Alan Warde Explained

Alan Warde, FBA, FAcSS (born 18 August 1949)^[1] is a British sociologist and academic. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester since 1999.

Education and career

Born in 1949, Warde was educated at Downing College, Cambridge,^[1] graduating with a BA in 1971.^[2] He then completed an MA at Durham University and carried out doctoral studies at the University of Leeds; his PhD was awarded in 1976 for his thesis "Ideology, strategy and intra-party division in the British Labour Party, 1956-74".^[3]

Warde was appointed to a lectureship at Lancaster University in 1978 and was promoted to a readership there in 1994, before becoming a full professor in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Honours and awards

In 2018, Warde was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[4] In 2011, he had also been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Publications

• Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 1982).
• (Co-authored with Nicholas Abercrombie) Social Change in Contemporary Britain (Polity, 1992).
• (Co-authored with Nicholas Abercrombie) Stratification and Social Inequality: Studies in British Society (Framework, 1994).
• (Co-authored with Nicholas Abercrombie) Family, Household and the Life-Course: Studies in British Society (Framework, 1994).
• (Co-authored with Mike Savage) Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity (Palgrave, 1993; 2nd ed. with Kevin Ward, 2002).
• (Co-authored with Stephen Edgell and Kevin Hetherington) Consumption Matters: The Production and Experience of Consumption (Wiley, 1996).
• Consumption, Food and Taste: Culinary Antimonies and Commodity Culture (Sage, 1997).
• (Co-authored with Lydia Martens) Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• (Edited with Nicholas Abercrombie, Rosemary Deem, Sue Penna, Keith Soothill, Andrew Sayer, John Urry and Sylvia Walby) Contemporary British Society: A New Introduction to Sociology (Polity, 2000).
• (Edited with Jukka Gronow) Ordinary Consumption (Routledge, 2001).
• (Edited with Nicholas Abercrombie) The Contemporary British Society Reader (Polity, 2001).
• (Edited with Stan Metcalfe) Market Relations and the Competitive Process (Manchester University Press, 2002).
• (Edited with Mark Harvey and Andrew Mcmeekin) Qualities of Food (Manchester University Press, 2004).
• (Co-authored with Unni Kjaernes and Mark Harvey) Trust in Food: An Institutional and Comparative Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• (Co-authored with Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright) Culture, Class, Distinction (Routledge, 2009).
• The Practice of Eating (Polity, 2016).
• Consumption: A Sociological Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Notes and References

1. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-291438 "Warde, Prof. Alan"
2. The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 (Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 1421.
3. https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009646859705181&context=L&vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&search_scope=My_Inst_CI_not_ebsco&tab=AlmostEverything&lang=en "Ideology, strategy and intra-party division in the British Labour Party, 1956–74"
4. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/record-number-academics-elected-british-academy "Record number of academics elected to British Academy"