John Rex
John Rex (born March 5, 1925 in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Cape , South Africa , † December 20, 2011 ) was a South African-British sociologist . He was influenced by Karl Marx , Max Weber , Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim and saw himself as a representative of an objective sociology, but at the same time he was always politically active.
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John Rex attended Gray Primary and Gray High School in Port Elizabeth. From 1943 he served in the British Navy in the Mediterranean in Italy . He earned his BA in Sociology and Philosophy in 1945 from Rhodes University in Grahamstown (South Africa), and in 1946 there the BA Honor in Sociology.
When he returned to Southern Rhodesia in 1946 after serving in the British fleet , the then President of the Students' Union , Ian Smith , later Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, had excluded Rhodes University because it allowed colored students. John Rex was one of the main characters in the campaign for her re-entry into the Students' Union . He taught at the Hope Fountain Mission School near Bulawayo and had decided to write his MA thesis on the 1946 general strike in Bulawayo. However, the South Rhodesian government expelled him because he was " no longer wanted in South Rhodesia due to information from another government ".
He returned to South Africa, applied for a visa for Great Britain and, with the help of his professor James Irving, got a position as a lecturer at the University of Leeds .
Together with Reverend Michael Scott and his London antiracist organization Africa Bureau , he fought the long powerful notion of "white supremacy" ( white supremacy ) in southern Africa . He was also heavily involved in the campaign for nuclear disarmament and continued to fight against racial discrimination . This led him to widen his attention to Islam and the work of Asian trade unions .
With the overthrow of "white supremacy", however, only one of many problems had been solved for him, which make our society appear imperfect.
John Rex was married to Pamela Rutherford (two daughters; divorced in 1964) and from 2006 to Margaret Ellen Rex (née Biggs).
He lived in Warwickshire , England.
Professional stations in detail
- Teacher at Hope Fountain Mission School and later director of Native Affairs for the City of Kimberley
- Lecturer in sociology at the University of Leeds , initially in advanced training, then at its sociological institute from 1945 to 1962.
- Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham from 1962 to 1964
- Lecturer in Sociology at Durham University from 1964 to 1970
- Member of the UNESCO International Expert Committee on Racism since 1967
- Lecturer in Sociology at Warwick University from 1970 to 1984
- Visiting professor at the University of Toronto from 1973 to 1974
- President of the Research Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the International Sociological Association from 1974 to 1982
- Director of the Ethnic Relations Research Group of the Aston University Social Science Research Institute from 1984 to 1988
- Director of the Ethnic Relations Research Group of the University of Warwick's Institute of Economic and Social Science Research from 1988 to 1989
- In 1989 John Rex retired there .
- Visiting professor at New York University in 1995
- Visiting professor at the University of Cape Town in 1996
John Rex was chairman of the British Sociological Society .
Main publications
- Key Problems of Sociological Theory . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1961 (an internationally acclaimed contribution to the sociology of conflict )
- (with Robert Moore): Race Community and Conflict , Oxford 1967
- Race Relations in Sociological Theory . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1970
- (with Sally Tomlinson): Colonial Immigrants in a British City - A Class Analysis . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1979
- Ethnic Minorities in the Modern Nation State - Working Papers in the Theory of Multi-Culturalism and Political Integration in European Cities . Basingstoke: MacMillan 1996
- The Governance of Multicultural Societies . Aldershot: Ashgate 2004.
- "Empire, Race and Ethnicity", in: International Journal of Comparative Sociology , vol. 45, 2004, no. 3, pp. 161-173.
literature
- Herminio Martins (ed.): Knowledge and Passion. Essays in Honor of John Rex. (Festschrift for John Rex's 70th birthday), 1993
Web links
- Literature by and about John Rex in the catalog of the German National Library
- John Rex
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary - Professor John Rex . University of Warwick . December 20, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rex, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African-British sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Elizabeth ( Natal , South Africa ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 2011 |