Gavin MacKenzie (sociologist)

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Gavin George Newing MacKenzie (8 March 1942 – 18 September 2001) was a British political scientist and sociologist.

Life

Gavin George Newing MacKenzie was born on 8 March 1942 in

embourgeoisement in the United States". He was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Leicester (1968–70) and then in 1970 joined the University of Cambridge as a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and as a faculty assistant lecturer (1970–73); at Jesus College, he was a tutor from 1972 and senior tutor in 1982. While at Cambridge, he collaborated with Anthony Giddens. In 1992, he left academia to work for the consultancy Saxton Bampfylde Hever. He died aged 59, on 18 September 2001 in London.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Gavin Mackenzie", Archiv für die Geschichte der Soziologie in Österreich [Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria] (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Dr G. G. N. MacKenzie", University of Leicester. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  3. ^ For his MA, see "The economic dimension of embourgeoisment", Brown University. For his PhD, see "Middle class craftsman: A test of selected aspects of the thesis of embourgeoisement in the United States", Brown University. Both retrieved 23 September 2018.