Harvie Ferguson is Professor of Sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 at the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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. He has written extensively on the development of cultural, philosophical, and psychological aspects of the development of western modernity

Modernity

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.

He has published research on war experience in both a modern European

Europe

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 and Japanese

Japanese people

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perspective. His most recent books are Phenomenological Sociology: Insight and Experience in Modern Society (London: Sage 2006) and Self-Identity and Everyday Life (London: Routledge 2009).

Selected works

• Ferguson, H. (2010), La pasión agotada. Estilos de la vida contemporánea. Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores, ISBN 9788492946235http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZEbSWyzgcuEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Ferguson, H. (2006), Phenomenological Sociology. Insight and Experience in Modern Society. London, Sage. ISBN 0761959874http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2mSdsrHQyosC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvie+ferguson+Phenomenological+Sociology&hl=en&ei=DmQBTfGNDtuI4garhaCGBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Ferguson, H. (2000), Modernity and Subjectivity. Body, Soul, Spirit. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Presshttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9ZDJxGbMSIoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvie+ferguson+Modernity+and+Subjectivity&hl=en&ei=4WMBTZCYOsqL4QbjzPTEBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Ferguson, H. (1996), The Lure of Dreams. Sigmund Freud and the Construction of Modernity. London, Routledgehttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4puRrtuVTEIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvie+ferguson+The+Lure+of+Dreams&hl=en&ei=tGMBTYO2BOOS4gbr8bzpBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Ferguson, H. (1994), Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity. Søren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology. London, Routledgehttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5MJ3RrsG7QcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvie+ferguson+melancholy+and+critique&hl=en&ei=GWMBTYThIdKH5AadtOznBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Ferguson, H. (1992), Religious Transformation in Western Society. The End of Happiness. London, Routledgehttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y8wNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvie+ferguson+Religious+Transformation+in+Western+Society&hl=en&ei=XGMBTfzjGtG24QbSpPmLBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Ferguson, H. (1990), The Science of Pleasure. Cosmos and Psyche in the Bourgeois World View. London, Routledgehttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fswNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvie+ferguson+science+of+pleasure&source=bl&ots=nRtT8kbY5U&sig=DsU_eSGjp5wWW_guYDbP1J1mm8k&hl=en&ei=p2IBTd3SKZDtOebe2KcB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

External links

• http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sociology/staff/harvieferguson/ Harvie Ferguson in University of Glasgow