Jennifer Platt

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is a sociologist who is Emeritus Professor at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

, where she taught from 1964 to 2002. She has been President of the

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in 1987–89, and edited its journal ''Sociology'' for 1985–87. She was a member of the International Sociological Association’s (ISA) executive from 1994–2002. Her research interests in the history of sociology have been reflected in her terms as Secretary and President of the ISA’s Research Committee on the History of Sociology, as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on the History of Sociology, In 2002 she became an Academician of the

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.New Academicians 2002
, ''Social Sciences Bulletin'', issue 4, November 2004, p. 4.

. Accessed September 5, 2010 Her main publications include: ''The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure'', 1969, (with Goldthorpe et al.); ''Realities of Social Research'', Sussex University Press, 1976; ''A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960'', Cambridge University Press, 1996; and ''The British Sociological Association: a Sociological History'', SociologyPress, 2003.

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