Margaret S. Archer

Margaret S. Archer, 2019

Margaret Scotford Archer (born January 20, 1943 in Grenoside , England ) is a British sociologist .

Life

Archer graduated from the London School of Economics in 1964 in social sciences and taught sociology at the University of Cambridge (1964–1966) and the University of Reading (1966–1973). In 1967 she completed a PhD at the London School of Economics with the thesis The Educational achievement Aspirations of English Working Class Parents: their formation and influence on children's school. At the École pratique des hautes études , she studied administrative sciences as a post-doctoral student .

She has been with the University of Warwick since 1973 , and has been a professor since 1979. Since 2010 she has taught as emeritus at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , where she set up the center for social ontology .

Margaret S. Archer is a founding member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and has been a board member since January 19, 1994. On April 12, 2014, she was appointed President by Pope Francis ; she succeeded Mary Ann Glendon , who had held the office since March 9, 2004. The Italian Stefano Zamagni has been her successor as academy president since March 27, 2019 .

Act

From 1986 to 1990 she was President of the International Sociological Association . She was editor of Current Sociology, Journal of International Sociological Association from 1972 to 1980 . She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Premio Amalfi , the European Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. She is a member of the Academia Europaea , a European non-governmental scientific society. She is a founding member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences .

Her main areas of work are: macro-sociology , cultural sociology , sociology of education and comparative European studies. She has published over 60 books.

Archer's book Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory , in which she deals with the relationship between culture, social structure and human action, is counted among the main works of sociology.

Fonts (selection)

• Social Origins of Educational Systems , Sage, London 1979
• Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory , Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1988, revised 1996
• Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach , Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1995
• Being Human: The Problem of Agency , Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2000
• Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation , Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-521-82906-2
• Making Our Way Through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility , Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2007, ISBN 0-521-87423-8
• Conversations About Reflexivity , Routledge London and New York 2010, ISBN 0-415-55852-2
• The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity , Cambridge University Press 2012, ISBN 978-1107605275
• Social Origins of Educational Systems (Classical Texts in Critical Realism) , Routledge 2014, ISBN 978-0415639057

literature

• Colin Crouch : Archer, Margaret Scotford. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ²1984, p. 25.

Web links

• Margaret S. Archer's website
• Biography of Margaret S. Archer (EPFL Lausanne)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nomina del Presidente della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali In: Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, April 12, 2014 (Italian)
2. ^ Margaret S. Archer (President) , The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, accessed April 13, 2014
3. ^ Nomina del Presidente della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , March 27, 2019, accessed March 27, 2019 (Italian). 
4. ↑ Cf. Matthias König: Magaret S. Archer. Culture and Agency. In: Dirk Kaesler , Ludgera Vogt (Hrsg.): Major works of sociology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 396). Kröner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-520-39601-7 , pp. 14-16.