John Rex

John Rex ( born March 5, 1925 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa; † 20 December 2011) was a South African- British sociologist. He was influenced by Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Émile Durkheim and saw himself as a representative of an objective sociology, but he was also always politically engaged.

Life and work

John Rex attended the Primary Grey and Grey High School in Port Elizabeth. From 1943 he served in the British Navy in the Mediterranean Sea in Italy. His B. A. of sociology and philosophy, he acquired in 1945 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown (South Africa ), 1946 same place the BA Honour of Sociology.

When he after his service in the British fleet returned in 1946 after Southern Rhodesia, the then President of the Students' Union, Ian Smith, who later became Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, the excluded Rhodes University, because she let colored students. John Rex was one of the main figures in the campaign for their reinstatement in the Students' Union. He taught near Bulawayo at the Hope Fountain mission school and had decided to write his MA thesis on the General Strike of 1946 in Bulawayo. However, it referred the südrhodesische government of the country, because he was " on the basis of another government information is no longer desirable in Southern Rhodesia" was.

He returned to South Africa, competed there for a visa to the UK and received, with the support of his professor James Irving a post as lecturer at the University of Leeds.

Along with Reverend Michael Scott and the London anti-racist organization, Africa Bureau, he fought the long powerful notion of " white supremacy " ( White Supremacy ) in southern Africa. He also was very active in the campaign for nuclear disarmament and continued to struggle with the struggle against racial discrimination. This prompted him to extend his attention on Islam and the work of the Asian trade unions.

With the fall of the " white supremacy " was for him, but only one has been solved many problems that make our society seem imperfect.

John Rex was married to Pamela Rutherford ( two daughters; divorce 1964) and from 2006 to Margaret Ellen Rex (born Biggs ).

He lived in Warwickshire, England.

Career in detail

  • Teacher at the Hope Fountain mission school and later Head of the Department of Native Affairs of the town of Kimberley
  • Professor of sociology at the University of Leeds, first in the training, then at the sociological Institute in 1945 until 1962.
  • Professor of sociology at the University of Birmingham 1962-1964
  • Professor of sociology at the University of Durham from 1964 to 1970
  • Member of the International Committee of Experts on racism UNESCO since 1967
  • Professor of sociology at the University of Warwick 1970-1984
  • Guest lecturer at the University of Toronto 1973-1974
  • President of the Research Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the International Sociological Association from 1974 to 1982
  • Director of the Research Group on Ethnic Relations of the Social Science Research Institute, University of Aston 1984-1988
  • Director of the Research Group on Ethnic Relations of the Economic and Social Science Research Institute, University of Warwick 1988-1989
  • 1989 John Rex was professor emeritus there.
  • Guest lecturer at New York University in 1995
  • Guest lecturer at the University of Cape Town 1996

John Rex was chairman of the British Sociological Society.

Main Releases

  • Key Problems of Sociological Theory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961 ( an internationally acclaimed contribution to conflict sociology)
  • ( with Robert Moore): Race Community and Conflict, Oxford 1967
  • Race Relations in Sociological Theory. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970
  • ( with Sally Tomlinson ) Colonial Immigrants in a British City - A Class Analysis. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1979
  • Ethnic Minorities in the Modern Nation State - Working Papers in the Theory of Multi- culturalism and Political Integration in European Cities. Basingstoke: MacMillan 1996
  • The Governance of Multicultural Societies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
  • "Empire, Race and Ethnicity ", in: International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol 45, 2004, H. 3, p.161 - 173rd
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