Tom B. Bottomore

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Thomas Burton Bottomore (born April 8, 1920 - December 9, 1992 in Sussex ) was a British sociologist .

life and work

Bottomore studied at the London School of Economics and was there from 1952 to 1964 lecturer ( reader ) for sociology . He then taught from 1965 to 1967 as a professor at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada) and from 1968 to 1985 as a professor of sociology at the University of Sussex .

Bottomore was a sociologist known beyond Great Britain. His Introduction to Sociology ( Sociology , 1962) was also widely used in the non-English speaking world. In addition to his numerous publications on classes , elites , sociological analysis and modern capitalism , he acted as editor of A Dictionary of Marxist Thought (1983) and The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought (1993) and as a translator.

From 1974 to 1978 he was President of the International Sociological Association .

Bottomore was a member of the Labor Party . His unorthodox Marxism was based on Austromarxism and the Frankfurt School .

Publications (selection)

  • Sociology: A Guide to Problems & Literature . Allen & Unwin, London 1962.
  • Elites and Society . Watts, London 1964; Penguin, Harmondsworth 1966. (German translation: Elite and Society . Beck, Munich 1974, 3rd edition)
  • Classes in Modern Society . Allen & Unwin, London 1965.
  • Critics of Society: Radical Thought in North America . Allen & Unwin, London 1967
  • Karl Marx (1969)
  • Marxist Sociology (1975)
  • Social stratification . In: René König (Ed.): Handbook of empirical social research . 2nd edition, TB edition, Vol. 5: Social stratification and mobility . Enke, Stuttgart 1976, pp. 1-39.
  • Political Sociology (1979) (German: Political Sociology Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981)
  • (Editor) A Dictionary of Marxist Thought . Blackwell, Oxford 1983 (Paperback 1985)
  • The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (1984)
  • Theories of Modern Capitalism (1985)
  • Between Marginalism and Marxism: The Economic Sociology of JA Schumpeter (1992)
  • The Frankfurt School and Its Critics . Routledge, London 2002.

Editorships

  • (with Robert Nisbet) A History of Sociological Analysis (1979)
  • A Dictionary of Marxist Thought (1983)
  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought (1993)

Translations

  • (with David Frisby) Georg Simmel - The Philosophy of Money (1982)

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personal data
SURNAME Bottomore, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bottomore, Thomas Burton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1920
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1992
Place of death Sussex , England