Staff Profile

Qualifications

BA (Oxford)
MA, DPhil (Sussex)

Previous Positions

Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton

Memberships

British Sociological Association
European Sociological Association
International Sociological Association

Languages

French, German

Research Interests

Social theory (esp. critical theory); philosophy of social science; history of social thought; political sociology; contemporary Europe

Current Work

I recently published books on Social Theory (Profile 2015), Europe Since 1989 (Routledge 2016) Contemporary Europe (Routledge 2017) and Transregional Europe (Emerald 2020), an edited book on Brexit (Anthem 2017) and (co-edited with Stephen P Turner) The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology (2018) and (co-edited with Luca Corchia and .Stefan Muller-Doohm) Habermas Global. Wirkungsgeschichte eines Werks (Suhrkamp 2019)

Future Research

Further work on Europe.

Esteem Indicators

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

• Outhwaite W. La sfera pubblica nella teoria dell'evoluzione sociale. Quaderni di Teoria Sociale 2020, (1-2), 303-322.
• Outhwaite W. Transregional Europe. Bingley: Emerald, 2020.
• Outhwaite W. When did 1989 end?. Social Science Information 2020, 59(3), 425-438.
• Outhwaite W. De-europeanisation After Brexit: Narrowing and Shallowing. Global Discourse 2019, 9(1), 15-30.
• Corchia L, Muller-Doohm S, Outhwaite W, ed. Habermas global - Wirkungsgeschichte eines Werks. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2019.
• Outhwaite W, Smith K. Karl Marx, Le Capital. Review of Radical Political Economics 2020, 52(2), 208-221.
• Outhwaite W. Max Weber’s Conception of "Rationalization" and the 21st Century. Russian Sociological Review 2019, 18(2), 16-27.
• Outhwaite W. Migration Crisis and “Brexit”. In: Cecilia Menjívar, Marie Ruiz, and Immanuel Ness, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp.1-19.
• Outhwaite W. 1968 in West Central Europe. Czech Sociological Review 2018, 54(3), 452-455.
• Outhwaite W. Kuhn and Social Science. In: José Esteban Castro, Bridget Fowler and Luís Gomes, ed. Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Honour of Hermínio Martins. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2018, pp.81-98.
• Outhwaite W, Turner SP, ed. The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2018.
• Outhwaite W, ed. Brexit: Sociological Responses. London: Anthem, 2017.
• Ray l, Outhwaite W. Communist Cosmopolitanism. In: Bhambra, GK; Narayan, J, ed. European Cosmopolitanism. Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Societies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017, pp.47-62.
• Outhwaite W. Generations of Critical Theory?. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory 2017, 1(1), 5-27.
• Outhwaite W. Habermas, Law and the European Union. In: Simone Glanert and Fabien Girard, ed. Law's Hermeneutics: Other Investigations. London: Routledge, 2017, pp.168-185.
• Outhwaite W. Science of science at Sussex University. Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 2017, 53(2 212), 149-156.
• Outhwaite W. Canons Round Again. In: Baehr,P, ed. Founders, Classics, Canons. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2016, pp.237-250.
• Outhwaite W. Contemporary Europe. London: Routledge, 2016.
• Outhwaite W. Europe Since 1989: Transitions and Transformations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016.
• Outhwaite W. Reconstructive Science and the European Constitution: Habermas, Citizenship, and the Tension between Facts and Norms. In: Harry F. Dahms , Lybeck Eric R, ed. Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2016, pp.211-222.
• Outhwaite W. Hermeneutics and the Social Sciences. In: Malpas,J and Gander,H-H, ed. Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics. London: Routledge, 2015, pp.486-497.
• Outhwaite RW. Positivism, Sociological. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp.625-629.
• Outhwaite W. Social Theory: Ideas in Profile. London, UK: Profile Books, 2015.
• Outhwaite W. Sociological Theory. In: Holborn, M, ed. Contemporary Sociology. Cambridge: Polity, 2015, pp.602-627.
• Outhwaite W. Zevedei Barbu: An Intellectual Memoir. In: Daniela Maci and Michael Finkenthal, ed. Zevedei Barbu. Psychologist, Sociologist and Philosopher. Bucharest, Romania: Tracus Arte, 2015, pp.158-173.
• Outhwaite W. Reconstructive Science and Methodological Dualism in the Work of Jürgen Habermas. Philosophical Inquiry 2014, 38(1-2), 2-18.
• Outhwaite W. Europe: the EU and the Non-EU states, former Western and Eastern Europe. In: Sasaki,M;Goldstone,J;Zimmermann,E;Sanderson,S, ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology. Leiden: Brill, 2014, pp.524-539.
