David R. Inglis

David Robert Inglis is a contemporary sociologist and academic.

Education and career

Inglis earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Cambridge and then went on to complete his Master's and PhD in sociology at the University of York.{{cite interview |last=Inglis |first=David |subject-link= |interviewer=Christopher Thorpe |title=What's Up with Cultural Sociology? From Bourdieu and the Mainstream to 'Productive Weirdness' |work=British Sociological Association |date=September 15, 2022 |publisher= |location=|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17499755221112625 |access-date=August 7, 2023}}{{Cite thesis |last=Inglis |first=David |title=Scatological investigations : excreta and excretion in modernity. |date=1998 |degree=phd |publisher=University of York |url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/14013/ |language=en}}

He has been a sociology professor at the University of Helsinki since 2017. He was previously a sociology professor at the University of Exeter and the University of Aberdeen.{{cite web|url=https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/david-inglis|title=David Inglis|website=University of Helsinki|access-date=Aug 7, 2023}}

He was a founding editor of the journal Cultural Sociology, and headed the Finnish Sociological Association, the Westermarck Society, from 2020 through 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.sosiologia.fi/historia/|title=Historia|date=July 2017 |publisher=Westermarck Society|access-date=6 January 2024}}

Books

Inglis is the author or coauthor of books including:

  • A Sociological History of Excretory Experience: Defecatory Manners and Toiletry Technologies (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001)
  • Culture and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2005)Reviews of Culture and Everyday Life:
  • Neil O'Boyle, Irish Journal of Sociology, {{doi|10.1177/079160350601500211}}
  • "Book notes", European Journal of Communication, {{doi|10.1177/0267323106021001}}

  • The Uses of Sport: A Critical Study (with John Hughson and Marcus Free, Routledge, 2005)Review of The Uses of Sport:

John Matthew Barlow, Sport History Review, {{doi|10.1123/shr.38.1.73}}

  • An Invitation to Social Theory (with Christopher Thorpe, Polity Press, 2012)Review of An Invitation to Social Theory:

Vedad Muharemović, Sophos, {{EBSCOhost|95277024|dbcode=a9h}} (in Croatian)

His edited volumes include:

  • The Sociology of Art: Ways of Seeing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)Review of The Sociology of Art:

Bogusław Sułkowski, Przeglad Socjologiczny, [https://czasopisma.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/879] (in Polish)

  • The Globalization of Food (Berg, 2009),Reviews of The Globalization of Food:
  • Trina Filan, Food & Foodways, {{doi|10.1080/07409710.2013.821304}}
  • Mustafa Koc, The Canadian Journal of Sociology, {{JSTOR|canajsocicahican.37.2.213}}
  • Lynne Phillips, Annual Review of Anthropology, {{JSTOR|25762949}}

  • The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology (SAGE, 2016)
  • The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (Routledge, 2018).Review of The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices:

Mari Toivanen, Youth and Globalization, {{doi|10.1163/25895745-00201004}}

  • Drinks in Vogue: Exploring the Changing Worlds of Fashions and Beverages (Routledge, 2023)

References