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 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
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.
Professor Susie Scott FBA
The micro-sociological perspectives of symbolic interactionism and Goffman's dramaturgy, applied to questions of self-identity, emotions, mental health and everyday life. Originator of the sociology of shyness and sociology of nothing
