Ruth Levitas
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Ruth Levitas is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. She is well known internationally for her research in utopia. Her Book, 'Ideology and Utopia' addresses the notion of the ideal society throughout European history. She is recently credited for formulating a program of sociology which is fundamentally utopian-focused in conventional sociological discourse. She also introduced the concepts of MUD (the moral underclass discourse), SID (the social integration discourse), and RED (the redistribution discourse), as tools for analysing social exclusion.
