Thomas Bottomore Explained

Thomas Burton Bottomore
Birth Date:	1920 4, df=yes
Birth Place:	England
Death Place:	Sussex
Occupation:	sociologist
Nationality:	British

Thomas Burton Bottomore (8 April 1920, England  - 9 December 1992, Sussex, England) was a British Marxist sociologist.^[1]

Bottomore was Secretary of the International Sociological Association from 1953 to 1959. He was the eighth president of ISA (1974-1978).^[2]

He was a prolific editor and translator of Marxist works, notably his collections published in 1963: Marx's Early Writings and Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy.

He was Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics from 1952 to 1964.^[1] He was head of the Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver from 1965 to 1967, leaving after a dispute over academic freedom. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex from 1968 to 1985.^{[3] [1]}

Bottomore edited and contributed to numerous journals of sociology and political science, and edited A Dictionary of Marxist Thought in 1983 and co-edited (with William Outhwaite) The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth century Social Thought published posthumously in 1993.

Bottomore was a member of the British Labour Party.

Works

• Classes in Modern Society (London: Ampersand, 1955; London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965)
  • Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology & Social Philosophy (London: Watts, 1956; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) editor with Maximilien Rubel Sociology: A Guide to Problems & Literature (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962)
• Early Writings of Karl Marx (London: Watts, 1963) editor and translator
• Elites and Society (London: Watts, 1964; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966; Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1967; New York: Penguin, 1970; London: Routledge, 1993)
• Critics of Society: Radical Thought in North America (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967)
• Karl Marx (Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1956)
• Karl Marx (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973) editor
• Sociology as Social Criticism (London: Allen & Unwin, 1975) ISBN 0-04-301068-7 : £4.25, 0-04-301069-5 (Pbk) : £2.10
• Marxist Sociology (London: Macmillan, 1975) ISBN 0-333-18754-7 : £2.95, 0-333-13774-4 (pbk) : £1.25
• A History of Sociological Analysis editor with Robert Nisbet (New York: Basic Books, 1979) ISBN 0-465-03023-8 : $29.50, 0-465-03024-6 (pbk)
• Modern Interpretations of Marx (1981) editor,
• Georg Simmel – The Philosophy of Money (1982, 2004, 2011)) translator with David Frisby ISBN 978-0-415-61011-7
• A Dictionary of Marxist Thought editor (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983) ISBN 0-631-12852-2
• Sociology and Socialism (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1984) ISBN 0-7108-0230-7 : £15.95, 0-7108-0235-8 (pbk) : £4.95
• Theories of Modern Capitalism (London: Allen & Unwin, 1985) ISBN 0-04-301186-1 (pbk.)
• Interpretations of Marx editor (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988) ISBN 0-631-15256-3
• The Capitalist Class: An International Study with Robert J. Brym (New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989) ISBN 0-7450-0296-X
• The Socialist Economy-Theory and Practice (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990) ISBN 0-7450-0118-1, 0-7450-0119-X (pbk)
• Between Marginalism and Marxism: The Economic Sociology of J A Schumpeter (New York: St Martin's Press, 1992) ISBN 0-312-09105-2
• The Frankfurt School (London: Tavistock, 1984, 1995) ISBN 0-85312-458-2 (Libr. ed.), 0-85312-468-X (Stud. ed.)

Further reading

• 50842. Bottomore, Thomas Burton. Jennifer. Platt. William. Outhwaite.
• Outhwaite, William and Michael Mulkay (eds.). 1987. Social Theory and Social Criticism: Essays for Tom Bottomore. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell,

External links

• Translated Penguin Book at Penguin First Editions
• Short biographical note at Marxists.org
• Catalogue of the Bottomore papers at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics.

Notes and References

1. News: Hirst . Paul . 14 December 1992 . Obituary: Professor Tom Bottomore . The Independent. London.
2. Web site: ISA Presidents . . 2012-07-25.
3. Web site: Tom Bottomore . Pluto Press.