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Göran Therborn was born on 23 September 1941 in Kalmar, Sweden. He is a Swedish sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge.

His work has moved across political sociology, comparative historical sociology, global inequality, welfare states, families, cities, class analysis and radical social theory. His publications have appeared in at least twenty-four languages.

Studies and Career

Therborn studied political science, sociology and economics at Lund University, where he completed his PhD in sociology in 1974. He was docent in sociology at Lund University from 1974 to 1981.

He later served as Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Professor of Sociology at Gothenburg University, co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. After retirement from Cambridge he continued as Director of Research until 2017. He was also Affiliated Professor of Sociology at Linnaeus University from 2010 to 2020.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2024 Doctor honoris causa, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
• 2023 Featured in Is an Equal World Possible?, part of Korean educational television's Great Minds series.
• 2019 Swedish Lenin Prize, awarded to writers in a critical and rebellious left tradition.
• 2018 Doctor honoris causa, Malmö University, and Honorary Prize of the Equality Fund, Sweden.
• 2017 Premio Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO.
• 2016 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Pretoria.
• 2014 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid.
• 2011 Doctor honoris causa, University of Helsinki.
• 2010 Doctor honoris causa, Linnaeus University, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.
• 2007 Doctor honoris causa, Roskilde University.
• 2004-2008 Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for CONNEX, the European Network of Excellence on European Governance.
• 1989-1991 Social sciences representative on the Swedish Cabinet Advisory Council on Research.
• 1985 Simon Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester.

He has been listed in Who's Who, The Contemporary Who's Who?, One Thousand Great Scientists, the Dictionary of Eminent Social Scientists and the Swedish National Encyclopedia.

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