Professor David Inglis The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science Chair in Sociology (Head of Department - Sociology) work +44 (0)1224 273714 work fax +44 (0)1224 272552 pref d.inglis@abdn.ac.uk pref F4, Edward Wright Building

---

Biography

MA (Hons.), Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge. First class honours.
PhD, University of York.

 

Honours

Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (ACSS)

 

Professional Activities

I am on the organising committee of the Research Network for Sociology of Culture, European Sociological Association, 2007-present 

I am an International Fellow, Cultural Sociology Research Group, The Australian Sociological Association, 2006 - present

I am a member of the Advisory Board of the Social Aesthetics Research Unit, Monash University

I was a member of the British Sociological Association's Executive Committee, 2004-7.

I was Co-Chair of the BSA’s Publications Committee, 2004-7.

I was a Judge, Philip Abrams Prize, British Sociological Association, 2005, 2006

 

Journal Activities

I am Editor of 'Cultural Sociology', published by Sage and a journal of the British Sociological Association.
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/cus/

I am a member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Sociology (Sage), 2009 - present

I am on the International Editorial Board of the European Journal of Social Theory, 2006 - present

I am on the Editorial Board of the Open Sociology Journal, 2008-present.

I was on the editorial board of the journal 'Sociology' (Sage) 2003-2005.

 

^ top

Research Interests

Sociology of culture / cultural sociology / sociology of art & aesthetics

Sociological, social and cultural theory

Cultural globalization

Historical sociology, esp. ancient Greece and Rome

Culture, society and nature

^ top

Current Research

I would describe myself as a theoretically and historically-oriented cultural sociologist.

My work is primarily located at the interface of history and social theory - testing the latter in light of the former, and reinterpreting the former in light of the latter.

I have written within these sorts of contexts:

• The conceptual cores of 19th and 20th century social theories (especially as these deal with the concepts of 'culture' and 'nature') and the roots of these in ancient Greek and Roman conceptual systems
• Differing accounts of globalization and globality, especially as regards cultures and aesthetics, including food cultures and cuisines
• Proto-sociological understandings of the 'global ', especially in ancient Greek and Roman philosophies and historiographies.
• The analysis of historically-situated modes of consciousness, both in modernity and in the ancient Mediterranean world
• Sociological (and other) accounts of 'high culture' and 'art', and the limits of such accounts
• Sociological (and other) accounts of 'nature', the nature of the human body, and the nature of 'animals', and the limits of such accounts

Sociology is for me in essence the ironic depiction of the ironies of human existence, that is, an ironic take on historical irony. My writing is increasingly about such issues. 

I am also oriented towards reflexive sociologies of sociology, as these reveal the tacit dimensions of forms of modern consciousness. 

^ top

Teaching Responsibilities

I teach courses in the areas of classical sociological theory, modern social theory, and the sociology of art and culture.

I also lecture in the Department's introductory sociology programmes.

^ top

Postgraduate Supervision

I am interested in supervising students in the areas of social and cultural theory, and the sociology of culture.

I have supervised, or currently supervise, students on these sorts of topics:

• The Cultural Politics of Migration Museums
• Perception in the Anthropology and Sociology of Art
• The Cultural Sociology of Young Conservatives
• English representations of Italy from Chaucer to the present day
• Closed Circuit Television Surveillance and Urban Governance
• Family Photography and National Identity
• Young Men, Dance and Risk
• New Models of Hollywood Stardom

^ top

Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Inglis, D. (2011). 'A Durkheimian Account of Globalization: The Construction of Global Moral Culture'. Durkheimian Studies, vol 17, no. 1, pp. 103-120.
• Inglis, D. (2010). 'The Zombie from Myth to Reality: Wade Davis, Academic Scandal and the Limits of the Real'. SCRIPT-ed, vol 7, no. 2, pp. 351-369.
  [Online] DOI: 10.2966/scrip.070210.351
• Bone, JD. & Inglis, D. (2006). 'Boundary maintenance, border crossing and the nature/culture divide'. European Journal of Social Theory, vol 9, no. 2, pp. 272-287.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/1368431006064188

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Inglis, D. & Delanty, G. (2010). 'An Overview of the Field of Cosmopolitan Studies'. D Inglis & G Delanty (eds), in: Cosmopolitanism. Critical Concepts in Sociology, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 1-27.
• Inglis, D. & Gimlin, DL. (2009). 'Food Globalizations: Ironies and Ambivalences of Food, Cuisine and Globality'. D. & G D. (eds), in: The Globalization of Food. Berg Publishers, Oxford, pp. 3-44.
• Wilkie, RM. & Inglis, D. (2007). 'Animals and Humans: The Unspoken Basis of Social Life'. R Wilkie & DI (eds), in: Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in in the Social Sciences. vol. 1-5, Critical Concepts in in the Social Sciences, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 1-46.
• Inglis, D., Bone, JD. & Wilkie, RM. (2005). 'Nature: Perceiving the 'Natural' Inside and Outside of Social Scientific Boundaries'. D Inglis, J Bone & R Wilkie (eds), in: Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. vol. 1-4, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 1-26.

Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Inglis, D. 'Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft'. in: The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

Books and Reports

Books

• Inglis, D. & Gimlin, DL. (eds) (2009). 'The Globalization of Food'. Berg Publishers, Oxford.
• Inglis, D., Gimlin, DL. & Thorpe, C. (eds) (2007). 'Food and Society'. Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Routledge, London, UK.

Scholarly Editions

• Wilkie, RM. & Inglis, D. (eds) (2007). 'Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences'. Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, vol. 1-5, Routledge, London.
• Inglis, D., Bone, JD. & Wilkie, RM. (eds) (2005). 'Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences'. Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Routledge, London, United Kingdom.

^ top

update

‹ back

Department of Sociology

School of Social Science · Edward Wright Building · University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen · AB24 3QY
t: +44 (0)1224-272760 · f: +44 (0)1224-272552 · e: sociology@abdn.ac.uk