About Matt Dawson

Matt is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow with research interests in Social Theory, the History of Sociology and Normativity in the discipline. He is the author of G.D.H. Cole and British Sociology: A Study in Semi-Alienation (2025, Palgrave Macmillan), The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies (2023, Routledge), Social Theory for Alternative Societies (2016, Bloomsbury) and Late Modernity, Individualization and Socialism: An Associational Critique of Neoliberalism (2013, Palgrave Macmillan).
Matt is a host on the New Books in Sociology feed and is especially interested in hosting episodes covering new books in the history of sociology and social thought.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Matt:

Theo Williams, "Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation" (Verso, 2022)

October 13, 2024

Making the Revolution Global

Theo Williams
Hosted by Matt Dawson

Theo Williams’ Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation (Verso, 2022) shows how black r…

David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)

September 26, 2024

The Academic Trumpists

David L. Swartz
Hosted by Matt Dawson

Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’? These elements of the Trump presidency spoke to …

Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

September 22, 2024

Zygmunt Bauman and the West

Jack Palmer
Hosted by Matt Dawson

Jack Palmer’s Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) invites us to reconsider a figure…

Lise Butler, "Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970" (Oxford UP, 2020)

August 30, 2024

Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970

Lise Butler
Hosted by Matt Dawson

Lise Butler’s Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-70 (Oxford UP, 2020) invites us to revisit a figure who, in Butler’s words, is …