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John William Offer FAcSS (born 1949 in Wokingham, Berkshire) is a British sociologist who serves as Professor of Social Theory and Policy at Ulster University. His most recent book is Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism: Selected Writings of Robert Pinker, jointly edited by John Offer and Robert Pinker, published by Policy Press in 2017.
David Forbes Hendry, British economist, currently professor of economics and head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford Sir John Richards Hicks , winner of the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Kenneth J. Arrow for their pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory
The background of staff in the department include economics, political science, sociology, health economics, demography and behavioural psychology. The department has active research in a broad range of substantive areas including poverty and social exclusion , education policy, housing policy, children and families policy, welfare and work ...
'The SPS archway' at the Old Cavendish Laboratory, Free School Lane Alison Richard Building. The Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science at the University of Cambridge was created in 2011 out of a merger of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies.
As sociology arose primarily as a reaction to capitalist modernity, economics played a role in much classic sociological inquiry. The specific term "economic sociology" was first coined by William Stanley Jevons in 1879, later to be used in the works of Émile Durkheim , Max Weber and Georg Simmel between 1890 and 1920. [ 1 ]
Anthony David Stephen Smith [1] (23 September 1939 – 19 July 2016) was a British historical sociologist who, at the time of his death, was Professor Emeritus of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics. [2] He is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies.
The department's primary focus lies in interdisciplinary research, particularly in the intersection of politics and sociology with economics, psychology and human decision making. Statistics, microeconomics, rational decision theory and game theory are among the many areas of specialization.
This is a list of UCAS institutions.The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service manages higher education applications in the UK, [1] and each institution has a code for use in the application process.