Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on globalization, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He was appointed in 1963 as the first full-time sociologist at Reading University, and subsequently worked at University College Cardiff, where he was Head of Department, and at Roehampton University. He has also held visiting or guest positions at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the London School of Economics, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the University of Bonn.[1][2]
Albrow was President of the British Sociological Association from 1985 to 1987, and the editor-in-chief of its journal Sociology from 1981 to 1984. Additionally, he was the founding editor of the International Sociological Association's journal, International Sociology. He wrote The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity, awarded the 1997 European Amalfi Prize, which argued against the view that globalization was an inevitable one-way process, and that a new age had supplanted both the modern and postmodern ages. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Albrow lives in London with his wife, Sue Owen.
His books include: Bureaucracy, London, Pall Mall, 1970; Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory, London, Macmillan, 1990; The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity, Cambridge, Polity 1996; Do Organizations Have Feelings?, London and New York, Routledge, 1997; Sociology: The Basics, London and New York, Routledge, 1999; and Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change, Frankfurt am Main, Klosterman, 2014. The English-language edition of his book China's Role in a Shared Human Future was published in 2018.[3] The book was launched at the London Book Fair.
In an interview with Xinhua on 29 October 2022, Albrow stated that Chinese strongman and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping was an "absolutely outstanding" political theorist and that his so-called Xi Jinping Thought was an "outstanding theoretical achievement of global significance".[4]
^"The End of the Global Age? An Interview with Martin Albrow". globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
^"Book detailing China's role in shared human future launched at London Book Fair". Xinhua. 2018-04-10. Archived from the original on April 15, 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
MartinAlbrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on globalization, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He was...
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learned more from reading Mr Fisher's reports than from being there. Desmond Albrow followed Fisher as editor during the later sessions of Vatican II. Writing...
A.; Coutures, C.; Greenhill, J.; Hill, K.; Menzies, J.; Sackett, P. D.; Albrow, M.; Brillant, S. (2006-01-01). "Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth...
A.; Coutures, C.; Greenhill, J.; Hill, K.; Menzies, J.; Sackett, P. D.; Albrow, M.; Brillant, S. (1 January 2006). "Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth...
Vermeer's Hat United Nations Millennium Declaration Washington Consensus Albrow, Martin and Elizabeth King (eds.) (1990). Globalization, Knowledge and Society...
Publications, 2013. "Editorial foreword: Christianity and liberty". [2] Albrow, Martin. (1990). Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory. London: MacMillan...
S2CID 170944520. Project MUSE 808748. Albrow, Martin (1990). Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory (First ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-20879-1...
History of the Florentine people, Volume 1, Books 1–4 (2001), p. xvii. Albrow, Martin, The Global Age: state and society beyond modernity (1997), Stanford...
ISBN 978-1135996260. Archived from the original on 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2018-05-01. Albrow, M., Bureaucracy (1970) Armstrong, J. A., The European Administrative Elite...
to Bureaucracy. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bureaucracy. Albrow, Martin. Bureaucracy. (London: Macmillan, 1970). Cheng, Tun-Jen, Stephan Haggard...
Rhetoric for Modern Democracy. University of Chicago Press. (1996). Albrow, Martin (1996). the Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity. Stanford...
Afghanistan, Iran, and Egypt. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 978-3-16-148787-3. Albrow, Martin (1970). Bureaucracy (Key Concepts in Political Science). London: Palgrave...
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