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

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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.

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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

Susie Scott FBA

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