. He was formerly Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Essex and Leicester, and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Plymouth. He has been President, Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer of the British Sociological Association and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been awarded the Distinguished Services to British Sociology Award, an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Essex, and in 2013 was awarded the CBE for Services to Social Science. His work covers theoretical sociology, the history of sociology, elites and social stratification, and social network analysis.
Current post
University of Essex Visiting Professor
University of Copenhagen Honorary Professor of Sociology
University of Exeter Honorary Visiting Professor
Past appointments
University of Plymouth Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Sociology, University of Plymouth
2008 - 2013
Bergen University, Norway Adjunct Professor
1997 - 2005
University of Essex Professor of Sociology
1994 - 2008
British Academy appointments
Section Chair for S4 (Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics)
2015 - 2018
Publications
British Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950
John Scott - Published in 2018 by SAGE Publishing
Envisioning Sociology: Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction
John Scott and Ray Bromley - Published in 2013 by SUNY Press
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research
John Scott, Gayle Letherby and Malcolm Williams - Published in 2012 by SAGE Publishing
Conceptualising the Social World: Principles of Sociological Analysis
John Scott - Published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Lindsay Paterson FBA
Educational stratification; social mobility; education and civic values; history of education; the culture, society and politics of Scotland; quantitative methods in social science
Professor Heather Joshi FBA
Interdisciplinary and international studies of residential mobility, neighbourhood, children's mental health; the co-development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in children, and their consequences in adult life
Professor Colin Mayer FBA
Financial economics; corporate finance, corporate governance, regulation, taxation, and international comparisons of financial systems; the role of the corporation in contemporary society
