Aage B. Sørensen

Aage B. Sørensen ( born May 13, 1941 in Silkeborg, † April 18, 2001 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was a Danish- American sociologist.

Sørensen studied at the University of Copenhagen and in 1967 was there the first graduate of the newly established master 's program Sociology. In 1968 he left Denmark to conduct research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. There he received his doctorate with a thesis on models of processes of career mobility. From 1971 to 1984 he taught at the University of Wisconsin- Madison (with a brief interruption as a professor at the University of Oslo ). From 2001 until his death he was a professor at Harvard University.

Sørensen has researched and published on the problems of sociology of education, labor market research, social research, and the research on inequality. To the latter he presented arises a much-publicized approach, according to which social inequality through the monopolization of pensions. For the mathematical formulation of sociological question he presented fundamental contributions.