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Alan Warde, FBA, FAcSS (born 18 August 1949)[1] is a British sociologist and academic. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester since 1999.

Education and career[edit]

Born in 1949, Warde was educated at Downing College, Cambridge,[1] graduating with a BA in 1971.[2] He then completed an MA at Durham University and carried out doctoral studies at the University of Leeds;[1] his PhD was awarded in 1976 for his thesis "Ideology, strategy and intra-party division in the British Labour Party, 1956-74".[3]

Warde was appointed to a lectureship at Lancaster University in 1978 and was promoted to a readership there in 1994, before becoming a full professor in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.[1]

Honours and awards[edit]

In 2018, Warde was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4] In 2011, he had also been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[1]

Publications[edit]

  • Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 1982).
  • (Co-authored with Nicholas Abercrombie) Social Change in Contemporary Britain (Polity, 1992).
  • (Co-authored with Nicholas Abercrombie) Stratification and Social Inequality: Studies in British Society (Framework, 1994).
  • (Co-authored with Nicholas Abercrombie) Family, Household and the Life-Course: Studies in British Society (Framework, 1994).
  • (Co-authored with Mike Savage) Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity (Palgrave, 1993; 2nd ed. with Kevin Ward, 2002).
  • (Co-authored with Stephen Edgell and Kevin Hetherington) Consumption Matters: The Production and Experience of Consumption (Wiley, 1996).
  • Consumption, Food and Taste: Culinary Antimonies and Commodity Culture (Sage, 1997).
  • (Co-authored with Lydia Martens) Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
  • (Edited with Nicholas Abercrombie, Rosemary Deem, Sue Penna, Keith Soothill, Andrew Sayer, John Urry and Sylvia Walby) Contemporary British Society: A New Introduction to Sociology (Polity, 2000).
  • (Edited with Jukka Gronow) Ordinary Consumption (Routledge, 2001).
  • (Edited with Nicholas Abercrombie) The Contemporary British Society Reader (Polity, 2001).
  • (Edited with Stan Metcalfe) Market Relations and the Competitive Process (Manchester University Press, 2002).
  • (Edited with Mark Harvey and Andrew Mcmeekin) Qualities of Food (Manchester University Press, 2004).
  • (Co-authored with Unni Kjaernes and Mark Harvey) Trust in Food: An Institutional and Comparative Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
  • (Co-authored with Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright) Culture, Class, Distinction (Routledge, 2009).
  • The Practice of Eating (Polity, 2016).
  • Consumption: A Sociological Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Warde, Prof. Alan", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  2. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 (Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 1421.
  3. ^ "Ideology, strategy and intra-party division in the British Labour Party, 1956–74", Leeds University Library. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy", British Academy, 20 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
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