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28_42	social theory, producing, with Peter Carrington, The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis and,
28_43	as sole author, Conceptualising the Social World. He retired from Plymouth University in 2013.
28_44	Scott was elected as President of the British Sociological Association in 2001, succeeding Sara
28_45	Arber, having previously held the posts of Newsletter Editor, Secretary (1990–1992), Assistant
28_46	Treasurer (1996–1998), and Chairperson (1992–93). He is currently an Honorary Vice-President. He is
28_47	a member of the Research and Higher Education Policy Committee of the British Academy. Scott has
28_48	served on the Sociology Panel for the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), was Panel Chair in
28_49	the 2008 RAE, and was appointed as Panel Chair for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. He has
28_50	also been an Assessor for the Teaching Quality Assessment, the A-Level Core Curriculum Working
28_51	Party of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority, the Subject Benchmarking Group of the
28_52	Quality Assurance Agency, and numerous other committees. He was an Adjunct Professor at Bergen
28_53	University, Norway, from 1997 to 2005 and has held short visiting positions at Hirosaki University,
28_54	Ritsumeikan University, Hitotsubashi University, and Saitama University in Japan, and at the
28_55	University of Hong Kong. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Essex,
28_56	UK, an Honorary Professorship at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an Honorary Visiting
28_57	Professorship at the University of Exeter, UK.
28_58	Scott was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours
28_59	for services to social science.
28_60	Class, power, and elites
28_61	Scott has been one of the few British sociologists to investigate the capitalist class and its
28_62	power. His research in stratification and political economy has explored the changing patterns of
28_63	ownership in contemporary capitalist economies and the ways in which these changes are reflected in
28_64	elite recruitment. Critical of the prevailing managerialist interpretation of business enterprise,
28_65	he developed the influential concept of 'control through a constellation of interests' to describe
28_66	the dispersed forms of ownership and control that allow representatives of dominant shareholding
28_67	interests in Britain and the United States to exercise a constraining power over internal business
28_68	decision-making.
28_69	His research on networks of shareholding and interlocking directorships has documented the
28_70	structures and mechanisms through which this constraining power operates. The research has depicted
28_71	the varying, path-dependent patterns of control found in major capitalist economies. Scott has
28_72	contrasted the 'Anglo-American' pattern of controlling constellations with the 'German' pattern of
28_73	aligned corporate filiations, the 'Latin' pattern of 'corporate webs', and the 'Japanese' pattern
28_74	of corporate sets.
28_75	Scott explored, in the British case, the historical development of a capitalist class through a
28_76	close association of landholding and financial interests and showed the mechanisms through which
28_77	this class could be described as a ruling class.
28_78	Theory and methodology
28_79	Social network analysis has been at the heart of Scott's methodological work. He has helped to
28_80	popularise this method of structural analysis through synthesising texts and his own applications
28_81	of the method. He has, in addition, undertaken work on the use of documents in social research,
28_82	producing, in 1990, A Matter of Record as one of the first texts on this topic. Like his work on
28_83	social network analysis, this work developed from a practical research involvement in the use of
28_84	the method. Scott's reflections on documentary research derived initially from his use of company
28_85	records, civil registration records, and newspapers as source materials in his studies of business
28_86	organisation.
28_87	Scott's commitment to social theory as the core sociological activity dates from his early
28_88	engagement with the work of Talcott Parsons and has been inspired by that writer's commitment to
28_89	theoretical synthesis. Scott's view is that behind the contending theoretical explanations proposed
28_90	by different theorists there is a set of concepts that constitutes a shared foundation for
28_91	sociological analysis. Thus, concepts of 'structure' and 'action', for example, may inform a
28_92	variety of competing accounts of particular social phenomena, but there is no necessary opposition
28_93	between structural and agential accounts. Conceptualisations of the social world can be seen as
28_94	complementary to each other, and sociologist should eschew the overemphasis of difference if
28_95	comprehensive, cooperative endeavours are to be produced. Scott's latest work highlights the
28_96	achievement of sociology as a discipline in establishing a set of fundamental principles of
28_97	sociological analysis that can be used cooperatively. These are culture, nature, structure, action,
28_98	system, space-time, mind, and development.
28_99	The view that these basic principles of sociological analysis were established early in the history
28_100	of the discipline and have subsequently been developed and elaborated underpins Scott's interest in
28_101	the history of sociology. His books on theory have concentrated on the earliest statements of the
28_102	various arguments considered and have led him to investigate the ideas of many now-forgotten
28_103	figures. He has, in particular, explored early British sociology and has begun to establish the
28_104	reputation of Victor Branford, the founder of the Sociological Society and the Sociological Review
28_105	and the only British sociologist to have been made an Honorary Life member of the American
28_106	Sociological Society.
28_107	Publications
28_108	Scott's book publications on stratification and on economic and political sociology include:
28_109	Corporations, Classes and Capitalism, London, Hutchinson, 1979. American edition, St Martins Press.
28_110	Reprinted 1981. (Japanese translation: Tokyo, Bunshindo, 1983). Completely revised Second Edition
28_111	1985
28_112	The Anatomy of Scottish Capital, with M. Hughes, London, Croom Helm, 1980. Canadian edition, McGill
28_113	Queens.
28_114	The Upper Classes: Property and Privilege in Britain, London, Macmillan, 1982.
28_115	Directors of Industry, with C. Griff, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1984. (Japanese translation: Tokyo,
28_116	Horitsu Bunka Sha, 1987).
28_117	Networks of Corporate Power, editor with F. Stokman and R. Zeigler, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1985.
28_118	(Japanese translation: Tokyo, Bunshindo, 1993).
28_119	Capitalist Property and Financial Power, Brighton, Wheatsheaf, 1986. American edition, New York
28_120	University Press. (Japanese translation: Kyoto, Zeimukeiri Kyokai, 1989).
28_121	Who Rules Britain? Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991, reprinted 1992.
28_122	Poverty and Wealth: Citizenship, Deprivation and Privilege, Harlow, Longman, 1994.
28_123	Stratification and Power: Structures of Class, Status and Domination, Cambridge, Polity Press,
28_124	1996.
28_125	Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997.
28_126	Power, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001. (Polish translation: Warszawa, Wydawnictwo SIC, 2006)
28_127	His edited collections and compilations in this area include:
28_128	The Sociology of Elites, Three Volumes, editor, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1990.
28_129	Power. Critical Concepts, Three Volumes, editor, London, Routledge, 1994.
28_130	Class. Critical Concepts, Four Volumes, editor, London, Routledge, 1996.
28_131	Renewing Class Analysis, Sociological Review Monograph, editor with R. Crompton, F. Devine, and M.
28_132	Savage, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
28_133	Rethinking Class: Culture, Identities, and Lifestyle, editor with R. Crompton, F. Devine, M.
28_134	Savage, London, Macmillan, 2004.
28_135	Financial Elites and Transnational Business. Who Rules the World? (with Georgina Murray),
28_136	Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2012.
28_137	C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination (with Ann Nilsen), Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2013.
28_138	His monographs, edited collections and compilations on theories and methods include:
28_139	A Matter of Record: Documentary Sources in Social Research, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1990.
28_140	Sociological Theory: Contemporary Debates, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1995. Second Edition 2012.
28_141	Social Network Analysis, London and Beverley Hills, Sage Publications, 1992. Second Edition, 2000,

