Martin Albrow

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Martin Albrow (* 1937 ) is a British sociologist .

To person

Albrow is Professor Emeritus for Social Sciences at the Roehampton Institute in London. 1985–1987 he was President and Honorary Vice President of the British Sociological Association . He was visiting professor at the London School of Economics . For his book “The Global Age. State and Society beyond Modernity ”, he received the 1997 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences from the University of Rome.

Global age

For Albrow, we live in the Global Age today. The global age was preceded by a transitional phase - globalization - which began with the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and which ended with the general awareness of global warming . The modern project , which for Albrow began at around the turn of the 16th century with the discovery of America by Columbus and the first circumnavigation of the world by Magellan , came to an end with globalization. It was characterized by the guiding principles of rationality, expansion, capitalism, nation statehood and innovation. Above all, the nation-statehood as a society-building principle, as the supreme authority of the control and organization of the social, the expansion as an extension of the national possessions in territorial and economic terms and as an extension of the influence on the people and groups belonging to it and the rationality, less than reasonableness, rather, as a pattern of differentiation between the rational and the irrational, Albrow regards them as models of modernity. The most important function of the state , the sponsor of the modern project, was to secure the unity of state and society through the institutionalization of the social. The global age, the essential characteristic of which is the reference to globality, becomes visible, among other things, in the relativization of identity and place, the decoupling of citizenship and nationality, the focus on the consumer instead of the producer and the loss of importance of the state monopoly of power.

In the autopoietic , creative and diversifying power of the social, which has long been organized transnationally, Albrow sees the opportunity for citizens in the global age to actively shape the state and, with everyday practices that increasingly include the whole world, a more socially just, environmentally friendly and to create a more sustainable form of society.

Fonts (selection)

  • Bureaucracy , List, Munich 1972 (English first edition: Bureaucracy , 1970)
  • Max Weber's construction of social theory , St. Martin's Press, New York 1990
  • The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity , Polity Press, Cambridge, 1996
    • Farewell to the nation state: State and society in the global age . Translation by Frank Jakubzik . Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​1998, The global age , ²2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45868-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roehampton Institute page , accessed September 4, 2013
  2. ^ Website of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg , accessed on October 10, 2013
  3. ^ Website of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg , accessed on October 10, 2013
  4. ^ Page of Suhrkamp-Verlag ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 4, 2013
  5. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 16
  6. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 48 et passim
  7. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 97
  8. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 93f
  9. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, pp. 259f
  10. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 248ff
  11. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 278ff
  12. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 289
  13. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 285
  14. ^ Albrow, Martin: Das Globale Zeitalter, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 291ff et passim

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personal data
SURNAME Albrow, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937