Phil Stanworth
Honorary fellow

Profile

Biography

Born (28.12.42) and educated in Leicester, U.K. Worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Bristol and Cambridge before arriving in York in 1975.

Non-familial interests include violins, mountains, and weekly five-a-side soccer. Musically promiscuous, as a listener.

Teaches courses on wealth and power in Britain, the sociology of place, and globalisation.

Addictions

• Good newspapers
• The New York Review of Books

Ambitions

• To be outdoors more
• To write 100 decent pages

Research

Overview

• Class structure
• The State
• Elite formation
• Social spatialisation

Main academic interests: understanding capitalism, modernity, and the development of the world system; class structure (especially the upper echelons) and elite formation in Britain; and more recently social spatialisation - particularly the creation, administration and use of National Parks and Protected Landscapes in the European Union.

Publications

Selected publications

• Elites and Power in Britain edited with A. Giddens (1974),
• "Elites and Privilege" in P.Abrams and R.Brown (eds) U.K. Society (1984).
• "Elites" in G.Payne (ed) Social Divisions, Palgrave Macmillan, (2nd edition)