Gregor McLennan

Gregor McLennan
McLennan in 1991
Born	(1952-10-21) 21 October 1952
Education	University of Birmingham (PhD), Bristol University (BA)
Known for	works on postcolonial and postsecular social theory
Scientific career
Fields	social theory, ideology and politics, philosophy of social sciences
Institutions	Massey University Bristol University
Doctoral students	Seyed Javad Miri

Gregor McLennan (born 21 October 1952) is a British sociologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He studied under Stuart Hall at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1970s and continued to work with Hall at the Open University during the 1980s, co-editing several key texts on politics, ideology and crime. From 1991 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of Sociology at Massey University. In 1997 he assumed the Established Chair in Sociology at the University of Bristol, where he was also Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is currently Professor Emeritus.

McLennan is known for his works on postcolonialism and postsecularism. He is also a Trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation and edited Hall's Selected Writings on Marxism for Duke University Press in 2021.

Books

Authored:

• Marxism and the Methodologies of History (1981)
• Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond (1989)
• Pluralism (1995)
• Sociological Cultural Studies: Reflexivity and Positivity in the Human Sciences (2006)
• Exploring Society (3rd edition 2010 - co-authored)
• Story of Sociology (2011)

Edited or co-edited:

• On Ideology (1978)
• Making Histories (1982)
• Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory (1982)
• State and Society in Contemporary Britain (1984)
• The Idea of the Modern State (1984)

External links

• Gregor McLennan at Bristol University