La sociología insular: Th. Marshall y el moralismo fabiano

Abstract

This paper states the substantial contribution that the British sociologist Th. Marshall made to sociology. Professor and head of the Department of Social Science at the London School of Economics he spend four years as Director of Social Sciences at UNESCO. Th. Marshall is taken as representative of the roots of the discipline in United Kingdom in social philosophy and in sociological research. He was one of the most influential scholars in inmediate post-war sociology making important contributions to the study of social stratification and to social policy. His work Citizenship and social class (1950) and the subject of citizenship encompasses and links a number of central themes in the analysis of contemporary society and continues to influence and challenge us.