Michael Mann (sociologist)

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Michael Mann (born August 18, 1942 in Manchester ), a native of Britain, has been Professor of Sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles ( UCLA ) since 1987 .

Life

Michael Mann studied history at Oxford , where he received his PhD in sociology in 1971 with a thesis on the General Foods Corporation (now Mondelēz International ).

From 1971 to 1977 he taught sociology at the University of Essex , interrupted by a guest stay at Yale . He then was lecturer in sociology at the London School of Economics until 1987 . Since 1987 he has been Professor of Sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

Man has both British and US citizenship. He speaks French and can read German and Spanish.

Mann was visiting professor in Madrid , at Birkbeck College in London , at Queen's University in Belfast and visiting professor of American history and institutions in Cambridge .

Mann published numerous works, which earned him, among other things, the gold medal of the University of Helsinki , the honorary membership of the University of Leiden and in 1998 also an honorary doctorate in literature from McGill University in Montreal . In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy . In 2018 he was the first to receive the undoped Siegfried Landshut Prize awarded by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research .

Fonts (selection)

His most important books include History of Power , The Powerless Superpower, and The Dark Side of Democracy: A Theory of Ethnic Cleansing . In The Impotent Superpower , Mann criticizes the politics of the United States in the 21st century. In his book, The Dark Side of Democracy (A Theory of Ethnic Cleansing) , Mann examines the interplay between ethnic cleansing and democracy.

  • Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class 1981. Humanities Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-391-02268-3 .
  • Socialism can survive: Social change and the Labor Party. Fabian Society, 1985, ISBN 978-0-7163-0502-6 .
  • The Sources of Social Power. Volume 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986, ISBN 978-0-521-30851-9 .
  • German: history of power. Volume 1: From the beginnings to ancient Greece. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-593-34577-2 ; Volume 2: From the Roman Empire to the eve of industrialization. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 978-3-593-35170-4 .
  • States, War, and Capitalism: Studies in Political Sociology. Blackwell, 1988, ISBN 978-0-631-15973-5 .
  • The Sources of Social Power. Volume 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation States, 1760-1914. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 978-0-521-44585-6 .
  • German: history of power. Volume 3: The Origin of Classes and Nation-States (Part I). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-593-36108-6 .
  • History of power. Volume 3: The Origin of Classes and Nation-States (Part II). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-593-36390-5 .
  • Incoherent Empire. Verso, London / New York 2003, ISBN 978-1-85984-582-0 .
    • German: The powerless superpower. Why the US can't rule the world . Translated by Thomas Atzert, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2003, ISBN 978-3-593-37313-3 .
  • Fascists. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-83131-4 .
  • The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-53854-1 .
  • German: The dark side of democracy: A theory of ethnic cleansing. Translated by Werner Roller. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936096-75-0 .
  • Power in the 21st Century. Polity Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7456-5322-8 .
  • The Sources of Social Power. Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890–1945. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-65547-8 .
  • The Sources of Social Power. Volume 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-61041-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sociologist Michael Mann is the first prize winner , boersenblatt.net, September 24, 2018, accessed on September 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Tobias K. Vogel: The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing . Ethnic Cleansing - The Downside of the Nation? ( Memento of March 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Review. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 17, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Man, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester