BSc, MSc (Econ), PhD (London)

Director of Studies, ALSS;
Course Leader, MA Sociology; Principal Lecturer, Sociology


Room: Hel 263

Email: shaun.leboutillier@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2242
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2242

Dr Shaun Le Boutillier is Principal Lecturer in Sociology and the Director of Studies for the Faculty of Arts, Law, and Social Sciences. He has lectured in Sociology and Politics since 1999. As Director of Studies his primary responsibility is managing and monitoring students' academic development.

Shaun's undergraduate teaching specialisms include the sociology of work, social theory, applied ethics, and political theory. He is also the convener of the new MA Sociology course and is responsible for contributing to the courses on social theory and crime in late modernity. Shaun is co-author (with Pip Jones and Liz Bradbury) of the 2011, second edition, of Introducing Social Theory which is published by Polity Press.

Shaun's main research interests lie in the areas of social theory and ethics. His Ph.D., awarded by the London School of Economics, involved a philosophical examination of the relationship between society and the individual. He has written a number of articles on this topic including a publication in the British Sociological Associations' main journal Sociology. His recent work has focused on championing Anthony Giddens' structuration theory whilst critiquing theoretical trends towards critical realism or social emergentism. He is currently working on a sociological contribution to moral philosophy which uses key elements of social theory to explain moral agency.

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