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Professor David Morgan

Title: Visiting Professor
Phone: (+44) 01782 628394
Email: d.h.j.morgan@ext.keele.ac.uk
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Roles: Visiting Professor

 

 

Background and Research Interests:

David Morgan is an Emeritus Professor at the university of Manchester.   He has recently completed a period as "Professor 2" at the Norwegian Technical University (NTNU) at Trondheim.   A research project (conducted with Dr. Clare holdsworth of the University of Liverpool) on young people leaving home in Britain, Norway and Spain was finished in 2005.   His current interest is in the idea of "Acquaintanceship".

Key Publications:

  • Social Theory and The Family (1975) ( London: Routledge & Kegan Paul)
  • The Family, Politics and Social Theory (1985)   ( London: Routledge & Kegan Paul)
  • Discovering Men (1992) ( London: Routledge)
  • Family Connections (1996) ( Cambridge: Polity)
  • Social Networks and Social Exclusion (with C. Phillipson and G. Allan) (2004) (Aldershot: Ashgate)
  • "How brief an encounter? Time and relationships, pure or otherwise" In G. Allan & G. Jones (eds) Social Relations and The Life Course (2003) ( Basingstoke: Palgrave)
  • "Men in families and households" In J. Scott, J. Treas & M. Richards (eds) The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families (2004) (Oxford: Blackwell)
  • Clare Holdsworth & David Morgan (2005)   Transitions in Context:  Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood   Maidenhead   Open University Press
  • David Morgan, Berit Brandth & Elin Kvande (Eds) (2005)   Gender, Bodies and Work   Aldershot  Ashgate

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