Mike Savage
Sociologist Mike Savage has dedicated his career to analyzing social stratification, social class, and inequality. He was Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics before retiring from the Department in 2024. He is now Professorial Research Fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, where he collaborates with the Department of Sociology. He was previously head of the Department of Sociology and the Directory of the International Inequalities Institute, which hosts the largest global program in the world devoted to challenging inequalities.
He has played a major role in the revival of the sociology of social class in recent decades so that it has become once more a central plank of the discipline. He is one of the major sociologists to embrace the growing awareness of intensified economic inequality in recent decades to draw out the broader systemic social challenges these have produced. He promotes the need for academic research to be co-produced with campaigning organizations, is committed to a public facing vision of sociology.
His books include Social Class in the Twenty-First Century, Globalization and Belonging, The Dynamics of Working-Class Politics, and The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past.