Professor Mike Savage FBA

Historical sociology of 20th century Britain; the new middle classes, the changing nature of attachments to locality and place, the relationship between cultural inequalities and social class.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Politics, Sociology

Current post

Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; Visiting Professor, University of York

Past appointments

University of York Visiting Professor

2012 -

Department of Sociology, LSE Professor of Sociology

2012 -

University of York Professor, Head of Department of Sociology

2010 - 2012

University of Manchester Professor of Sociology and Director of the ESRC Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester

1995 - 2010

University of North Carolina Visiting Associate Professor

1994 - 1995

Keele University Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader

1989 - 1994

School for Global studies, University of Sussex Research Fellow in Urban Studies

1985 - 1989

Lancaster University Research Assistant

1984 - 1989

Publications

The Dynamics of Working Class Politics: The Labour movement in Preston, 1880-1940

Michael Savage - Published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press

Globalisation and Belonging

Mike Savage, Gaynor Bagnall, Brian Longhurst - Published in 2004 by SAGE Publications Ltd

Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: Middle Class Formation in Contemporary Britain

Mike Savage, James Barlow, Peter Dickens, Tony Fielding - Published in 1995 by Routledge

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Professor David Soskice FBA

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