Professor Ray Pahl FBA
Empirical studies on contemporary communities, focusing on all forms of work, inequality and social polarisation; studies on managers and directors, 'success' and the social importance of friendship
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Year of birth
- 1935
- Year of death
- 2011
- Honours
- FBA
Current post
Visiting Research Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex; Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Kent
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Gøsta Esping-Andersen FBA
Comparative welfare states, social stratification and inter-generational mobility, family demography and the transformation of gender relations in advanced societies
Professor Judy Wajcman FBA
The sociology of employment; the impact of digital technology on work, time, and everyday life; gender inequality, and organizational analysis
Professor Walter Powell FBA
The emergence and persistence of institutions; the transfer of ideas and practices across organisations; the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation; and the contributions of civil society to democracy
