Professor Alan Scott

Biography

Alan Scott is Professor of Sociology. He has taught and researched in universities in UK and Austria as well as Australia. In 2008 he was Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. In 2009 he held the Vincent Wright Visiting Chair in Sciences Po, Paris. Between 2013-2016 he was Vice President (for humanities and social sciences) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in Vienna. His main areas of research are in political and organisational sociology, and in social theory.

Personal website: https://une-au.academia.edu/AlanScott

Qualifications

PhD, University of Leeds, UK

Teaching Areas

Teaching

• Foundations of Modernity: an Introduction to Social Theory (SOCY340)
• State, Power and Violence (SOCY356/556)
• The City and Social Change (SOCY300/500)

Areas of postgraduate supervision

• Classical and contemporary social theory (especially, Weber, Simmel, (Karl) Polanyi, Aron).
• Political sociology (e.g. social movement, state theory).
• Organisational sociology and public policy (e.g. higher education policy, neoliberalization).
• Urban and regional sociology.

Research Supervision Experience

Social theory, organisational and political sociology, European studies

Publications

Books (since 2010)

Palumbo, Antonino and Scott, Alan (2018) Remaking Market Society. A Critique of Political Economy and Social Theory in the Age of Neoliberalism. London: Routledge, pp. 248. IBSN 9780415837736. For further information, click here.

Amenta, Edwin, Nash, Kate and Scott, Alan(eds) (2012/16) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 564. IBSN 978-1-4443-3093-9.

Journal Articles and Chapters (since 2010, selected)

Subedi, D.B. and Scott, Alan (2021) Populism, authoritarianism, and charismatic-plebiscitary leadership in contemporary Asia: A comparative perspective from India and Myanmar. Contemporary Politics. DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2021.1917162.

Scott, Alan and Rief, Silvia (2021) Reactionaries of the lectern: Universalism, anti-empiricism, and corporatism in Austrian (and German) social theory. European Journal of Social Theory 24(2): 285-305. DOI: 10.1177/1368431021992205.

Scott, Alan (2021) Introduction to the Kelsen-Bauer debate on Marxist state theory and the equilibrium of class forces. Thesis Eleven. DOI: 10.1177/0725513620985651.

Scott, Alan (2020) Prodigal offspring: Organizational sociology and organization studies. Current Sociology 68(1): 443-58. DOI: 10.1177/0011392120907639.

Scott, Alan (2018) ‘(Plebiscitary) leader democracy: The return of an illusion?’ Thesis Eleven, 148: 3-20. DOI: 10.1177/0725513618800120.

Scott, Alan (2013) 'Capitalism as culture and Statecraft. Weber-Simmel-Hirschman.' Journal of Classical Sociology. 13(3): 30-46. DOI: 10.1177/0725513618800120.

Scott, Alan (2011) ‘Raymond Aron’s political sociology of regime and party.’ Journal of Classical Sociology 11(2): 155-171. DOI: 10.1177/1468795X10396274.

Memberships

International Sociological Association

TASA