Will Atkinson

Will Atkinson is a sociologist specialising in social class. He has researched almost all aspects of it using a wide variety of methods and authored or co-edited several books on the topic. These include Class Inequality in Austerity Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Class in the New Millennium (Routledge, 2017), The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies (Routledge, 2 vols, 2020-22) and his introductory text, Class (Polity, 2015, 2nd ed 2024). Fascinated by the way in which class is woven through individual biographies, he has latterly used the life of Vincent van Gogh as a lens on this.