Tom B. Bottomore
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)
Web links
- obituary
- Literature by and about Tom B. Bottomore in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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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 |