Frank Parkin

Dr. Frank Parkin (b. 1931) is a British sociologist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Kent and editor of the Concepts in the Social Sciences series published by Open University Press.

Biography

Frank Parkin was born in 1931 in Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. He studied at the London School of Economics and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1966. He worked briefly as an assistant lecturer at the University of Hull in 1964 and 1965. By 1974, he was a reader in sociology at the University of Kent. ["Contributors", "The Social Analysis of Class Structure".]

Published works

*"Middle Class Radicalism" (Manchester University Press, 1968)
*"Class Inequality and Political Order" (Granada, 1971)
*"The Social Analysis of Class Structure" (Tavistock Publications, 1974)
*"Marxism and Class Theory" (Columbia University Press, 1979)
*"Class and Stratification in Socialist Societies" (Open University Press, 1981)
*"Max Weber" (Tavistock Publications, 1982)
*"Krippendorf's Tribe" (Atheneum, 1985)
*"The Mind and Body Shop" (Atheneum, 1987)
*"Durkheim" (Oxford University Press, 1992)

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