British sociologist
Thomas Burton Bottomore
Born (1920-04-08 ) 8 April 1920Died 9 December 1992(1992-12-09) (aged 72) Occupation sociologist
Thomas Burton Bottomore (8 April 1920, England – 9 December 1992,Sussex , England) was a BritishMarxist sociologist .[ 1]
Bottomore was Secretary of theInternational Sociological Association from 1953 to 1959. He was the eighth president of ISA (1974-1978).[ 2]
He was a prolific editor and translator of Marxist works, notably his collections published in 1963:Marx's Early Writings andSelected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy .
He was Reader in Sociology at theLondon School of Economics from 1952 to 1964.[ 1] Simon Fraser University ,Vancouver from 1965 to 1967, leaving after a dispute over academic freedom. He was Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Sussex from 1968 to 1985.[ 3] [ 1]
Bottomore edited and contributed to numerous journals of sociology and political science, and editedA Dictionary of Marxist Thought in 1983 and co-edited (withWilliam Outhwaite )The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth century Social Thought published posthumously in 1993.
Bottomore was a member of theBritish Labour Party .
Classes in Modern Society (London: Ampersand, 1955; London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965)ISBN 9780043230015 Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology & Social Philosophy (London: Watts, 1956; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) editor withMaximilien Rubel ISBN 9780140205633 Sociology: A Guide to Problems & Literature (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962)ISBN 9780415578936 Early Writings of Karl Marx (London: Watts, 1963) editor and translatorOCLC 35082145 Elites and Society (London: Watts, 1964; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966; Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1967; New York: Penguin, 1970; London: Routledge, 1993)ISBN 9780415082716 Critics of Society: Radical Thought in North America (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967)ISBN 9780043230190 Karl Marx (Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1956)ISBN 9780631110613 Karl Marx (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973) editorISBN 9780135597088 Sociology as Social Criticism (London: Allen & Unwin, 1975) ISBN 0-04-301068-7 : £4.25, 0-04-301069-5 (Pbk) : £2.10Marxist Sociology (London: Macmillan, 1975) ISBN 0-333-18754-7 : £2.95, 0-333-13774-4 (pbk) : £1.25A History of Sociological Analysis editor withRobert Nisbet (New York: Basic Books, 1979) ISBN 0-465-03023-8 : $29.50, 0-465-03024-6 (pbk)Modern Interpretations of Marx (1981) editor,ISBN 0-631-18040-0 Georg Simmel – The Philosophy of Money (1982, 2004, 2011)) translator withDavid Frisby ISBN 978-0-415-61011-7A Dictionary of Marxist Thought editor (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983) ISBN 0-631-12852-2Sociology and Socialism (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1984) ISBN 0-7108-0230-7 : £15.95, 0-7108-0235-8 (pbk) : £4.95Theories of Modern Capitalism (London: Allen & Unwin, 1985) ISBN 0-04-301186-1 (pbk.)Interpretations of Marx editor (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988) ISBN 0-631-15256-3The Capitalist Class: An International Study withRobert J. Brym (New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989) ISBN 0-7450-0296-XThe Socialist Economy-Theory and Practice (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990) ISBN 0-7450-0118-1, 0-7450-0119-X (pbk)Between Marginalism and Marxism: The Economic Sociology of J A Schumpeter (New York: St Martin's Press, 1992) ISBN 0-312-09105-2The Frankfurt School (London: Tavistock, 1984, 1995) ISBN 0-85312-458-2 (Libr. ed.), 0-85312-468-X (Stud. ed.)
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