Archive for: February, 2014
6. Hamza Alavi and the post-colonial state
Hamza Alavi, who died in December 2003, was a Reader in Sociology at University of Manchester from 1977 to 1988. He had wide range of interests within the area of the political economy of South Asia. He worked on the state in post-colonial societies, on imperialism, on the peasantry and […]
5. Clyde Mitchell: Pioneer of social network analysis
James Clyde Mitchell (1918 – 1995), came to the University of Manchester in 1965 as Professor in Urban Sociology. Â He was interested in the study of social structure through the observation of regular patterns of social relations that persist over time. During his time in Rhodesia, Mitchell and colleagues used […]