28_42

social theory, producing, with Peter Carrington, The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis and,

28_43

as sole author, Conceptualising the Social World. He retired from Plymouth University in 2013.

28_44

Scott was elected as President of the British Sociological Association in 2001, succeeding Sara

28_45

Arber, having previously held the posts of Newsletter Editor, Secretary (1990–1992), Assistant

28_46

Treasurer (1996–1998), and Chairperson (1992–93). He is currently an Honorary Vice-President. He is

28_47

a member of the Research and Higher Education Policy Committee of the British Academy. Scott has

28_48

served on the Sociology Panel for the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), was Panel Chair in

28_49

the 2008 RAE, and was appointed as Panel Chair for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. He has

28_50

also been an Assessor for the Teaching Quality Assessment, the A-Level Core Curriculum Working

28_51

Party of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority, the Subject Benchmarking Group of the

28_52

Quality Assurance Agency, and numerous other committees. He was an Adjunct Professor at Bergen

28_53

University, Norway, from 1997 to 2005 and has held short visiting positions at Hirosaki University,

28_54

Ritsumeikan University, Hitotsubashi University, and Saitama University in Japan, and at the

28_55

University of Hong Kong. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Essex,

28_56

UK, an Honorary Professorship at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an Honorary Visiting

28_57

Professorship at the University of Exeter, UK.

28_58

Scott was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours

28_59

for services to social science.

28_60

Class, power, and elites

28_61

Scott has been one of the few British sociologists to investigate the capitalist class and its

28_62

power. His research in stratification and political economy has explored the changing patterns of

28_63

ownership in contemporary capitalist economies and the ways in which these changes are reflected in

28_64

elite recruitment. Critical of the prevailing managerialist interpretation of business enterprise,

28_65

he developed the influential concept of 'control through a constellation of interests' to describe

28_66

the dispersed forms of ownership and control that allow representatives of dominant shareholding

28_67

interests in Britain and the United States to exercise a constraining power over internal business

28_68

decision-making.

28_69

His research on networks of shareholding and interlocking directorships has documented the

28_70

structures and mechanisms through which this constraining power operates. The research has depicted

28_71

the varying, path-dependent patterns of control found in major capitalist economies. Scott has

28_72

contrasted the 'Anglo-American' pattern of controlling constellations with the 'German' pattern of

28_73

aligned corporate filiations, the 'Latin' pattern of 'corporate webs', and the 'Japanese' pattern

28_74

of corporate sets.

