Jan Pakulski
Jan Pakulski is a Polish-born Australian sociologist.
He received a master's degree in sociology in 1973 at the University of Warsaw, and has been living in Australia since 1975 where he completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 1980.
Pakulski taught at the University of Tasmania. He was named professor of sociology in 1998, served as head of the School of Sociology and Social Work from 1998 to 2001, and was executive dean of arts between 2001 and 2008. He has held the title of emeritus professor since 2014 and was a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, at St Antony's College, Oxford, a visiting professor at Nanyang University, Singapore, and an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University. He was also part of the editorial board of the Polish Sociological Review. From 2015, he served as a Professor at Collegium Civitas, Warsaw.
His book The Death Of Class has been used as an undergraduate textbook.
His most recent publication, a chapter titled The Development Of Elite Theory in the Palgrave Handbook Of Elites is targeted at policy-makers and members of parliament.