Gregor McLennan (born 21 October 1952) is a British sociologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He studied under Stuart Hall at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1970s and continued to work with Hall at the Open University during the 1980s, co-editing several key texts on politics, ideology and crime.[1] From 1991 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of Sociology at Massey University. In 1997 he assumed the Established Chair in Sociology at the University of Bristol, where he was also Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is currently Professor Emeritus.
Gregor McLennan | |
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 McLennan in 1991 | |
| Born | 21 October 1952 |
| Education | University of Birmingham (PhD), Bristol University (BA) |
| Known for | works on postcolonial and postsecular social theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | social theory, ideology and politics, philosophy of social sciences |
| Institutions | Massey University Bristol University |
| Doctoral students | Seyed Javad Miri |
McLennan is known for his works on postcolonialism and postsecularism.[2][3] He is also a Trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation and edited Hall's Selected Writings on Marxism for Duke University Press in 2021.
Books
editAuthored:
- Marxism and the Methodologies of History (1981)
- Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond (1989)
- Pluralism (1995)
- Sociological Cultural Studies: Reflexivity and Positivity in the Human Sciences (2006)
- Exploring Society (3rd edition 2010 - co-authored)
- Story of Sociology (2011)
Edited or co-edited:
- On Ideology (1978)
- Making Histories (1982)
- Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory (1982)
- State and Society in Contemporary Britain (1984)
- The Idea of the Modern State (1984)
References
edit- ^ "Professor Gregor McLennan - Our People". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ McLennan, Gregor (September 2013). "GREGOR McLENNAN INTERVIEW – 24 MAY 2011". Cultural Studies. 27 (5): 815–827. doi:10.1080/09502386.2013.773676. ISSN 0950-2386. S2CID 143906348.
- ^ Mouzelis, Nicos (1996). "AFTER POSTMODERNISM: A REPLY TO GREGOR McLENNAN". Sociology. 30 (1): 131–135. doi:10.1177/0038038596030001009. JSTOR 42857841. S2CID 144379431.
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