Ralf Dahrendorf

German-British sociologist, politician (1929–2009)

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Classes et Conflits de Classe Dans la Société Industrielle
Classes and Conflits de Classes Dans la Société Industrielle
Reflections of Revolution
Sozialstruktur des Betriebes
Essays in the Theory of Society

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Country: DE
Active from: 1963-11-29

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Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁalf ˈɡʊstaf ˈdaːʁəndɔʁf]; 1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society. Dahrendorf wrote multiple articles and books, his most notable being Class and Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) and Essays in the Theory of Society (1968).

During his political career, he was a Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Foreign Office of Germany, European Commissioner for Trade, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Education and Member of the British House of Lords, after he was created a life peer in 1993. He was subsequently known in the United Kingdom as Lord Dahrendorf.