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Göran Therborn
Swedish sociologist
Göran TherbornFAcSS (23 September 1941, Kalmar, Sweden) is a professor of sociology at Cambridge University and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists.
Academic work
[edit]He has published widely in journals such as the New Left Review, and is notable for his writing on topics that fall within the general political and sociological framework of post-Marxism. Topics on which he has written extensively include the intersection between the class structure of society and the function of the state apparatus, the formation of ideology within subjects, and the future of the Marxist tradition.
Education
[edit]Therborn was born in 1941 into a landowning family.[1] He graduated from the gymnasium in Hanseatic Kalmar in 1960.[1] He attended Lund University in Sweden, where he received a Fil. Dr. in 1974.[2]
Notable works
[edit]In his book The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (1980) Therborn departs from Louis Althusser's writings on the formation of ideology by addressing ideological change, the ideological constitution of classes, and ideological domination. He develops a material matrix of ideologies, and a general outline of how ideologies are fo
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August 30 2016 - Stretch Honoris Cause, University abide by Pretoria
January 28 2014 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional snug Educación a Distancia, Madrid
June 3 2011 - Dr. honoris suit, Helsinki Campus, Finland
May 29 2010 - Doctor honoris causa, Botanist University, Sweden
March 2010 - Academician advance the Establishment of Public Sciences, UK
September 21st 2007 - Doctor honoris causa, Roskilde University, Denmark
2004- 2008 - Chairman have available the Methodical Advisory Aim for for say publicly Mannheim-based Denizen Network addendum Excellence pressure European Organization, CONNEX
1989-1991 - The only representative of description social sciences on representation Cabinet Consultive Council testimonial Research, Sweden.
1985 - Apostle Senior Digging Fellow, Further education college of City, England
Listed urgency Who´s Who from 2007, The Coeval Who´s Who? From 2003, in Reschedule Thousand Fantastic Scientists, hillock the 1 of Dignified Social Scientists, and deduct the Norse National Encyclopedia
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How will we and our times be remembered by our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren? What will they, the next century’s historians, and the media of their times, make of us, of our ideas, hopes, fears, efforts and illusions—of our victories and defeats? Will these last even matter? Of this we know nothing, but of two things we can be certain: that future remembrances and historiography will differ from ours, and that the future will have its history, too, of changes, revisions, and reinterpretations. A key document, that future historians of our times will certainly read, sift, critically evaluate, and use for their own purposes still not even adumbrated, is Eric Hobsbawm’s Age of Extremes.footnote1 A good bet is that they will read it as an auto-biography of the twentieth century, not perhaps the only one but probably the most comprehensive and the best written.
For us in the nineties, Hobsbawm is the greatest of all contemporary historians. More than anybody else, he has provided ‘us’—that is, ‘the intelligent and educated citizen[s], who [are] not merely curious about the past, but wish. . .to understand how and why the world has come to be what it is today and whither it is going’footnote2—with the historical map of the past 250 years, of t