Frank Furedi

Frank Furedi (* 1947 in Budapest ) is a professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Great Britain.

biography

After 1956, Furedi's family emigrated from Hungary to Canada. Furedi studied at McGill University in Montreal and has lived in Great Britain since 1969. He received his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London with a thesis on the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. As a former student radical, he co-founded the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party in the 1970s . He is now one of the leading sociologists and is often quoted in the British press.

Furedi works with the online magazine Spiked . He is a guest author for the Axis of the Good and the debate magazine Novo .

His wife, Ann Furedi, runs the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the UK's largest private abortion consultancy.

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Furedi is known for his work on the sociology of fear, therapy culture, fearful upbringing, and dealing with risk and knowledge. He takes critical positions on Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck . He sees global warming as a much smaller danger than an inability of politics to lead seriously.

2001 coined the term Furedi parent-determinism (Engl. Parental determinism returns), an ideology that social problems en masse educational failure of parents. The concept had a major impact on the young research field of parenting culture in the UK .

Fonts (selection)

The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis , Junius Publications, 1986
The Mau Mau War in Perspective , James Currey Publishers, 1989
Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age , Pluto Press, 1991
The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative , Pluto Press, 1994
Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism , IB Tauris, 1994
Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation , Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997
Population and Development: A Critical Introduction , Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race , Pluto Press, 1998
Courting Mistrust: The Hidden Growth of a Culture of Litigation in Britain , Center for Policy Studies, 1999
Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and Be a Good Parent , Allen Lane, 2001, German Why children need courageous parents, DTV 2004, ISBN 3-423-34072-X
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age , Routledge, 2003
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone ?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism , Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004
The Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right , Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005
Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown , Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007