Margaret Archer#
| Membership Number: | 1439 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/archer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1979 - present Professor at University of Warwick
- 1973 - 1979 Reader at University of Warwick
- 1966 - 1973 Lecturer at University of Reading
- 1964 - 1966 Supervisor at Christ's College, Cambridge
- 1967 - Ph.D. at London School of Economics at University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative and historical development of social institutions
- Constitutive of ‘social structure’
- Elaboration of my ‘Morphogenetic Approach’ as a theoretical framework for practical use in substantive institutional investigations
- Prospects for the transformation of late Modernity into a fully morphogenetic global society
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Founder Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
- Member of European Amalfi Prize Scientific Committee
- Member of Academia Europea
- Member of (Austrian) Wittgenstein Prize Committee
- Member of Presidential Nominating Committee and World Congress Programme Committee of the International Sociological Association
