The person who I will write is not a sociologist (he is an historian), but I think the History and the Sociology are very connected.
Eric Hobswaum, was born in Egypt, the 1917 and he was a Jewish and Marxist historian. He grew up in Viena and Berlin. His father and his mother, where jewish, but they didn't practiced the religion.
In 1933 he moved to London and started his studies.
Hobswaum is considered one of the most important British historian and his most important publications are: The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848), The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 and finally The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
He died in 2012 in London
I don't know very well, why I admire him, but the truth is that I really like him. Maybe it is the vision he had of the world and his thinking.
when I was in my first year I was very fed up of read a lot of text of Hobsbawm, but sincerely he is very brilliant :)
ResponderEliminarAfter read him all the first semester, he isn´t very fun, but is a great autor. And you have to write Hobsbawm, not Hobsbawum in the test :)
ResponderEliminarI know him too, I think he is a very wise person
ResponderEliminarSee you!