David Hopcraft John Morgan (born 1937), known as David (H. J.) Morgan, is a British

United Kingdom

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 sociologist

Sociology

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, a former President of the British Sociological Association

British Sociological Association

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 (1997–1999) and editor of the association's journal Sociology

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. His research focuses on family sociology, gender studies

Gender studies

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 and especially men's studies

Men's studies

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.

Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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, where he has taught sociology since 1964, and where the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life  is named in his honour. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Keele University

Keele University

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 and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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. He is co-editor of the Palgrave

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 Studies in Family Sociology book series.

Selected publications

• Social Theory and the Family (Routledge, 1975)
• The Family, Politics and Social Theory (Routledge, 1985)
• Men, Masculinities and Social Theory (Unwin Hyman, 1990) (with Jeff Hearn
  Jeff Hearn
  Jeff Richard Hearn is a British sociologist.-Biography:Hearn did his MA - specialised and Thesis in Organisational Sociology - at the Department of Management Studies of the University of Leeds....
  
  , eds.)
• Discovering Men (Routledge, 1992)
• Family Connections (Polity, 1996) (with Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande, eds.)
• Gender, Bodies and Work (Ashgate, 2005)
• Transitions in Context: Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood (Open University Press, 2005) (with Clare Holdsworth)
• Acquaintances: The Space Between Intimates and Strangers (Open University Press, 2009)