Background
Swaan, Abram De was born on January 8, 1942 in Amsterdam, Holland.
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This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society.
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In this ambitious and original work Abram de Swaan, one of Europe's leading sociologists, describes the evolution of the modern welfare state in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States from the late Middle Ages to the present. De Swaan traces the development of poor relief, mass education, urban sanitation, and social security as first local, then regional and national, responses to the twofold interdependency between rich and poor and among the rich themselves in the context of centralizing nation-states evolving in competition with each other. His broad focus provides a historical sociology of contemporary social problems and the collective arrangements that have evolved in different times and places.
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(In this ambitious and original work Abram de Swaan, one o...)
In this ambitious and original work Abram de Swaan, one of Europe's leading sociologists, describes the evolution of the modern welfare state in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States from the late Middle Ages to the present. De Swaan traces the development of poor relief, mass education, urban sanitation, and social security as first local, then regional and national, responses to the twofold interdependency between rich and poor and among the rich themselves in the context of centralizing nation-states evolving in competition with each other. His broad focus provides a historical sociology of contemporary social problems and the collective arrangements that have evolved in different times and places.
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Swaan, Abram De was born on January 8, 1942 in Amsterdam, Holland.
Master of Arts in Political Science (highest honours), University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1966. Postgraduate, Yale University, 1967. Postgraduate, University California Berkeley, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy (with highest honours), University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1973.
Associate professor political science Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 1971-1973. Professor sociology University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1973. Psychoanalytic psythotherapist Netherlands Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1973-1984.
Chairman, science director, dean Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, 1987-1997. Fulbright visiting scholar Columbia University, New York City, 1986. Visiting professor Maison des Sciences de I'Homme, Paris, 1988-1989.
Grotius visiting professor New School for Social Research, New York City. Director d'Études at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1993. Visiting professor Department Sociology of Columbia University, 1993, Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, 1994.
(In this ambitious and original work Abram de Swaan, one o...)
(In this ambitious and original work Abram de Swaan, one o...)
(This bold and accessible study of human languages and com...)
(In this series of brilliant case studies, Abram de Swann ...)
Co-author: The Rise of the Psychotherapy Trade, 1978, The Initial Interview as a Task, 1978. Author: (book of essays) Man is a Concern Unto Man, 1982, 10th edition, 1993, The Medical Regimen, 1994, Quality is Class: On the Origins and Function of the Cultural Differences in Taste, 1985, The Cosmopolitan Song, 1987, In Care of the State, 1989 (Netherlands Cercle for Political Science award 1989), The Management of Normality: Critical Essays in Health and Welfare, 1990, Platform the Netherlands: Essays on Culture, High and Low, Far and Near, 1991, Human Society: An Introduction to Sociology, 1996, Words of the World: the Global Language System, 2001. Contributor numerous articles to professional journals.
Fellow Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Academy Europe.
1 child, Meik.