• Outhwaite W. Habermas. In: Rosa, H; Lamla, Jörn; Laux, Henning; Strecker, D, ed. Handbuch der Soziologie. Stuttgart: UTB (UVK), 2014, pp.178-194.
• Outhwaite W. Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten in Habermas' Auseinandersetzung mit dem historischen Materialismus. In: Rapic, S, ed. Habermas und der Historische Materialismus. Freiburg: Karl Alber, 2014, pp.37-45.
• Outhwaite W, Spence D. Luc Boltanski in Euroland. In: Susen,S; Turner,B, ed. The Spirit of Luc Boltanski. London: Anthem, 2014, pp.425-444.
• Outhwaite W. The Future of European Democracy. European Journal of Social Theory 2014, 17(3), 326-342.
• Outhwaite W. Towards a European Society: What can European Sociology Tell Us?. In: Koniordos, S and Kyrtsis, A-A, ed. Routledge Handbook of European Sociology. London: Routledge, 2014, pp.80-97.
• Outhwaite W. Communicative Action Theory. In: Kaldis, B, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. California, USA: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2013, pp.130-132.
• Outhwaite W. Critical Theory and Contemporary Europe. New York, USA: Continuum, 2012.
• Outhwaite W. Discourse Ethics. In: Chadwick, R, ed. Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. San Diego, USA: Academic Press, 2012, pp.826-832.
• Outhwaite RW. Post Communist Capitalism and Democracy: cutting the postcommunist cake. Journal of Democratic Socialism 2011, 1(1), [1-23].
• Outhwaite W, Ray L. Prediction and Prophecy in Communist Studies. Comparative Sociology 2011, 10(5), 691-709.
• Outhwaite W. The Rise of the Social. In: Stone A, ed. The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011, pp.242-258.
• Outhwaite W. Bauman’s Europe; Europe’s Bauman. In: Davis M; Tester K, ed. Bauman’s Challenge: Sociological Issues for the 21st Century. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp.1-13.
• Outhwaite W. Europe at 21: Transitions and Transformations since 1989. London: LSE, 2010. Available at: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/LEQS/LEQSPaper18b.pdf.
• Outhwaite W. Habermas at 80. In: Richard R-C Hwang, ed. Communication, Critique and Praxis: An Anthology on Habermas at 80. Taipei, Taiwan: Asian Culture, 2010, pp.19-52.
• Outhwaite W. Legality and Legitimacy in the European Union. In: Thornhill C; Ashenden S, ed. Legality and Legitimacy: Normative and Sociological Approaches. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010, pp.279-290.
• Outhwaite W. What is Left after 1989?. In: Lawson, G., Armbruster, C., Cox, M, ed. The Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.81-98.
• Outhwaite W. Canon Formation in Late 20th-Century British Sociology. Sociology 2009, 43(6), 1029-1045.
• Outhwaite W. Europe Beyond East and West. In: Rumford C, ed. The SAGE Handbook of European Studies. London: Sage, 2009, pp.52-68.
• Outhwaite W. European Civil Society and the European Intellectual: What Is, and How Does One Become, a European Intellectual?. In: Fleck C; Hess A; Lyon ES, ed. Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009, pp.59-67.
• Outhwaite W. Habermas: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: Polity, 2009.
• Outhwaite W. How Much Capitalism can Democracy Stand (and Vice Versa)?. Radical Politics Today 2009.
• Outhwaite W. Realism and Consensus. Sociological Analysis 2009, 3(1), 109-111.
• Outhwaite W. Recognition, Reification and (Dis)respect. Economy and Society 2009, 38(2), 360-367.
• Outhwaite W. When Did 1968 End?. In: Bhambra GK; Demir I, ed. 1968 in Retrospect: History, Theory, Alterity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.175-183.
• Outhwaite W. European Society. Cambridge: Polity, 2008.
• Outhwaite W. Bourdieu and Postcommunist Class Formation. Sociological Research Online 2007, 12(6), 1-13.
• Outhwaite W, Turner S, ed. The Sage Handbook of Social Science Methodology. London: Sage, 2007.
• Outhwaite RW. Who Needs Solidarity?. In: Nathalie Karagiannis, ed. European Solidarity. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007, pp.75-93.
• Outhwaite W. Europe after the EU enlargements: 'Cosmopolitanism by Small Steps'. In: Delanty, G, ed. Europe and Asia beyond East and West. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.193-202.
• Outhwaite W. The Future of Society. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
• Outhwaite W, Ray L. Social Theory and Post-Communism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
• Outhwaite W, Archer M, ed. Defending Objectivity: Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier. London: Routledge, 2004.
• Outhwaite W. Intentional and Reflexive Objectivity: Some Reflections. In: Archer MS; Outhwaite W, ed. Defending Objectivity: Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier. London: Routledge, 2004, pp.226-236.