Nicholas Abercrombie
Nicholas Abercrombie is a British sociologist and retired academic. He was Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University from 1990 to 2004.
Education and career
Born in Birmingham in 1944, Abercrombie's father Michael and mother Jane (née Johnson) were academics. He was educated at The [Queen's College, Oxford], graduating with a BA in 1966. He then completed an MSc at the London School of Economics in 1968.Abercrombie worked as a research officer in town planning at University College London from 1968 to 1970, when he joined Lancaster University as a lecturer. He then carried out doctoral studies there and obtained a PhD in 1980. In 1983, he was promoted to a senior lectureship and in 1988 became reader in sociology. In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Sociology at Lancaster, and in 1995 became Pro-Vice Chancellor. He retired in 2004.
Publications
- Class, Structure, and Knowledge.
- The Dominant Ideology Thesis.
- Capital, Labour, and the Middle Classes.
- The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology.
- Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism.
- Contemporary British Society.
- Dominant Ideologies.
- Enterprise Culture.
- Social Change in Contemporary Britain.
- Stratification and Social Inequality: Studies in British Society.
- Family, Household, and Life-Course: Studies in British Society.
- The Authority of the Consumer.
- Television and Society.
- Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination.
- The Contemporary British Society Reader.