This article is about the British sociologist and social anthropologist. For the Australian Paralympic shooter, see Peter Worsley (sport shooter).
Peter Maurice Worsley (6 May 1924 – 15 March 2013) was a noted Britishsociologist and social anthropologist. He was a major figure in both anthropology and sociology, and is noted for introducing the term Third World into English. He not only made theoretical and ethnographic contributions, but also was regarded as a key founding member of the New Left.[1][2]
Winner of the Curl Bequest Prize (1955) of the Royal Anthropological Institute for The kinship system of the Tallensi: a revaluation (Published in JRAI 1956, pp. 37–75).[3]
Key worksedit
Worsley, Peter (1957), The Trumpet Shall Sound: A study of "cargo cults in Melanesia, London: MacGibbon & Kee. Subsequent editions by MacGibbon & Kee, 1968; and Schocken Books, 1968, 1986, & 1987{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link).
Worsley, Peter (1977) [1964], The Third World, Nature of Human Society Series (3rd impression, 2nd American ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN0-226-90751-1 – introduced that term into the English language{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link).
Worsley, Peter (1970), Modern Sociology: Introductory Readings, Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, ISBN0-14-080221-5.
Worsley, Peter; Bechhofer, Frank; Brown, Richard; Jeffreys, Margot; McIntosh, Mary; Newby, Howard, eds. (1970), Introducing Sociology, Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Subsequent editions 1973, 1977, 1979 – sold over half a million copies{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link).
Worsley, Peter, ed. (1972), Problems of Modern Society: A Sociological Perspective, Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, ISBN0-14-080291-6 Also published 1978{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link).
Worsley, Peter (1975), Inside China, London: A. Lane, ISBN0-7139-0796-7.
Worsley, Peter (1984), The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN0-226-90754-6. Subsequent publications by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London), 1984 & 1988. ISBN0-297-78346-7.
Worsley, Peter (1982), Marx and Marxism, Key Sociologists series, Chichester, UK: Ellis Horwood; London & New York: Tavistock Publications, ISBN0-85312-348-9 Subsequent publications Routledge 1989, 1990 ISBN0-415-04321-2; 2002 ISBN0-415-28537-2.
Referencesedit
David Simon (ed) (2006) Fifty Key Thinkers in Development, Routledge
Worsley, Peter (2008), An Academic Skating on thin ice, Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, ISBN978-1-84545-370-1
Citationsedit
^ abcPeel, JDY (2013) Peter Worsley obituary: Sociologist who did much to define the idea of a 'third world', The Guardian, Thursday 28 March (Accessed April 2013)
^ abcPeter Worsley: A Life, interviewed by Alan Macfarlane (Accessed April 2013)
Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 25 February 1989 (video)
January 01, 1970
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