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Göran Therborn (born in 1941)is a Swedish Marxist sociologist. He currently holds the Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge in Britain. He is one of the world-leading sociologists and is an author of his calssic What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? (1978) and Science, Class and Society World (1976). He actively contributes articles to the New Left Review.

He was educated at Lund University, in sociology, politics, and economics, where he was the last social scientist to receive the old Fil. Dr. degree in l974. He was Professor of Political Science in the Netherlands in the l980s. For shorter periods he has taught in Eastern Europe as well as in half a dozen countries of Western Europe, in the Americas from Boston to Buenos Aires, in Asia in Tehran and Seoul, and in Australia. Before he came to the University of Cambridge, he was co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, and University Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University.

His book 'Bewteen Sex and Power' was reviewed by Eric Hobsbawm that “This is a deeply impressive book by a major sociologist, original and mostly persuasive in its historical analysis and remarkable in its survey of the global marital and sexual scene.”

He has published numerous books and articles and many of them have appeared in 22 languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovene, Serbo-Croat, Hungarian, Polish, Belarussian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Persian and Korean)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

2008 From Marxism to Post-Marxism, London: Verso 2008 What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?, London: Verson(Radical Thinkers Series) 2006 Inequalities of the World (Editor & co-author), London: Verso 2004 Between Sex and Power. Family in the World 1900-2000., London:Routledge 1995 European Modernity and Beyond. The Trajectory of European Societies 1945-2000, London: Sage 1986 Why Some Peoples Are More Unempolyed Than Others, London: Verso 1980 The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology, London: Verso 1978 What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?, London: Verso 1976 Science, Class and Society, New Left Books: London

Articles

2006 Eastern Drama. Eastern European Capital Cities in the 20th Century, International Review of Sociology, no. 2. 2006 Social Quality in Sweden, Journal of Social Quality, no. 1-2 2004 Culture as a World System, Proto-Sociology, Vol. 20 2003 Entangled Modernities, European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 6 (3) 2002 The World's Trader, the World's Lawyer: Europe and Global Process, European Journal of Social Theory, no.5 2002 Back to Norms: On the Scope and Dynamics of Normative Action, Current Sociology, no.6 2002 Monumental Europe. The National Year. On the Iconography of European Capital Cities, Housing Theory and Society, no. 1