David Lockwood (sociologist)

David Lockwood CBE FBA MAE (1929–2014) was a British sociologist.[2]

David Lockwood

CBE FBA MAE
Born(1929-04-09)9 April 1929
Holmfirth, England
Died6 June 2014(2014-06-06) (aged 85)
Spouse(s)
(m. 1954)
Academic background
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Notable studentsAnthony Giddens

Early life

Lockwood was born on 9 April 1929 in Holmfirth, England, and was the youngest child in his working-class family.[3] His father, Herbert, was a dyer and then retrained as a cobbler after being wounded during the First World War and he died when Lockwood was 10. His mother, Edith, was a cleaner. He served in the Army Intelligence Corps from 1947 to 1949.[3]

Life and works

His book, The Blackcoated Worker (1958 & 1989), seeks to analyse the changes in the stratification position of the clerical worker by using a framework based on Max Weber's distinction between market and work situations.[3] Lockwood argued that the class position of any occupation can be most successfully located by distinguishing between the material rewards gained from the market and work situations, and those symbolic rewards deriving from its status situation.[4] His work became a very important contribution to the "proletarianisation" debate which argued that many white-collar workers were beginning to identify with manual workers by identifying their work situation as having much in common with the proletariat.

Other published work included The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1969) and Solidarity and Schism (1992).[3][5]

Family life

Lockwood was married to the gender studies pioneer Leonore Davidoff, who he met while studying at LSE. They had three sons, Matthew, Ben and Harold.[3]

Lockwood died on 6 June 2014.[3]

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. Rose 1996, p. 386.
  2. Rose 1996.
  3. Rose, David (29 June 2014). "David Lockwood Obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  4. Scott & Marshall 2009, p. 421.
  5. Mouzelis 1998, p. 174.

Works cited


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