Martin Albrow

Biographic Data

ID115249
NAMEMartin Albrow
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMEAlbrow
SIGNATUREALBROW M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College, Cardiff
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS121
AUTHOR COUNT67
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX7

  • Reforming Global Governance

    Anthony Giddens, Dan Chugg et al.ARTICLEJournal of China in Global and…2022

    The 7th Global China Dialogue was organised by Global China Academy and ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, with support from Tsinghua University, China, for organising speakers from China, on the 10th December at the British Academy, London. Presented here are summaries of special addresses of Opening and Closing sessions and abstracts of panel speeches. Full speeches will be published in Reforming Global G…

  • The ‘community of shared destiny’ under conditions of imperfect understanding

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowCHAPTERWissen in der Transnationalisierung2020

  • The 'community of shared destiny' under conditions of imperfect understanding

    Martin AlbrowCHAPTERWissen in der Transnationalisierung2020

    Martin Albrow regards the Chinese President Xi's appeal to the nations of the world to create a »community of shared destiny« as a challenge to all those, including American President Trump, who consider a future community of nations can only be based on shared values. This was a central issue for the Neo-Kantian debates on values at the beginning of the twentieth century. They suggest that values are based in the unique historical experience of …

  • Max Weber

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowARTICLETheory Culture & Society2020Cited by: 2References: 12

    Lighting upon Weber as a history student in the late 1950s led to all round engagement with his work to the present day, beginning with rationality and bureaucracy, passing through appreciation of his synoptic vision of modernity, and arguing for the continuing relevance of his rationalization thesis. This emphasis on Weber's contribution to understanding the course of modernity led in the 1990s to pointing out that his approach to epochal shift …

  • The Application of the Weberian Concept of Rationalization to Contemporary Conditions

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowCHAPTERMax Weber Ration & Modern MW52014

    Friedrich Nietzsche&s;s and Max Weber&s;s views of modernity are similar in at least two respects. One is their pessimism about the vacuum left in the modern world due to the decline of religious ideals; the second lies in their advocacy of powerful leaders as a possible remedy against this decline. In Nietzsche&s;s and Weber&s;s writings on religion there is a fundamental contrast between the nature and impact of primitive and universalist relig…

  • Weber and the Concept of Adaptation

    Martin Albrow, Zhang Xiaoying et al.ARTICLEMax Weber Studies2014Cited by: 2References: 19

    Throughout his work Weber made extensive use of a concept of adaptation, usually associated with evolutionism, but he was as critical of it as he was of historical materialism and in his concern for identifying the precise importance of ideas in explaining historical developments he rejected both grand narratives. We can detect through examining the sequence of his writing on Chinese ethics how his idea of adaptation to the world evolved over tim…

  • Sociology

    Martin AlbrowBOOKSociology2013Cited by: 3

    This is a book for anyone who wants to know what sociology is and what sociologists do. In a subject which has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, Sociology: The Basics offers the most up to date guide to the major topics and areas of debate. It covers among other things:* sociology and society* laws, morality and science* social relations* power and communication* society in the future* becoming a sociologist.Clearly written, concis…

  • ‘Big Society’ as a Rhetorical Intervention

    Martin AlbrowCHAPTERBig Society Debate2012

  • Reconstituting the Public-Private Divide under Global Conditions

    Open AccessWillemijn Dicke, Martin AlbrowARTICLEGlobal Social Policy2005References: 9

    How is the line to be drawn in the public-private divide when those who would bridge it also assert that globalization restricts the state’s ability to deliver public policy objectives? Critics of modernity have seen the distinction between two public-private discourses, state and market, the open and the hidden, as a modern flawed version of classic notions of the democratic citizen community. The projection of the divide on to a global stage ap…

  • Books Reviewed

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowARTICLESociology2000

  • Sociology

    Martin AlbrowBOOKSociology1999

  • Europa im globalen Zeitalter

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowARTICLEBerliner Journal für Soziologie1998

  • Elizabeth King, 1949-98

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowARTICLEInternational Sociology1998

  • The global age

    Martin AlbrowBOOKThe global age1996

    This study argues that a history of the present needs an explicit epochal theory to understand the transition to the global age. When globality displaces modernity there is a general decentring of state, government, economy, culture and community.

  • The impact of globalization on sociological concepts

    Martin Albrow, John Eade et al.ARTICLEInnovation The European Journal…1994Cited by: 10References: 33

    Out of Giddens' (1990) emphasis on modernity and Robertson's (1992) on globality emerges the need to conceptualize globalization in relation to the social per se. An exemplificatory conceptual case study points to global processes straining older concepts formed for nation state sociologies:deterrtorialization of the community concept results in the imagined community; global culture signals the fragmentation of the culture concept; 'milieu ' has…

  • The Changing British Role in European Sociology

    Martin AlbrowCHAPTERSociology in Europe1993

  • Reflections on the World Reception of Max Weber

    Martin AlbrowCHAPTERKnowledge and passion1993

  • Local ills and Global remedies

    Martin AlbrowARTICLEInnovation The European Journal…1993References: 11

    Sociology had a double role in Britain during its post‐ World War II expansion. It reflected the problems of class society and it imported foreign, especially European, ideas, each as a function of the other. The outcome of their interchange over time was a theoretical development paralleling the emergence of a society of cross‐cutting cleavages and a culture disconnected from structure. The porosity of British society and the absorptiveness of i…

  • Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

    Gianfranco Poggi, Martin AlbrowARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1993

  • Globalization, Knowledge and Society

    Roland Robertson, Martin Albrow et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

    Foreword - Margaret S Archer Introduction - Martin Albrow TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SOCIAL SCIENCE Resisting the Revival of Relativism - Margaret S Archer Sociology as the Defetishisation of Modernity - Agnes Heller Conceptual Frameworks in Comparative Inquiry - Divergent or Convergent? - Piotr Sztompka INTERNATIONALISING SOCIOLOGY Sociology's Great Leap Forward - Edward A Tiryakian The Challenge of Internationalisation The Application of Participatory…

  • Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

    Jacques Coenen-Huther, Jacques Coenen‐huther et al.ARTICLERevue Française de Sociologie1992

  • Las sociedades como hechos construidos

    Open AccessMartin Albrow, Gabriela Montes de Oca Vega et al.ARTICLEEstudios Sociológicos de El…1991

    Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global

  • Internationalism as a Publication Project

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowARTICLECurrent Sociology1991Cited by: 7References: 1

  • Globalization, knowledge, and society

    Martin AlbrowBOOKGlobalization, knowledge, and…1990

  • Religious Faith in An Intellectual’s World

    Open AccessMartin AlbrowCHAPTERMax Weber’s Construction of…1990

    As the global recognition of the significance of Weber’s contribution to social science grows, there is a danger that the historical roots of his work will be disregarded. When this happens, new circumstances may be forced to fit old and inappropriate ideas and it becomes difficult to sift the essential from the inessential. The contribution becomes a canon, a source of doctrine, rather than something understood as a living structure of thought, …