Abram de Swaan explained

Abram de Swaan
Birth Date:	8 January 1942
Birth Place:	Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abram de Swaan (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /ˈaːbrɑm də sʋaːn/; born 8 January 1942) is a Dutch essayist, sociologist and professor emeritus from the University of Amsterdam.

In 1996, he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2000.^[2]

He developed the concept of a global language system.

He received the P. C. Hooft Award in 2008.^[3]

Bibliography

Books in Dutch

• Amerika in termijnen (1968)
• Halverwege de Heilstaat (essays; 1983)
• Zorg en de Staat (1989)
• Perron Nederland (1991)
• Moord en de staat (2003)
• Tegen de vrouwen (2019)

Books in English

• In Care of the State (1988)
• The Management of Normality (1990)
• Words of the World (2001)
• The Killing Compartments (2015)

Awards

• P. C. Hooft Award (2008) for his oeuvre

Notes and References

1. Web site: Abram de Swaan . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 30 July 2015 . 2 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202044749/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4847?set_language=en . dead .
2. Web site: Abram De Swaan . https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104531/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/De_Swaan_Abram . Academia Europaea . 28 March 2019.
3. P.C. Hooftprijs voor Abram de Swaan, de Volkskrant, 15 dec 2007 (Retrieved on May 11, 2008)