Thomas H. Marshall

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Thomas H. Marshall

Thomas Humphrey Marshall (born December 19, 1893 in London , † November 29, 1981 in Cambridge ) was a British sociologist .

Life

Thomas H. Marshall taught as a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science , where Ralf Dahrendorf was one of his students. From 1964 to 1969 he was President of the British Sociological Association .

plant

Marshall's treatise Citizenship and Social Class is being used again in connection with the discussion on civil society and civil rights . Marshall addresses the problematic relationship between capitalist economy (inequality) and political democracy (equality). With the historical outline of social stratification and the stratification concept of citizenship , which grants all citizens the same civil, political and social rights, he was able to explain important stages of development in the course of capitalist industrialization and the emergence of the modern welfare state.

Aftermath

In his habilitation thesis, Social Classes and Class Conflicts in Industrial Society, Dahrendorf took up central thoughts of Marshall. In recent times the idea of citizenship has been taken up in numerous essays and book publications. Among the German recipients, the sociologists Hans-Peter Müller and Walther Müller-Jentsch in particular used and continued to use Marshall's concept of civil rights for their analyzes.

Fonts

  • Citizenship and social class and other essays , Cambridge 1950
    • German: civil rights and social classes. On the sociology of the welfare state , translated by Elmar Rieger , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-593-34660-5
  • Sociology at the Crossroads and Other Essays. Heinemann, London 1963.
  • Social policy. Hutchinson, London 1965.

literature

  • Anthony Giddens : Class Division, Class Conflict and Citizenship Rights. In: Anthony Giddens: Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory. Macmillan, London 1982, pp. 164-180.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enke, Stuttgart 1957. English edition: Social class and class conflict in industrial societies. Routledge, London 1959.
  2. ↑ E.g. Bryan S. Turner (Ed.): Citizenship and Social Theory. Sage, London 1993; Derek Heater: Citizenship: The Civic Ideal in World History, Politics and Education. Longman, London 1990.
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Müller , Jürgen Mackert (Ed.): Modern (state) citizenship. National Citizenship and the Debates of Citizenship Studies. VS, Wiesbaden 2007.
  4. ^ Walther Müller-Jentsch: Work and Citizen Status. Studies on social and industrial democracy. VS, Wiesbaden 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, Thomas H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshall, Thomas Humphrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1981
Place of death Cambridge