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Details for Professor Gregor McLennan
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| Name | Professor Gregor McLennan | ||||||
| Job title | Professor of Sociology |
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| Department | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.A.(Hons)(Bristol), M.A., Ph.D.(Birm.) | ||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | British Sociological Association |
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| Keywords | ideology and politics knowledge, science and society theories of society the role of the state social class culture and society the circulation of ideas public intellectuals |
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| Areas of expertise | I am a social theorist and analyst of contemporary culture and politics. I have published widely on social ideas and ideologies, the role of the state, the changing nature of social class, the emergence of the 'talk society' and the role of knowledge/ideas/intellectuals in the knowledge society. |
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| Media experience | Radio interviews TV programme maker and interviewer for Open University social science courses Interviewed in Times Higher Regular local newspaper columnist in New Zealand in 1990s |
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