David Lockwood

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David Lockwood (born April 9, 1929 in Holfirth , Yorkshire , † June 6, 2014 ) was a British sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Essex .

academic career

He completed his academic studies in a doctoral program at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1954, in partnership with an exclusive group of PhD students, which included Ralf Dahrendorf , Basil Bernstein and John Westergaard . The supervising professor (tutor) was A. H. Halsey , sociologist and influential advisor to the Labor Party .

He was initially a lecturer at the LSE and moved to St John's College in Cambridge as a fellow in 1958 and became a lecturer in the Economics Department of Cambridge University , in 1968 the University of Essex appointed him a professorship in sociology, which he held up to his Retired in 1995. The British Journal of Sociology dedicated a special issue to him and his work in 1996. Since 1976 he has been a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

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Lockwood's areas of work included class and conflict theory as well as empirical research into the social stratification of British society. His most important works include the study of commercial employees ( The Blackcoated Worker , 1958) and the three-volume work on the Affluent Worker (1969) published with John Goldthorpe , Frank Bechhofer and Jennifer Platt . With the empirical findings of this study of British automobile workers, the authors rejected the then widespread thesis of a “bourgeoisisation” of the “high-earning worker” and thus influenced the sociological debate about the “new working class” in the 1970s.

Lockwood made the distinction between social integration and system integration , which has significant consequences for sociological theory and was taken up by many sociologists, including Margaret Archer , Anthony Giddens and Jürgen Habermas . He himself defined this pair of terms as follows: “ While the problem of social integration is concerned with the ordered or conflict-laden relationships between the actors in a system, the problem of system integration revolves around the ordered or conflict-laden relationships between the parts of a social system. "

According to Lockwood, both social integration and system integration can be ordered or charged with conflict. Integration does not have to be identical with positive harmony or togetherness. With social integration he generally connects the related actions of the members of society.

Fonts

  • The Blackcoated Worker. Unwin University Books, London 1958.
  • Social integration and system integration. In: George K. Zollschan, Walter Hirsch (Ed.): Explorations in Social Change . Routledge & Kegan, London 1964, pp. 244-257. (German: Social integration and system integration. In: Wolfgang Zapf (Ed.): Theories of social change . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1971, pp. 124–137)
  • Sources of Variation in Working-class Images. In: Sociological Review. Vol. 14, 1966, pp. 249-267.
  • with John H. Goldthorpe, Frank Bechhofen and Jennifer Platt: The Affluent Worker. 3 volumes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1968 and 1969.
  • Solidarity and Schism. The Problem of Disorder in Durkheimian and Marxist Sociology . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-827717-2 .

Literature on the theorem Social and System Integration

  • Nicos Mouzelis: Social and System Integration: Some Reflections on a Fundamental Distinction. In: British Journal of Sociology. Vol. 25, 1974, pp. 395-409.
  • Nicos Mouzelis: Social and System Integration: Habermas' View. In: British Journal of Sociology. Vol. 43, 1992, pp. 267-288.
  • Margaret Archer: Social Integration and System Integration: Developing the Distinction. In: Sociology. Vol. 30, 1996, pp. 679-699.
  • José Maurício Domingues: Social Integration, System Integration and Collective Subjectivity. In: Sociology. Vol. 34, 2000, pp. 225-241.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Rose: David Lockwood obituary . In: The Guardian. June 29, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  2. ^ Special Issue for Lockwood British Journal of Sociology, September 1996
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Karl H. Hörning (Ed.): The "new" worker. On the change of new layer structures . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  5. ↑ David Lockwood: Social Integration and Systems Integration. In: Wolfgang Zapf (Ed.): Theories of social change . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1971, p. 125.
  6. ↑ Anette Treibel: Introduction to Sociological Theories of the Present. 5th edition. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 3-8100-2756-1 , p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Lockwood, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Essex
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Holfirth , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2014