Social Theory and Political Sociology : Sociology : University of Sussex

Sussex has a long-standing reputation in the area of Social Theory and Political Sociology, notably the work of our former colleagues Zev Barbu, Tom Bottomore, Julius Carlebach, Mary Farmer, Gillian Rose, Peter Saunders and William Outhwaite. This tradition is continued by the current faculty who, in addition to their work on Europe, cosmopolitanism, citizenship, nation, social movements/civil society, globalisation, social divisions such as race and gender, identity and everyday life have played an active part in the related graduate programme in Social and Political Thought and in the Centre for Social and Political Thought, as well as involvement with the European Journal for Social Theory.

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Faculty working in this area are:

Gerard Delanty is an interdisciplinary sociologist with an interest in social theory and the cultural analysis of social and political questions. He has published a number of books, including: Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality, (1995); Social Theory in a Changing World: Conceptions of Modernity (1999); Citizenship in the Global Age: Culture, Society and Politics (2000) and, with Chris Rumford, Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (2005).

Barbara Einhorn has research interests in gender, citizenship, and civil society; economic, political and social transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe; nation, identity and religion; migration and displacement. She teaches Gender, Nation and Identity, and supervises third year projects. She is the author of Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe (1993), Citizenship in an Enlarging Europe: From Dream to Awakening (2006) and Gender and Nation (forthcoming, 2009)

Luke Martell is a political sociologist with interests in globalisation, socialism and social democracy, New Labour and the third way, and environmentalism. He is completing a book on the Sociology of Globalisation for Polity Press and has published articles in this area. He is author with Stephen Driver of New Labour (1998) and Blair's Britain (2002) and co-editor of Social Democracy: global and national perspectives (2001) and The Third Way and Beyond: criticisms, futures, alternatives (2004). He is also author of Ecology and Society (1994), and has also published on socialism

Alana Lentin is a political sociologist and social theorist with a critical focus on race, racism and anti-racism as well as social movements and migrant collective action. Her major publications include Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe (2004), Race and State (co-edited with Ronit Lentin (2006/2008) and Racism: A Beginner's Guide (2008). Her articles can be found in journals such as the European Journal of Social Theory, Patterns of Prejudice, and Ethnic and Racial Studies and can be accessed via her personal website. She is currently organising an international colloquium on Questioning the Eurpean 'Crisis of Multiculturalism'.

Monica Sassatelli is a sociologist with interests in the sociology of culture, European studies and social theory. She has published on these topics in journals such as the European Journal of Social Theory, European Societies, and Sociology. Her monograph Becoming Europeans. Cultural identity and Cultural Policies is in press (Palgrave Macmillan,
2009).

Darrow Schecter specialises in 19th and 20th century political theory and history, theories of libertarian socialism and questions concerning the relation between legality and legitimacy. Among his publications are: Radical Theories: Paths beyond Marxism and Social Demoncracy (1994); Sovereign States or Political Communities? Civil Society and Contemporary Politics (2000); Beyond Hegemony: toward a new philosophy of political legitimacy (2005)

Susie Scott has research interests in the areas of American sociology, particularly Symbolic Interactionism, ethnomethodology and interpretivist theory. She has published articles on shyness and self-identity, Goffman's dramaturgical theory, the medicalisation of social problems, and the anti-psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Susie is the author of Shyness and Society (2007) and Interpreting Everyday Life (forthcoming 2009).

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