Barbara E. Adam, ,

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(born 3 May 1945) is a retired British sociologist and academic. She specialises in

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particularity in reference to time. From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at

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; she was appointed

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of Sociology in 1999. She was the founding editor of the

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'' Time & Society''.

Honours

In 1991, she was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize by the

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for her monograph ''Time and Social Theory''. In 1995, she was awarded the J T Fraser Prize by the

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for her monograph ''Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time''. In 2009, she was elected an Academician of the

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(AcSS); in 2014, Academicians were retitled Fellows (FAcSS) to bring the Academy of Social Sciences inline with other British learned societies. In 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the

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Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Barbara 1945 births Living people British sociologists British women sociologists Sociology educators Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales Academics of Cardiff University