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Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf,
KBE, (born
May 1,
1929) is a German-British
sociologist,
philosopher,
political scientist and
politician.
He was born in
Hamburg, the son of Lina and the late Gustav Dahrendorf, a social democrat member of the German Parliament. He studied
philosophy, classical
philology and
sociology at
Hamburg University between 1947 and 1952, became a doctor of philosophy and classics (Dr. phil.) in 1952. He continued his academic research at
London School of Economics as a Leverhulme Research Scholar in 1953-54, gaining a PhD in 1956. He was a professor of sociology in Hamburg (1957-60),
Tübingen (1960-64) and
Konstanz (1966-69).
From 1969 to 1970 he was a member of the
German parliament for the
Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) (the German
liberals), and a Parliamentary Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1970 he became a Commissioner in the
European Commission in
Brussels. From 1974 to 1984 he was director of the
London School of Economics, when he returned to Germany to become Professor of Social Science,
Konstanz University (1984-86).
1967-1970 he was Chairman of the
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, resigning it when he took up his office at Brussels.
He settled in the United Kingdom in 1986, becoming a Governor of the London School of Economics, and also from 1987 to 1997 Warden of
St Antony's College at the
University of Oxford, succeeding the historian
Sir Raymond Carr.
Having adopted
British citizenship in 1988, in 1993 he was granted a life peerage and was created
Baron Dahrendorf of
Clare Market in the City of
Westminster by
Queen Elizabeth II. He sits in the
House of Lords as a
cross-bencher. On
July 11,
2007, he was awarded the
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Studies.
His famous book
Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) argued that
Marx defined
class too narrowly and in a historically-specific context. Instead of describing the fundamental differences of class in terms of
property, Dahrendorf claimed that
power was at the root of differences in class. Thus, society could be split up into "order takers" and "order givers".
In January 2005, he was appointed a Professor of the Research Centre for Social Research in
Berlin.
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