John Goldthorpe#
| Membership Number: | 152 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/sociology/Group/goldthorpe.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Visiting Professorial Fellow, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, London
- 2004 - 2008 Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Oxford University
- 2003 - 2005 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
- 2003 Nuffield College, Oxford, Emeritus Fellow
- 1969 - 2002 Nuffield College, Oxford, Official Fellow
- 1961 - 1969 University of Cambridge, Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Politics
- 1960 - 1969 King's College, Cambridge, Fellow
- 1957 - 1960 University of Leicester, Junior Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology
Fields of Scholarship
- Social stratification
- Social mobility, especially the role of education
- Integration of sociological research and theory
Honours and Awards
- 1956 Pollard Prize for work in the sources of English history, University College London
- 1979 Fuller Bequest Lecturer, University of Essex
- 1984 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1984 Helsinki University Medal
- 1988 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1989 Marshall Memorial Lecturer, University of Southampton
- 1990 Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, University of Stockholm
- 1993 Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Lecturer, University of Oslo
- 1998 Geary Memorial Lecturer, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
- 2001 Maxwell Cummings Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal
- 2001 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the advancemen of the social sciences.
- 2003 European Academy of Sociology, Annual Lecture, Paris
