Margaret Archer
English sociologist (1943–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Margaret Scotford Archer FAcSS MAE (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was an English sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology. She was also a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach. On 14 April 2014, Archer was named by Pope Francis to succeed former Harvard law professor and US Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences,[2] and served in this position until her retirement on 27 March 2019.
Margaret Archer | |
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Born | (1943-01-20)20 January 1943 Grenoside, England |
Died | 21 May 2023(2023-05-21) (aged 80) |
Other names | Margaret Scotford Archer |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | London School of Economics |
Thesis | The Educational Aspirations of English Working Class Parents (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | David Glass |
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Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociology |
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School or tradition | Critical realism |
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Main interests | Structure and agency |
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Notable ideas | Elisionism |