{{short description|British sociologist and anthropologist (1924–2013)}} {{about|the British sociologist and social anthropologist|the Australian Paralympic shooter|Peter Worsley (sport shooter)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use British English|date=January 2013}} '''Peter Maurice Worsley''' (6 May 1924 – 15 March 2013) was a noted British sociologist and social anthropologist. He was a major figure in both anthropology and sociology, and is noted for introducing the term ''Third World'' into English. He not only made theoretical and ethnographic contributions, but also was regarded as a key founding member of the New Left.<ref name="guardian">[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/mar/28/peter-worsley Peel, JDY (2013) Peter Worsley obituary: Sociologist who did much to define the idea of a 'third world', ''The Guardian'', Thursday 28 March] (Accessed April 2013)</ref><ref name="interview">[http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/279/4/Peter_Worsley.doc Peter Worsley: A Life, interviewed by Alan Macfarlane] (Accessed April 2013)</ref>
== Early life and education == Born in Birkenhead, Worsley started reading English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. He served in the British Army as an officer in Africa and India. During this time, he developed his interest in anthropology. After the war, he worked on mass education in Tanganyika and then went to study under Max Gluckman at the University of Manchester. He received his PhD from the Australian National University in Canberra.<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="interview"/>
== Career == He lectured in sociology at the University of Hull and then went on to become the first Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester in 1964.<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="interview"/>
== Awards == Winner of the Curl Bequest Prize (1955) of the Royal Anthropological Institute for ''The kinship system of the Tallensi: a revaluation'' (Published in JRAI 1956, pp. 37–75).<ref name=RAI>{{citation |title=Curl Bequest Prize essays submitted 1951-98 |work=Archives & Manuscripts (MS 188) |date=5 February 2009 |publisher=Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |url=http://www.therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0188-oyal-anthropological-institute-of-great-britain-and-ireland-ms-188/ |access-date=4 October 2010}}</ref>
== Key works == *{{citation |year=1957 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=The Trumpet Shall Sound: A study of 'cargo' cults in Melanesia |place=London |publisher=MacGibbon & Kee. |postscript=Subsequent editions by MacGibbon & Kee, 1968; and Schocken Books, 1968, 1986, & 1987}}. *{{citation |year=1977 |orig-year=1964 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=The Third World |edition=3rd impression, 2nd American |series=Nature of Human Society Series |publisher=Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson |isbn=0-226-90751-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8K77IGLLJAgC |postscript=– introduced that term into the English language}}. *{{citation |year=1970 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=Modern Sociology: Introductory Readings |place=Harmondsworth, UK |publisher=Penguin |isbn=0-14-080221-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/modernsociologyi0000wors }}. *{{citation |year=1970 |editor=Worsley, Peter |editor2=Bechhofer, Frank |editor3=Brown, Richard |editor4=Jeffreys, Margot |editor5=McIntosh, Mary |editor6=Newby, Howard |title=Introducing Sociology |place=Harmondsworth, UK |publisher=Penguin |postscript=Subsequent editions 1973, 1977, 1979 – sold over half a million copies}}. *{{citation |year=1972 |editor=Worsley, Peter |title=Problems of Modern Society: A Sociological Perspective |place=Harmondsworth, UK |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-080291-6 |postscript=Also published 1978 |url=https://archive.org/details/problemsofmodern00wors }}. *{{citation |year=1975 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=Inside China |place=London |publisher=A. Lane |isbn=0-7139-0796-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/insidechina0000wors }}. *{{citation |year=1984 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development |place=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0-226-90754-6 |postscript=. |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/threeworldscultu0000wors_i8x3 }} Subsequent publications by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London), 1984 & 1988. {{ISBN|0-297-78346-7}}. *{{citation |year=1997 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture |place=New York |publisher=The New Press & W.W. Norton |isbn=1-56584-383-5 |postscript=.}} Subsequent publications 1998 & 1999. Alternative {{ISBN|1-56584-555-2}}. *{{citation |year=1982 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=Marx and Marxism |series=Key Sociologists series |publisher=Chichester, UK: Ellis Horwood; London & New York: Tavistock Publications |isbn=0-85312-348-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wakOAAAAQAAJ }} Subsequent publications Routledge 1989, 1990 {{ISBN|0-415-04321-2}}; 2002 {{ISBN|0-415-28537-2}}.
== References == * David Simon (ed) (2006) Fifty Key Thinkers in Development, Routledge *{{citation |year=2008 |author=Worsley, Peter |title=An Academic Skating on thin ice |place=Oxford & New York |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-84545-370-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItYNAKuoFskC}}
== Citations ==
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==External links== * [https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1139306 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 25 February 1989 (video)]
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