Gordon Marshall (sociologist)
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Gordon Marshall
Education
Born in Falkirk, Gordon Marshall was educated at Falkirk High School, the University of Stirling (BA Sociology 1974) and Nuffield College, Oxford (DPhil 1978).
Career
Prior to joining the Leverhulme Trust, Gordon Marshall was
Between 2007 and 2011 he was also Chairman of the Higher Education Statistics Agency, and from 2013 to 2017 was Chair of the UK Data Service/Digital Information Strategic Advisory Committee.
Previous to this, Marshall was the
Like his predecessor Ron Amman, Marshall was a distinguished social science researcher, before being appointed to the
Research
Marshall has made important contributions to interdisciplinary and cross-national comparative work in the social sciences. His main fields of research include social exclusion, equality of opportunity, distributive justice and the culture of economic enterprise, and he has written widely on these topics. He played an instrumental role in the Government Review of social classifications, both as a consultant and as a member of the steering group to the study, which was run jointly by the
Marshall's early research was focused on
His single-authored volume Repositioning Class: Social Inequality in Industrial Societies[9], also published in 1997, brought together a number of his essays from the previous decade, in which he argues that public pronouncements about the death of social class were greatly exaggerated. As Marshall wrote in the preface to this volume, “Social class is as important to the understanding of late twentieth-century industrial societies as it was to their early capitalist counterparts and class analysis is probably now in a healthier state than at any previous time in its long sociological history”.
Marshall’s main contribution to Nuffield sociology was his connection of concepts of social justice with social mobility. He argued persuasively that political intervention is required to prevent class inequalities from impeding the advance of social justice.
During the 1990s Marshall also played an important part in the creation of the department of sociology at
Awards and honours
He was an Official Fellow of
Marshall has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Aberdeen, Exeter, Reading and Stirling.
References
- ^ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 20 June 2013. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
Prof Gordon Marshall, Vice–Chancellor of the University of Reading, 2003–11, 61
- ^ a b "Farewell Vice-Chancellor". University of Reading. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ "Reading confirms physics closure". BBC News. 21 November 2006. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
- ^ Newman, Melanie (19 February 2009). "Institutions draw up plans for closures and job losses". Times Higher Education.
- ^ SSRC/ESRC the first forty years – researched by Analiza Gaber and Ivor Gaber and edited by Selina Fox.
- ^ a b "Professor Gordon Marshall". University of Reading. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ISBN 978-0955905506.
- ISBN 0198292392.)
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