Barbara Adam | |
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Born | 3 May 1945 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Lecturer,
Cardiff University Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University Founding editor, Time & Society |
Awards | Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological Association 1991 J T Fraser Prize, International Society 1995 |
Honours | Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (2009) |
Barbara E. Adam, FAcSS, FLSW (born 3 May 1945) is a retired British sociologist and academic. She specialises in social theory particularity in reference to time. From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at Cardiff University; she was appointed Professor of Sociology in 1999. [1] [2] She was the founding editor of the academic journal Time & Society. [2]
In 1991, she was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize by the British Sociological Association for her monograph Time and Social Theory. [3] In 1995, she was awarded the J T Fraser Prize by the International Society for the Study of Time for her monograph Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time. [1] In 2009, she was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS); [1] in 2014, Academicians were retitled Fellows (FAcSS) to bring the Academy of Social Sciences inline with other British learned societies. [4]
In 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. [5]