Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture

Laurie Hanquinet is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Her main fields of interest are sociology of culture and art as well as social sciences methodology. She has undertaken research on the visitors of modern and contemporary art museums, on the role of artists in the society and on different dimensions of cultural participation.

Mike Savage became Professor of Sociology at the LSE in September 2012, where he is active in leading the International inequalities Institute which began in 2015. Previously he was Professor at the University of Manchester, where he had been Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) from 2004 to 2010, and Professor at the University of York, where he founded the European Centre for Cultural Exploration from 2010-2012.