Jan Pakulski

Jan Pakulski FASSA (born 1950 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Australian sociologist.

He received a master's degree in sociology in 1973 at the University of Warsaw, from 1975 he has been living in Australia where he completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 1980.

Pakulski taught at the University of Tasmania.[1] He was named professor of sociology in 1998, served as head of the School of Sociology and Social Work from 1998 to 2001, and was executive dean of arts between 2001 and 2008. He has held the title of emeritus professor since 2014.[1] He is fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2006+);[2] fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford; visiting professor at Nanyang University, Singapore; and affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University.[3] He on the editorial board of the Polish Sociological Review. From 2015 he is also Professor in Collegium Civitas, Warsaw.[4]

His book The Death Of Class[5] (co-written with professor Malcolm Waters) has been used as an undergraduate text book.

His most recent publication, a chapter titled The Development Of Elite Theory[6] in the Palgrave Handbook Of Elites[7] is targeted at policy-makers and members of parliament.

  1. ^ a b Unknown LDAP User (19 April 2012). "Jan Pakulski – Profiles". Profiles – University of Tasmania, Australia. Retrieved 21 June 2020. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Academy Fellow". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Jan Pakulski – Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality". inequality.stanford.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  4. ^ "PAKULSKI Jan, prof. dr". Collegium Civitas (in Polish). 24 May 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  5. ^ Pakulski, Jan; Waters, Malcolm (1996). The death of class. London: SAGE. ISBN 0-8039-7838-3. OCLC 34323772.
  6. ^ Best, Heinrich; Higley, John, eds. (2018). The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-137-51903-0.
  7. ^ Best, Heinrich; Higley, John, eds. (8 November 2017). The Palgrave handbook of political elites. Section editors: Cotta, Maurizio; Daloz, Jean-Pascal; Hoffmann-Lange; Pakulski, Jan; Semenova, Elena. London. ISBN 978-1-137-51904-7. OCLC 1012342956.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)