Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford

Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, known as WG ( Garry ) Runciman CBE ( born October 10, 1934) is a British nobleman and sociologist.

Life and work

Runciman comes from a family of ship-owners and politicians. His grandfather, Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, nearly 40 years as a member of the House of Commons and Minister for many years and in various Liberal governments had been.

Runciman received his school and academic education at Eton College and at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. With a scholarship to Harvard and Berkeley, he sat between 1958 to 1960 in the United States his academic education. In 1959 he became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge until 1963. Afterwards he was businessman, but returned again in 1971 as a Fellow of his return to college where he taught comparative and historical sociology. In 1975 he became a member of the British Academy, he served as its president from 2001 to 2005.

The universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and York, and King's College London have awarded him an honorary doctorate.

In 1989 he inherited the title of Viscount Runciman of Doxford. The associated seat in the House of Lords he lost by the House of Lords Act 1999.

Runciman is married to Ruth Runciman. His wife was chairman of the now defunct Mental Health Act Commission. Their son David Runciman is a well-known political scientist, his uncle Steven Runciman was an eminent historian who has written a three-volume history of the Crusades.

Work

Runciman's book Relative Deprivation and Social Justice (1966 ) is regarded as a social science masterpiece. He succeeded to the author, unlock differentiated in an interdisciplinary manner with approaches from sociology, social psychology and history, the relationship between the actual inequality and their subjective perception and evaluation. To determine the relative ( "perceived " ) deprivation he used the concept of the reference group, in the triple form: the comparative reference group ( reference group ), the normative reference group ( it provides the standards for comparison ) and the membership reference group ( group membership ). The book has greatly influenced the debate on social justice.

Selections

  • Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth - Century Britain (1966 )
  • Social Science and Political Theory ( 1969)
  • A Critique of Max Weber 's Philosophy of Social Science (1972 )
  • A Treatise on Social Theory, Vol I: The Methodology of Social Theory (1983 ), Vol 2 (1989 ), Vol 3 (1997),
  • The Social Animal ( 1998)
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