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Abercrombie, Nicholas
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PERSONAL: Born April 13, , in Birmingham, England; son of Michael (a university professor) and Jane (a university professor; maiden name, Johnson) Abercrombie; married Brenda Patterson (a publisher), January 2, ; children: Robert Benjamin, Joseph Edward. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Queen's College, Oxford, B.A., ; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, , ; University of Lancaster, Ph.D., Politics: Socialist.
ADDRESSES: Home—1A Derwent Rd., Lancaster LA1 3ES, England. Office—Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster, England; fax: E-mail—[emailprotected].
CAREER:University of London, University College, London, England, research officer in town planning, ; University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, England, lecturer, , senior
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Nicholas Abercrombie
British sociologist and retired academic
Nicholas Abercrombie (born ) is a British sociologist and retired academic. He was Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University from to
Education and career
[edit]Born in Birmingham in , Abercrombie's father Michael and mother Jane (née Johnson) were academics. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, graduating with a BA in He then completed an MSc at the London School of Economics in [1]
Abercrombie worked as a research officer in town planning at University College London from to , when he joined Lancaster University as a lecturer. He then carried out doctoral studies there and obtained a PhD in In , he was promoted to a senior lectureship and in became reader in sociology. In , he was appointed Professor of Sociology at Lancaster, and in became Pro-Vice Chancellor.[1] He retired in [2][3]
Publications
[edit]- Class, Structure, and Knowledge (Basil Bla
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Bio: (-) British sociologist. Nicholas Abercrombie received his doctorate from the London School of Economics and later taught at the University of Lancaster. He dealt with the sociology of knowledge, popular culture, the relationship between the media and gemenskap, class theory, and urban sociology.
In his book Class, Structure and Knowledge (), Abercrombie argues that in modern capitalist societies, the ruling class does not need to impose its own ideology on gemenskap as a whole, but achieves its goals primarily through coercion and economic power. Members of the working class often actively reject the ideology of the ruling class.
Abercrombie and John Urry studied the middle class in Britain in the book Capital, Labor and the mittpunkt Class () and in their analysis concluded that there was a polarization of the middle class. Managers and experts are approaching the upper class, while most ordinary "white-collar workers" are approaching the working class. They beli