Vital Signs 2: Keynote speakers - David Inglis
Biography
David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and the University of York. He is an Academician of the UK Academy of the Social Sciences. He has written in the areas of the history of social thought, historical sociology, the sociologies of culture, art and aesthetics, and the cultural sociology of globalization. He is particularly concerned with issues of irony and reflexivity within the social sciences, and the roles of the social sciences within the production of modern social orders. His books include The Globalization of Food (Berg, 2009), The Sociology of Art: Ways of Seeing (Palgrave, 2005), Culture and Everyday Life (Routledge. 2005) and Confronting Culture: Sociological Vistas (Polity, 2003). He has been on the editorial and advisory boards of a range of journals, most recently European Journal of Social Theory and the Journal of Sociology. He is founding editor of the journal Cultural Sociology, published by Sage and the British Sociological Association.
See David's web page for more details of his research and publications [opens in a new window]
David will be giving a plenary session on Wednesday 8 September entitled TBC
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