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Nicholas Abercrombie was born in 1944 and educated at The Queen's College, Oxford University, and the London School of
Economics. He was employed as a research officer at University College London, before moving to the University of Lancaster first as
lecturer and then as senior lecturer. He is now Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster. Professor Abercrombie has
written books and articles on the sociology of knowledge, theory of culture, popular culture, sociological theory and class theory.
These include Class, Structure and Knowledge and, with J. Urry, Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes. With other members of the
Department of Sociology at Lancaster, he has written Contemporary British Society.
Stephen Hill was born in 1946 and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics where pleted his
. in 1973. He is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics where he has also held the posts of lecturer in
sociology, lecturer in industrial relations and reader in sociology. He has written The Dockers petition and Control at Work,
as well as many articles in his field. His main academic interests are social stratification and the sociology of management and
industrial Hill is chief examiner for sociology at one of the major school examination boards.
Bryan S. Turner was born in 1945 and attended the University of Leeds where pleted his BA (1966) and . (1970). He was
a lecturer in sociology at the University of Aberdeen from 1969 to 1974 and then at the University of Lancaster until 1978, when he
returned to Aberdeen as senior lecturer and subsequently reader. In 1982 he was appointed to the chair of sociology at the Flinders
University of South Australia, and in 1988 he became Professor of Social Science at the University of Utrecht. He subsequently
became Professor of Sociology at the University of