David Lockwood (sociologist)

David Lockwood CBE FBA MAE
Born	(1929-04-09)9 April 1929 Holmfirth, England
Died	6 June 2014(2014-06-06) (aged 85)
Spouse	Leonore Davidoff ​ (m. 1954)​
Academic background
Alma mater	London School of Economics
Influences	T. H. Marshall Max Weber
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Sub-discipline	Social stratification sociological theory
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Essex
Notable students	Anthony Giddens

David Lockwood CBE FBA MAE (9 April 1929 – 6 June 2014) was a British sociologist.

Early life

Lockwood was born on 9 April 1929 in Holmfirth, England, and was the youngest child in his working-class family. His father, Herbert, was a dyer and then retrained as a cobbler after being wounded during the First World War and he died when Lockwood was 10. His mother, Edith, was a cleaner. He served in the Army Intelligence Corps from 1947 to 1949.

Life and works

His book, The Blackcoated Worker (1958 & 1989), seeks to analyse the changes in the stratification position of the clerical worker by using a framework based on Max Weber's distinction between market and work situations. Lockwood argued that the class position of any occupation can be most successfully located by distinguishing between the material rewards gained from the market and work situations, and those symbolic rewards deriving from its status situation. His work became a very important contribution to the "proletarianisation" debate which argued that many white-collar workers were beginning to identify with manual workers by identifying their work situation as having much in common with the proletariat.

Other published work included The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1969) and Solidarity and Schism (1992).

Family life

Lockwood was married to the gender studies pioneer Leonore Davidoff, whom he met while studying at LSE. They had three sons: Matthew, Ben, and Harold.

Lockwood died on 6 June 2014.

See also

• Macrosociology

References

Works cited

• Mouzelis, Nicos (1998). "David Lockwood". In Sones, Rob (ed.). Key Sociological Thinkers. London: Palgrave. pp. 163–174. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-26616-6_13. ISBN 978-1-349-26616-6.
• Rose, David (1996). "For David Lockwood". The British Journal of Sociology. 47 (3): 385–396. doi:10.2307/591358. ISSN 1468-4446. JSTOR 591358.
• Scott, John; Marshall, Gordon, eds. (2009). A Dictionary of Sociology (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953300-8.

External links

• David Lockwood at "Pioneers of Qualitative Research" from the Economic and Social Data Service