Fiona Devine
Fiona Devine OBE FAcSS (born June 6 1962) is a professor of sociology at The University of Manchester and head of Manchester Business School.
Devine is best known for a new model of class with seven classes ranging from the Elite at the top to a Precariat at the bottom. She collaborated with the BBC website BBC Lab UK on the Great British Class Survey. More generally Devine specialises social stratification and mobility; class identity; and in gender, work and family . She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Manchester.
She was awarded an OBE for Services to Social Sciences in 2010 and elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.
Selected bibliography
Books
- Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C. (2004). Social inequalities in comparative perspective. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9780631226857.
Book chapters
- Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C. (2004), "Introduction", in Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C., Social inequalities in comparative perspective, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 1–19, ISBN 9780631226857.
- Devine, Fiona (2004), "Talking about class in Britain", in Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C., Social inequalities in comparative perspective, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 191–213, ISBN 9780631226857.
External Links
- MBS details of head of school
- Debrett's People of Today
- Della Bradshaw, Manchester Business School appoints sociologist to top job, Financial Times, Business School News,December 16, 2013 ]
- Biographical details on Stanford web site
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