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Ian Burkitt

Emeritus Professor - FOMLSS

Area
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
E-mail
I.Burkitt@bradford.ac.uk
Ian Burkitt
21 publications

Biography

I am currently Emeritus Professor of Social Identity in the Division of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Bradford. My work is centrally concerned with the formation of human identity within social relations, beginning with my first book Social Selves (1991; 2nd ed. 2008). Over the years my interest in the societal contexts in which we become particular social beings, has broadened to include forms of human embodiment (Bodies of Thought, 1999) and the relational formation of emotions (Emotions and Social Relations, 2014). My recent work has extended the relational approach to emotions into critical considerations of the influence of neuroscience on emotion theory, of ideas about emotion regulation, and the nature of alienation in contemporary capitalism. I have also written about reconceptualising agency through the perspective of relational sociology.

Research

The social formation of identity. Social activity and human embodiment. The social and relational constitution of emotions, including the political dimension of emotions. Agency as a relational phenomenon.

Publications

  • Relational agency

    Burkitt, Ian (2018) The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology. Palgrave. 523-538.

  • Appearance and image in the perception and misperception of self and others: Ichheiser and social psychological theory

    Burkitt, Ian (2018) Memories of Gustav Ichheiser. Springer.