Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British sociologist, widely known for his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy.
He was founder of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1964. He was also Assistant Director-General of UNESCO (1971-1975) and Warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London (1976-1984).
He was born in Leeds and educated at Cockburn High School and the University of Leeds. He served with the Royal Artillery during World War II, and was demobilised as a Staff Captain . He was then appointed Staff Tutor at the University of Hull, 1946-1959, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, 1959-1962, and Professor of English at Birmingham University, 1962-1973. During his Professorship, he was also Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1964-1973. Hoggart was a member of numerous organisations, including the Albermarle Committee on Youth Services , 1958-1960; the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting , 1960-1962; the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976-1981; and the Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd , 1977-1981. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , 1977-1983, and the Broadcasting Research Unit , 1981-1991, as well as a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1962-1988. He was an expert witness at the Lady Chatterley trial.
He has two sons, political journalist Simon Hoggart and television critic Paul Hoggart .
Bibliography
- Mass Media in a Mass Society: Myth and Reality (Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 2004) ISBN 0826472850
- Everyday Language and Everyday Life (Transaction Publishers, 2003) ISBN 0765801760
- Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical (Transaction Publishers, 2002) ISBN 0765800977
- Between Two Worlds: Essays, 1978-1999 (Aurum Press, 2001) ISBN 1854107828
- First and Last Things: The Uses of Old Age (Aurum Press, 1999) ISBN 1854106600
- The Tyranny of Relativism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1560009535
- The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Chatto and Windus, 1995) ISBN 0701165014
- A Measured Life: The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual (Transaction Publishers, 1994) ISBN 1560001356
- Townscape with Figures: Farnham - Portrait of an English Town (Chatto and Windus, 1994) ISBN 0701161388
- An Imagined Life: Life and Times 1959-91 (Chatto and Windus, 1992) ISBN 0701140151)
- A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59 (Chatto and Windus, 1990) ISBN 0701136073 first volume of Hoggart's "Life and Times" described his working-class childhood in Leeds
- Liberty and Legislation (Frank Cass Publishers, 1989) ISBN 0714633089
- A Local Habitation, 1918-40 (Chatto and Windus, 1988) ISBN 0701133058
- An Idea of Europe (Chatto and Windus, 1987) ISBN 0701132442)
- The Worst of Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in Britain by Nigel Gray, Richard Hoggart (Barnes & Noble Imports, 1986) ISBN 0389205745
- British Council and the Arts by Richard Hoggart et al (British Council, 1986) ISBN 0863550487
- The Future of Broadcasting by Richard Hoggart, Janet Morgan (Holmes & Meier, 1982) ISBN 0841950903
- An English Temper (Chatto and Windus, 1982) ISBN 0701125810
- An Idea and Its Servants: UNESCO from Within (Chatto and Windus, 1978) ISBN 0701123710
- After Expansion, a Time for Diversity: The Universities Into the 1990's (ACACE, 1978) ISBN 0906436001
- Only Connect: On Culture and Communication (Reith Lectures) (Chatto and Windus, 1972) ISBN 0701118652
- Speaking to Each Other: About Society v. 1 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0701114630
- Speaking to Each Other: About Literature v. 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0701115149
- Contemporary Cultural Studies: An Approach to the Study of Literature and Society (Univ. Birmingham, Centre for Contemp. Cult. Studies, 1969) ISBN 0901753033 paper is based on a lecture given to the annual conference of the American Association for Higher Education at Chicago on 20 March 1978
- Higher Education and Cultural Change: A Teacher's View (Earl Grey Memorial Lecture) (Univ.Newcastle, 1966) ISBN 0900565624
- Teaching Literature (Nat. Inst. of Adult Education, 1963) ISBN 0900559195
- The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (Chatto and Windus, 1957) ISBN 0701107634
- Auden (Chatto, 1951) ISBN 0701107626 biography of W.H. Auden
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