Story of Sociology: A First Companion to Social Theory

Gregor McLennan

Gregor McLennan is a British sociologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He studied under Stuart Hall at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1970s and continued to work with Hall at the Open University during the 1980s, co-editing several key texts on politics, ideology and crime. From 1991 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of Sociology at Massey University. In 1997 he assumed the Established Chair in Sociology at the University of Bristol, where he was also Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is currently professor emeritus.