Salvador Giner de San Julián

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Biography

  • Born in Barcelona on February 10, 1934.
  • President of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans since 2005.
  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona. Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1995).
  • Bachelor's degree (MA) and doctorate (PHD) in sociology from the University of Chicago.
  • Graduate in law from the University of Barcelona and doctor from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Postgraduate studies at the University of Cologne.
  • Professor and head of the Department of Sociology (from 1987 to 1991) at the University of Barcelona.
  • Founding director of the Institut d'Estudis Socials Avançats, from 1988 to 1999 (Barcelona, Madrid and Córdoba).
  • Visiting professor at Yale University (1980-1981) and King's College (Cambridge, 1964-1965).
  • Professor at the universities of Puerto Rico, Reading, Lancaster and Brunel West London (in the latter, professor and head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, 1979-1987).
  • Professor of social sciences and coordinator of this Section at the Universitat Catalana d'Estiu, at Prada de Conflent, from 1969 to 1976.
  • Guest professor at the universities of Rome (1994) and Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico (1994) and guest professor and honorary doctorate at the University of Valencia (Venezuela, 2000 and 2005).
  • Professor associated with the Pompeu Fabra University (1990-1996).
  • Director of the postgraduate course Modern social theory: economics, ethics, politics, UPF-IDEC (1996-1998).
  • Director of the Metropolitan Survey of the Barcelona Region (2000-2003).
  • Founding member and president of the Catalan Association of Sociology (1979), a subsidiary society of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
  • Co-founder, president and vice president (1979-1987) of the Federation of Sociology Associations of the Spanish State (1987-1991).
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (1983-1990).
  • President of the Organizing Committee of the World Congress of Sociology in 1990 and of the first European Conference of Social Sciences, in Vienna, in 1991.
  • President of the Social Sciences Committee for Curriculum Reform.
  • Member of the Human Capital and Mobility Program Committee, European Community, since 1992.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Amalfi European Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences (1988-2006).
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Congress of Social Sciences, European Union, Bruges (Belgium) 2001.
  • Member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (since 1995), vice president (2003), acting president (February-May 2005) and president (since 2005).
  • Editor of the International Journal of Sociology (1991-2004); associate director of International Sociology (1987-1990) and member of the Editorial Board of Sociology (1982-1986) and the European Journal of Social Theory (since 1996).
  • Member of the Editorial Board of El Ciervo and the Journal of Classical Sociology.
National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2006

Salvador Giner was born in Barcelona on February 10, 1934.

Graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona in 1957. He completed postgraduate studies at the University of Cologne. BA in Sociology (1964) at the University of Chicago. He received a Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) from the same University in 1969 and from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1976.

He develops extensive teaching work. He served as a professor and headed the Department of Sociology at the University of Barcelona from 1987 to 1991. Previously he had been a visiting professor at Yale University (1980-81) and at King's College in Cambridge (1964-65). He has been a professor at the Universities of Puerto Rico, Reading, Lancaster and Brunel West London (as Professor of Anthropology and Sociology) between 1979 and 1987; and as a guest professor at the Universities of Rome and Mexico in 1994 and Valencia (Venezuela) in 2001. From 1990 to 1996 he served as associate professor at the Pompeu i Fabra University and at this same university he directed (1996 to 1998) the postgraduate course "Modern Social Theory." Since 2005, he has been an emeritus professor at the University of Barcelona.

He is a founding member in 1979 and president of the Catalan Association of Sociology. From 1987 to 1991, he presided over the Federation of Sociology Associations of the Spanish State. Member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association from 1983 to 1990. Organized the 1990 World Congress of Sociology, in Madrid. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Congress of Social Sciences of the EU since 2001. He is director of the Institute of Advanced Social Studies, of which he is founder, from 1988 to 1999. He currently chairs the Institut d'Estudios Catalanes since 2005.

He has been editor of the International Journal of Sociology (1991-2004) and has collaborated in others as a member of editorial boards (Sociology, International Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, El Ciervo, Journal Classical Sociology).

He has a lengthy bibliographical work in Catalan, Spanish and English, translated into many different languages. Highlights include works such as "Sociology", "History of Social Thought", "Letter on Democracy", "Classical Sociological Theory", "Charisma and Reason", as well as other works that he directs or of which he is co-author, such as "The Society". Catalan", "Dictionary of Sociology", "Manual of Civics", "Enquesta de la Regió de Barcelona", etc.

The University of Valencia (Venezuela) awarded him an honorary Doctorate in 2005. And the Generalitat of Catalonia awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi in 1995.