Barbara Adam

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Barbara Adam
Born (1945-05-03) 3 May 1945 (age 81)
OccupationsLecturer, Cardiff University
Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University
Founding editor, Time & Society
AwardsPhilip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological Association 1991
J T Fraser Prize, International Society 1995
HonoursAcademician of the Academy of Social Sciences (2009)

Barbara E. Adam, FAcSS, FLSW (born 3 May 1945) is a retired British sociologist and academic. She specialises in social theory particularity in reference to time. From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at Cardiff University; she was appointed Professor of Sociology in 1999.[1][2] She was the founding editor of the academic journal Time & Society.[2]

Early life and education

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Adam received a Lyceum education in Germany before relocating to the United Kingdom, where she developed her entire academic career at Cardiff University.[1] She earned both her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in sociology at Cardiff, specializing in time studies.

Academic career

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Adam joined the faculty of Cardiff University, where she advanced an innovative temporal approach to social theory, epistemology, and methodology.[3] She was awarded two major ESRC Fellowships (1994 and 2003). From 1999 to 2000, she held the prestigious Max Weber Chair at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.[4]

In 1992, Adam founded the international journal Time & Society, providing an institutional platform for the emerging interdisciplinary field focused on social time.[5]

Honours

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In 1991, she was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize by the British Sociological Association for her monograph Time and Social Theory.[6] In 1995, she was awarded the J T Fraser Prize by the International Society for the Study of Time for her monograph Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time.[1] In 2009, she was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS);[1] in 2014, Academicians were retitled Fellows (FAcSS) to bring the Academy of Social Sciences inline with other British learned societies.[7]

In 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[8]

Selected works

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