Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a Britishsociologist, noted for his works onglobalisation, the theory of the global age and globalcivil society. He was a full-time faculty member atReading University,University College Cardiff andRoehampton University.

Albrow was appointed in 1963 as the first full-time sociologist atReading University, and subsequently worked atUniversity College Cardiff, where he was Head of Department, and atRoehampton University. He has also held visiting or guest positions atLudwig Maximilian University of Munich, theLondon School of Economics, theState University of New York at Stony Brook, theBeijing Foreign Studies University, and theUniversity of Bonn.^[1][2]

Albrow was President of theBritish Sociological Association from 1985 to 1987, and the editor-in-chief of its journalSociology from 1981 to 1984. Additionally, he was the founding editor of theInternational Sociological Association's journal,International Sociology. He wroteThe Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity, awarded the 1997European Amalfi Prize, which argued against the view that globalisation was an inevitable one-way process, and that a new age had supplanted both themodern and postmodern ages. He is a Fellow of theAcademy of Social Sciences.^{[citation needed]}

Albrow co-editedGlobalization, Knowledge, and Society—the first book to feature “globalization” in its title.^[3]

In recent years, his work has examined China’s development model, governance philosophy, and the concept of a “community with a shared future for mankind,” which he identifies as a significant departure from Western theses such as the “clash of civilizations.^[4]

In an interview with Xinhua on 29 October 2022, Albrow stated that Chinese strongman and Communist Party chiefXi Jinping was an "absolutely outstanding" political theorist and that his so-called Xi Jinping Thought was an "outstanding theoretical achievement of global significance".^[5]

His books include:

• Bureaucracy, London, Pall Mall, 1970;
• Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory, London, Macmillan, 1990;
• The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity, Cambridge, Polity 1996;
• Do Organizations Have Feelings?, London and New York, Routledge, 1997;
• Sociology: The Basics, London and New York, Routledge, 1999;
• Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change, Frankfurt am Main, Klosterman, 2014.

The English-language edition of his bookChina's Role in a Shared Human Future was published in 2018.^[6] The book was launched at theLondon Book Fair.

Albrow lives in London with his wife,Sue Owen.^{[citation needed]}

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