28_75

Scott explored, in the British case, the historical development of a capitalist class through a

28_76

close association of landholding and financial interests and showed the mechanisms through which

28_77

this class could be described as a ruling class.

28_78

Theory and methodology

28_79

Social network analysis has been at the heart of Scott's methodological work. He has helped to

28_80

popularise this method of structural analysis through synthesising texts and his own applications

28_81

of the method. He has, in addition, undertaken work on the use of documents in social research,

28_82

producing, in 1990, A Matter of Record as one of the first texts on this topic. Like his work on

28_83

social network analysis, this work developed from a practical research involvement in the use of

28_84

the method. Scott's reflections on documentary research derived initially from his use of company

28_85

records, civil registration records, and newspapers as source materials in his studies of business

28_86

organisation.

28_87

Scott's commitment to social theory as the core sociological activity dates from his early

28_88

engagement with the work of Talcott Parsons and has been inspired by that writer's commitment to

28_89

theoretical synthesis. Scott's view is that behind the contending theoretical explanations proposed

28_90

by different theorists there is a set of concepts that constitutes a shared foundation for

28_91

sociological analysis. Thus, concepts of 'structure' and 'action', for example, may inform a

28_92

variety of competing accounts of particular social phenomena, but there is no necessary opposition

28_93

between structural and agential accounts. Conceptualisations of the social world can be seen as

28_94

complementary to each other, and sociologist should eschew the overemphasis of difference if

28_95

comprehensive, cooperative endeavours are to be produced. Scott's latest work highlights the

28_96

achievement of sociology as a discipline in establishing a set of fundamental principles of

28_97

sociological analysis that can be used cooperatively. These are culture, nature, structure, action,

28_98

system, space-time, mind, and development.

28_99

The view that these basic principles of sociological analysis were established early in the history

28_100

of the discipline and have subsequently been developed and elaborated underpins Scott's interest in

28_101

the history of sociology. His books on theory have concentrated on the earliest statements of the

28_102

various arguments considered and have led him to investigate the ideas of many now-forgotten

28_103

figures. He has, in particular, explored early British sociology and has begun to establish the

28_104

reputation of Victor Branford, the founder of the Sociological Society and the Sociological Review

28_105

and the only British sociologist to have been made an Honorary Life member of the American

28_106

Sociological Society.

28_107

Publications

28_108

Scott's book publications on stratification and on economic and political sociology include:

28_109

Corporations, Classes and Capitalism, London, Hutchinson, 1979. American edition, St Martins Press.

28_110

Reprinted 1981. (Japanese translation: Tokyo, Bunshindo, 1983). Completely revised Second Edition

28_111

1985

28_112

The Anatomy of Scottish Capital, with M. Hughes, London, Croom Helm, 1980. Canadian edition, McGill

28_113

Queens.

28_114

The Upper Classes: Property and Privilege in Britain, London, Macmillan, 1982.

28_115

Directors of Industry, with C. Griff, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1984. (Japanese translation: Tokyo,

28_116

Horitsu Bunka Sha, 1987).

28_117

Networks of Corporate Power, editor with F. Stokman and R. Zeigler, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1985.

28_118

(Japanese translation: Tokyo, Bunshindo, 1993).

28_119

Capitalist Property and Financial Power, Brighton, Wheatsheaf, 1986. American edition, New York

28_120

University Press. (Japanese translation: Kyoto, Zeimukeiri Kyokai, 1989).

28_121

Who Rules Britain? Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991, reprinted 1992.

28_122

Poverty and Wealth: Citizenship, Deprivation and Privilege, Harlow, Longman, 1994.

28_123

Stratification and Power: Structures of Class, Status and Domination, Cambridge, Polity Press,

28_124

1996.

28_125

Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997.

28_126

Power, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001. (Polish translation: Warszawa, Wydawnictwo SIC, 2006)

28_127

His edited collections and compilations in this area include:

28_128

The Sociology of Elites, Three Volumes, editor, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1990.

28_129

Power. Critical Concepts, Three Volumes, editor, London, Routledge, 1994.

28_130

Class. Critical Concepts, Four Volumes, editor, London, Routledge, 1996.

28_131

Renewing Class Analysis, Sociological Review Monograph, editor with R. Crompton, F. Devine, and M.

28_132

Savage, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

28_133

Rethinking Class: Culture, Identities, and Lifestyle, editor with R. Crompton, F. Devine, M.

28_134

Savage, London, Macmillan, 2004.

28_135

Financial Elites and Transnational Business. Who Rules the World? (with Georgina Murray),

28_136

Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2012.

28_137

C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination (with Ann Nilsen), Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2013.

28_138

His monographs, edited collections and compilations on theories and methods include:

28_139

A Matter of Record: Documentary Sources in Social Research, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1990.

28_140

Sociological Theory: Contemporary Debates, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1995. Second Edition 2012.

28_141

Social Network Analysis, London and Beverley Hills, Sage Publications, 1992. Second Edition, 2000,