Michael Mann (sociologist)

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Michael Mann (1942-) is a British-born professor of sociology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Michael Mann holds dual British and U.S. citizenship. He received his B.A. in modern history from the University of Oxford in 1963 and his D.Phil. in sociology from the same institution in 1971.

Mann is professor of sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles since 1987; he was reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1977 to 1987.

[edit] Selected publications

• Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class 1981. ISBN 0-391-02268-7
• The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760, Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-30851-8
• The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation States 1760-1914, Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-44015-7
• Incoherent Empire, Verso, 2003. ISBN 1-85984-582-7
• The Autonomous Power of the State European Sociology Archives, 1984.

[edit] External links

• Professor Michael Mann - UCLA Department of Sociology webpage
• Conversation with Michael Mann - UC Berkeley transcript and webcast of interview with Michael Mann regarding his recent publication, Incoherent Empire.
• Ethnic Cleansing - The other side of the nation? - Review of Mann's Dark Side of Democracy by T.K. Vogel in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, September 17, 2005